Can anybody cite me a passage from the bible that refutes evolution?

Answer 1

Without faith, nothing the Bible says is going to make any difference. But...

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. ALL THINGS WERE MADE BY HIM; AND WITHOUT HIM WAS NOT ANY THING MADE THAT WAS MADE. ... And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." John 1:1-3,14

Answer 2

Why do you need to refute evolution. If you make a day of creation, and NOBODY knows how long such a day is, equal to around 700, 000,000 years then there is no real conflict to speak of with evolution on Earth.

In any case there is an important omission in the presentation very first verse of Genesis, that says 'In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth', whereas the original Greek, from which all translations were/are made, says 'In the beginning of God PREPARING the Heavens and the Earth'.

Preparing means planning, organising, and all that sort of thing. Its quite reasonable that such a thing would take 6 days. It then says nothing about what time scale that plan was carried out in.

When I was obliged to go to Sunday School at the age of 8, we had to read this verse and say what we understood by it. I said I don't understand anything. It does not say in the beginning of what and it does not say who or what God is. I got no satisfactory explanation, no doubt the reason I refused to believe in Religion for 40 years.

5O years later, in discovering that important word, 'preparation', was missing, then that answered the first part. Since, divine inspiration has given me the answer to the second part, but I would be incapable of expressing it in words.

Answer 3

This is what I think.

God is an omnipotent, omnipresent, all powerful being who generated the universe. now when we visualize such a being, why would 'He' choose to follow a timetable (of 7 days), when a day is measured by one rotation of the earth on its axis. a measurement that obviously wasn;t in place until well into the creation of the universe.

Day 1 "God created the heavens and the earth... and Said Let there be Light." = Big bang, universe comes into existence.

Day 2 "...Separate one body from the other", = the stars and the earth formed

Day 3 "The water under the sky gathered... and the Dry land appeared." "The earth brought forth every kind of plant."= plant life begins

Day 4 "God made two lights... To shed light upon the earth",= the plants filtered the Air, making the sky visible, and the air clear so the sun and moon light reached the earth.

Day 5 "all kinds of swimming creatures, with which the water teems" = Animal life begins in the sea

Day 6 ""All kinds of wild animals, all kinds of cattle, and all kinds of creeping things" = Life has moved beyond the see, and onto land.

God said "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness"(why is god speaking in plural?) Now, what if instead of pointing and 'Zort' we and Adam, God takes the ancestral human creature, and installs in it the spark of life and creativity, that God possesses, and it is this spark (the soul perhaps) that is in the image and likeness of God, not the humanoid form.

Answer 4

Definatly Genesis 1:1

Answer 5

Genesis 1:21 .So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind.

Genesis 1:24 And God said,' Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds.....'

The point is that animals were created by their various types and kinds all at the same time, there is no room here for evolutionary supposition that they came from the same starting point and somehow became different later on.

Answer 6

The Genesis 1 creation account conflicts with the order of events that are known to science. In Genesis, the earth is created before light and stars, birds and whales before reptiles and insects, and flowering plants before any animals. The true order of events was just the opposite. Genesis 1:1-2:3

Answer 7

The first few verses of the Holy Bible itself, but I do not think it actually excludes evolution because it also mentions other races later on and therefore 7 days can not be the literal truth

Answer 8

In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth. Genesis 1:1

Answer 9

Rom 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. ~KJV

Answer 10

Genesis states that the world was created in a week.

Also, if you trace the dates of individual and events chronologically back through the old testament you will see that creation occurred some 6,000 years ago.

This obviously makes no sense if you appreciate that evolution occurs over billions of years!