2007-10-13 22:36:23 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Invisible_Flag: That might be true if the evidence was on the side of Christianity... but it isn't.
2007-10-13 22:43:59 · update #1
It is not fatal as christianity itself seems to evolve as society goes along. Do you really think jesus would recognize the watered down, non 7 day creation, evolution accepting concoction his "followers" have turned it into today?
2007-10-13 23:17:12 · answer #1 · answered by Gawdless Heathen 6 · 1⤊ 4⤋
No. It's only fatal to one of the "proofs" of God's existence that was an argument from ignorance only - "we can't explain how biological diversity came about so it must have been by a supernatural process".
Most Christians have no problem with science, including evolutionary theory. It's only a particular group, prominent in the US, that feels that if Genesis cannot be read as literal history then Christianity bcomes meaningless. This is not the position of most Christians.
2007-10-14 21:54:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evolution must be fatal to Christianity and Christians must realise it otherwise why are they so adamant that evolution is unreal even in the face of all the evidence...
So I imagine they are caught between a rock and a hard place these people who want so much to cling to religious belief yet realise because of evolution that what they want so much to believe is utter tosh.
Evolution forces people either to acknowledge Biblical error or to bury their heads further in the sand ...a position that tends to make people look more like asses than ostriches..
2007-10-14 06:08:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
It is fatal to Christianity, because it discredits the 7 day creation. However, one can still believe in an old earth and The bible at the same time, The earth was already here in a state of chaos when God's spirit hovered over the water and said "let there be light".
One can also still believe in the Big bang theory to a degree and still believe in the Genesis account. Our universe is still expanding. And the sun being the center of this expansion, clearly denotes it was the Sun's initial combustion that caused "The Big Bang" and the continued expansion like a rock being dropped in pond. Now you can argue whether it was a supreme Being that initiated the suns's combustion or some other external cause, but it doesn't conflict with the Genesis Account like Evolution does.
2007-10-14 05:51:37 · answer #4 · answered by Squidbiscuit 2 · 4⤊ 3⤋
How could it be? The theory of evolution changes absolutely nothing about Christianity. Most highly educated Christians could vouch for that. The fact that people, for some reason, think that evolution is the ultimate (or one of the ultimate) deciding factors in the debate over the existence of God, is pure ignorance coming from either side of the argument. While the religious crowd is unwilling to accept just how insignificant humanity is in relation to our size and place in this massive Universe, those on the other side of the debate are unwilling to accept the possibly of God existing, on the grounds that they expect some large omnipotent being in the form of a man (or whatever) to be present and accounted for, in order for the proof to be there..
2007-10-14 05:47:20 · answer #5 · answered by forgottenmorals 4 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Scientific research is fatal not only to Christianity, Islam and Judaism but to all other god-based philosophies. Evolution is just one are of several that are and will become more and more in direct conflict with scripture and belief in divine beings.
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2007-10-14 11:26:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My answer will be no. It will certainly cause some to lose faith in the creative God and so for them it is 'fatal'. Still according to the Bible it is God who will re-create the world and at that point, I think evolution will pretty much lose it's grip on everyone.
In order for evolution to be fatal to Christianity it would have to win out the hearts and minds of such a large majority of people that within the most fundamental denominations creation is not spoken of. The power of God will stem that tide I believe.
So it would seem the argument is going to carry on until... God shows everyone the truth.
2007-10-14 07:24:43 · answer #7 · answered by thankyou "iana" 6 · 3⤊ 4⤋
As the vast majority of Christians have no problem with science including evolution, I don't see how it can be fatal to the religion. It is fatal, however, to Old Testament Fundamentalists and other Bible literalists - but then logic and common sense are fatal to them, you don't need science to show how silly they are.
2007-10-14 05:46:41 · answer #8 · answered by tentofield 7 · 5⤊ 2⤋
because it is fatal to them, they view it as a threat. Therefore, they will do whatever they can to get rid of evolution. After all, the catholic church sent Galileo to prison for stating the sun was the center of our solar system.
If they continue getting their way evolution along with science will be hindered and we WILL revert back to the Dark Ages
2007-10-14 07:27:31 · answer #9 · answered by Imagine No Religion 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Why is it christians fear the truth? why is it so many would twist it to deny it... Nature is the only laws of earth and the laws of life itself... christians are hung up on the "super natural" no matter what we do... evolution occurs... there was a great evolution in humanity about a century ago.. can you see it... we don't get to understand any truth when so many have oposed it for so long.. but the laws of nature are sturdy and strong. it is much easier for it to destroy the whole human race than it is to accomodate it by now.. any illnesses developed in the ocean the wilderness out where humans don't rule.... never last long for that is what nature does and how evolution occurs.. correcting, cleaning, healing... but humans and their religions have become a burden to nature... so nature is simply refusing to heal us till either we give up religion or we are extinct... evolution and natural selection nature has never stopped learning
2007-10-14 05:56:49 · answer #10 · answered by Gypsy 2 · 5⤊ 2⤋