Evolution & Intelligent Design, is there a compromise?

Question

I think there is a compromise but some folks are refusing to be open minded to new ideas and possibilities.

I think the world is about 5 billion years old, and I think God also made the world in 6 days, resting on the seventh day. How can I reconcile both beliefs? Simple. God's days are not the same as our days. Maybe we are in the middle of God's day 8 (whatever) after he started to make the world?

Comments anyone?

Well, scientists claim the universe was made about 14 billion years ago. So if true, then that could have been God's day one and he started the earth way back then, or maybe the scientists are wrong? I don't know. I just think that the scientists are right with many things including the age of the earth and re: dinosaurs not being around when people were. I also think we did evolve from an ape like creature, but maybe God did not give us souls till 6,000 years ago. The first souls were given to Adam and Eve. Hey, it could have been this way, or maybe not. It is fun to think of the possibilities though, eh?

Answer 1

Whatever is written in the past is subject for revisions and amendments. An expert can make a mistake as well and findings are based on the materials gathered at present times. If you are talking about the design in terms of infrastructure and the likes, I believe that is subject for reinvention and evolution is somewhat determined by unnatural circumstance. What is natural should remained natural because the origin has its purpose and balance. An intelligent design is synthetic or man-made. Compromise is made not intended for destruction and for benefit of the majority and not for selfish reason. A mountain is created for it's own purpose and all other natural resources as well. That's why the world loses it's balance because of some intelligent design by men.

Answer 2

I can see the idea of Evolution being shaped by a conscious Creator, whether it's Yod Hay Vey Hay or aliens who set things in motion so that they could come back in a couple of billion years and make crop circles. Substitute "Age" for "Day" and you'd be in the ballpark.

But some obvious bugs in the human makeup, the vermiform appendix, non regenerating nerve tissue, wisdom teeth, the gene for male pattern baldness and--not least--a distressing tendency of the knees to bend in the presence of Tyrants, argue strongly against the designer being intelligent.

Which supports the idea that it was the same aliens who make crop circles, buzz lover's lanes and pick up people in order to probe them and then put them back with fuzzy memories. Or a really stupid God--which would explain a lot of humankind's relationship problems with Him.

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But to answer your actual question, no. Fundies--Christians and Athiests alike wouldn't be Fundies if they were capable of compromise.

Answer 3

The point is that a person can believe that God had a hand in creating evolution, but quite another to teach it in schools to children families that don't buy it....it's called religion and it's based on the unprovable, so is simply based in a personal faith...it can't be proved, so it belongs in churches, not schools. If you let this stuff into the schools, then the next thing will be that man walked alongside dinosaurs (which some believe). I have heard many fundamenatal Christians talk of this, and it really boils down to the fact that they think that if everyone does not agree with them, it is somehow offensive to them and must be eliminated. Don't let logic be eliminated from schools

Answer 4

So do you believe that all of creation was created 5 billion years ago? The dinosaurs, the trilobites and all the other primitive lifeforms co-existed with all the modern lifeforms that exist today? And the modern lifeforms we see today are just survivors of a really long 5 billion year struggle?


Or do you believe that God actively replaces the extinct lifeforms with "more evolved" lifeform? Sort of like a continual creation?

Answer 5

I think that by compromising that part of the bible you might as well go ahead and cut and paste with the rest of it. With Creationism God has complete power, however in theistic evolution He is not the driving force. And in the original text of Genesis the word Yom is used for day. And with that word in its context it means LITERALLY one 24 hour day cycle. You have to remember that the ideas that the world is billions of years old is an aetheistic idea, and once the flaws are seen in that what would you have left to stand on? Check out www.AnswersInGenesis.com , check out the get answers section. Ken Ham is a really smart guy. Soli Deo Gloria

Answer 6

I think the best compromise is we focus on the one that has any supporting evidence. There is of course no evidence,ever,of intelligent design. So I say we forget about that one,and focus on how things actually occur in the real world. Or at least have the "intelligent design" people quit trying to poison other peoples kid's heads with their junk. If they want their own kids to grow up stupid,that's their right,but why try to teach it to other peoples kids?

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Answer 7

You can reach a compromise in your own mind if you really want to. The 4.54 billion year old figure is based upon scientific analysis. It MIGHT be adjusted should any shortcomings be found in the scientific technique. The 6 day figure is based on the Bible.

Scientific analysis is not going to change based upon the Bible. The Bible is not going to change based upon scientific evidence. The only place you can reach a compromise is in your own mind.

Answer 8

first start with there is no god.... then understand that all things on earth emit information.. usually complaints which nature solves.. one thing at a time ... from rocks to birds to trees to waters animals and bugs.. all emitting information.. and as nature resolves issues and seeks answers evolution occurs.. humans evolved to help nature understand what the effect of it's actions are.. We have the capacity to hear, understand and interpret and convey what we see... how ever early humans found nature to be gullible... the laguage nature uses or the energy emitting from all things we refer to as spirit.. so instead of being fair and honest with nature these people manipulated it into doing their bidding... this is the foundation of religion.. humans have been hurting nature for a long time and have gained power over nature through religion... religions are based on lies ... first of which is eternal life... nature does not allow for eternal life..therefore the humans could not keep the promise of it... so eventually eternal life turned into life after death something people had no way of verifying... religions in effect destroy the balance of nature and can severly damage the earth... all failures in nature are do to the manipulation through religions... Nature has found many allies over the years to confront and condemn religions but the catholics and the christians have always been fast at making war and murdering people calling them evil.. heretics and witches inventing lies to support their claims.. today nature has several allies...working against religion... the information of evolution comes from nature, that is why the christians are harsh judges of it... as our legal systems become more reflective of producing justice the christians become more and more disadvantaged... the less they are capable of distroying, misleading and derailing the information nature relates to us the more we will understand the world around us... the next volley of information that will come to us is the information to weaken and destroy religion... we can understand but we must not give into the smoke and mirrors the christians throw at us... for they have been found to be the most aggressive of all.

Answer 9

Intelligent Design does not inherently contain any ideas on Creation - it doesn't even explicitly identify the Intelligent Designer. It simply states that there are logical criteria for discerning intelligent design from random chance. The real question is whether or not Creationism is compatible with Evolution, and if so, how.

Answer 10

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