what sounds more reasonable? a all mighty god poofing everything into creation? or human beings evolving? huh?

Answer 1

Why can't both be reasonable? Is it so impossible to think that God created and through his creation things began to evolve over time? I think that human beings were created by the Lord after the image of God. However, I think that humanity has evolved economically to what it is now. Everything is in continuous motion, i.e. a state of flux.

Answer 2

Your question presumes that reason is the primary quality involved here. It is something many philosophers have tried to do dating to well before Plato.

But those who shut their windows and simply DECIDED how the universe was based on their reason and not based on their observation are not too well heeded now (at least, not for those parts of their work). It doesn't matter whether you find gravity REASONABLE or not... gravity doesn't care. It exists and affects things whether you believe it or not. The same as the entire rest of the universe.

So too with any gods that might be lurking out there. Your belief or lack thereof has no effect on any god's existance. I guarantee it. And vice versa, of course - no amount of belief by itself will 'poof' gods into existance.

Based on the evidence we have, some people will say that one god or another is reasonable, and others will say that they are not. Evolution is mutually exclusive to some gods, but not all, and conversely scientists have pretty much no way to tell if someone has been mucking around with the outcomes of evolution for the billions of years it may have been in progress, either. That particular question will be forever outside of the realm of science.

So you may decide for yourself. I say we let the universe decide which of us is correct, no? Who could ask for more?

Answer 3

That is such a small minded question. Those who believe that everything happened instantly are ignorant, and those who believe things happened without God are also ignorant.

There is evidence for both.

There is nothing that says that God couldn't create the world and there is nothing that says that evolution didn't happen.

But no one has EVER proven or even come close to proving that humans evolved from anything. Sure animals all evolved, but the idea of Macroevolution of humans is based solely on the somewhat resemblance of humans and apes.

Microevolution is definitely obvious in the human skeletons we've found. But genetics points to a point where all living humans have one common ancestor that is modern human and lived only 140,000 years ago, which is not enough for macro evolution (see Mitochondrial Eve). The oldest Homo sapiens sapiens remains found have been estimated to be about 160,000 years old. There has never been a so-called "Missing Link" found.

I'm not saying we didn't evolve from apes, I'm saying the theory isn't based on much, so I would have to say that Creationism seems more credible.

I believe in both. There's no point in asking questions that are so contemptuous, irrational, and illiberal. That goes for both Evolutionists AND Creationists...

Answer 4

Well the truth is they both sound a bit far fetched if you think about it .If you are of the opinion that evolution is more factual than creation then why is that? what is it that proves to you it is truth?
because someone you trust told you so?(scientists)
because a book says this is the way it is? (text books)
isn't that what evos accuse creationists of ?
being naive enough to take as fact what cannot be proven in a lab setting?
taking someones word for it?(spiritual leaders)
believing what you read? (bible)
both evolution and creationism are theories.
In fact evolution is 6-8 different theories non of which can be proven in a lab setting.
therefore whichever theory it is, you choose to believe in, it takes an act of faith to continue to believe in it ,once faced with the lack of hard evidence.

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Answer 5

i prefer to think of evolution as the answer, but i am not so pompous to say that, just because i believe... and that there is overwhelming evidence, that that is the answer. I do not tend to believe in a higher power, but in the short times whe i think to myself "you never know" i always assume that god started life, and let it evolve, or forgot about it or whatver.
But most of the time, im a evolutionist.

Answer 6

I lean toward a combination of the two, but I don't think God "poofs" stuff, God is more of a "zzZZZAP!!!" kinda guy, I think.

I think he put a starter kit down here and we took it from there, for better or worse.

Answer 7

What sounds most likely to me is that evolution is a tool of the Creator. Why do you think these ideas are antithetical (opposite to each other)?

Answer 8

ok heres my beleifs, make what you will of it:
God wanted to have some fun. so he broke into trillions of tiny fragments (us) and made us a universe. he got us started and cached some help along the way. the idea is to go thruogh as many lives as we need to. When we are done, we go back to join the larger God (Tao, Allah, whatever) and there will be a huge party.

Answer 9

This shouldn't even trigger our philosophical radar. There's scientific evidence for one of these things, and not for the other. One belief is based on evidence, and one is based on faith. I bet you know which one makes sense.

Of course, there are people on the opposite side of the argument who are so personally and intimately invested in their viewpoint that they see our arguments as a personal affront, and they attack the argument whether they have a real basis or not to do so.

Answer 10

Does it really matter? We are here to leave the world in a much better place then when we came into it!