Question For All Christians.?

Question

I am a Christian and I DON'T believe in Evolution. The reason I'm saying this is because I just read some answers to a question abut the subject and I was shocked. So the question is how many of you christians actually believe in the big bang theory or in evolution? and what religion do you belong to or go to? Looking for small reasons why u believe that way too.

Ok first I thank you for all the answers. But by asking for small explanations I would also like your sources. I like this saying, "A reason with out a source, is pointless." -I don't mean to offend anyone this is just my opinion. In order for me to consider a best answer I need sources so I can see for myself also. Thanx again.

Answer 1

I used to think that both could be possible - that there could be some truth to both creationism and evolution. But the more I study my Bible, the more I don't see how that could be.

Genesis 1:26-28:

26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground. 27 God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."

To me this states clearly that the fish and birds were here first and that God then created the man to rule over them. If evolution were true, I feel like it would not have ceased at humans.

Answer 2

I think we have to be very careful how we Christians use the term evolution and define it carefully so as not to be misunderstood.

Animals can and do change- sometimes radically. I breed animals and I know....I work for certain changes in my animals. Similarly, it's clear that animals have the ability (God-given, I believe) to adapt to their environments and that animals that don't adapt usually don't survive to breed. Over time, these isolated gene pools create animals that may differ greatly from their cousins.

When it comes to saying that macro-evolution has been proven, that's when I draw the line. I don't believe that macro-evolution has been proven. Paleontology and evolution aren't as water-tight as the general public is often led to believe. (Most subjects are simplified for the public.) Even paleontologists disagree about things. (I am a museum curator. We used to have a paleontology dept. with over a million artifacts in our museum's basement. Our paleontologist found a fossil that caused some debate.)

Paleontology is an historical science, not a pure science, and a person's world-view is going to color his/her findings. If he believes that the Bible is a reliable historical document and that Genesis is intended to be an accurate account of creation, then he (as a Paleontologist) are going to say "Wow, what a lot of wonderful animals that God created used to live on Earth!" If he doesn't accept that God created the different "kinds" of animals in the beginning, then he's going have to start looking around for another way to explain where life came from and how all the diverse kinds of animals appeared.

I suppose one thing that bothers me is that "modern" science is often very narrow-minded. It refuses to admit that there may be beings, substances, forces or energies out there that we simply don't have the ability to detect yet. It's as if humans, who've been doing "science" for all of a few hundred years, suddenly have all knowledge and answers based on our crude observations and instruments. We seem to forget that it wasn't too many decades ago no one had ever seen a virus or DNA...we simply didn't have the instruments to detect them.

Sorry I've rambled on this. I am a Protestant Christian, by the way.

Answer 3

The big bang theory is entirely compatible with every version of creationism that I know of. Even young-earth creationists need only disagree about when it happened--its existence is merely the event of Genesis 1:1.

Even before science had the means to seriously question the literal interpretation of the creation account, theologians have doubted whether the events of Genesis 1 should be taken literally. St. Augustine is a famous example of this. This is not a denial of the truth of scripture; it is an acknowledgement of the limitations of human language and understanding. God may reveal to us through literary device what we are incapable of understanding directly, or what our language is not capable of expressing literally.


Evolutionary theory presents two basic problems for Christians:

1. Many of its proponents insist that it is an undirected, random phenomenon. A Christian cannot accept this position because it contradicts the biblical account of God willfully and deliberately creating all the different kinds of plants and animals.

2. The manner in which our redemption plan is described in scripture depends on the existence of a literal Adam and Eve. On the one hand, one might argue that evolution could be true *except* for humans (I've heard some people say this), but the obvious counterpoint is that a scientific theory with exceptions is not a sound theory at all.


The claim that evolution is undirected and random is a philosophical claim, not a scientific one. Even if evolution is true, there is no particular reason God couldn't be directing it. Nevertheless, the problem of Adam and Eve presents a serious theological challenge for those wishing to reconcile creation with evolution.


Another old-earth/big-bang theory of creation is progressive creationism. According to this theory, God directed the development of all celestial bodies, and brought up and put down living species throughout Earth's history according to the needs of the time. This theory of creation is compatible with the scientific theory of punctuated equilibrium, which posits that macroscopic changes in species occur in bursts instead of gradually. According to progressive creationism, evolution is not the mechanism of life's development, but rather the outcome, with macroscopic changes in species being directed by God through a different, undiscovered mechanism.

Progressive creationism has the distinct theological advantage of allowing for the possibility of a literal Adam and Eve, and it upholds the biblical account of God's deliberate, willful creation of all things.

Answer 4

I don't believe that life began on it's own. I don't believe that the humans evolved from apes or fish. I don't believe in the evolutionary principle that says life began as a single organism and grew by chance and dumb luck to create what we have today.
I don't deny that there have been changes and adaptations within species for millions of years. Carbon dating of dinosaur bones reveals that dinosaurs existed long before the first human fossil. Nevertheless, God and evolution don't have to be seperate. God created life. He made the earth where there was nothing and began life on this earth. What form the life took, I don't know. Life then continued forward, changing to meet the purposes and ends that God had. Humans were created special, adapted, perhaps, based on a similar form of animal, but given the unique set of abilities and intellegence that we have today.

Answer 5

I am a non-denominational protestant. I do not believe in evolution. Truth be told, there is this thing out there called the Scientific Method, which is the standard for developing scientific laws. Evolution and Creationism (ID) will never be a law, as they cannot adhere to the guidelines established. Now some have taken it a step further and claimed evolution to be a law just for the heck of it, but I do not subscribe to that as I still adhere to the guidelines established...if Christians were so inclined we could just make ID a law too. I do not use the Bible as a guide, per se, to invalidate Evolution...I allow science to do it for me.

Answer 6

Hi Tony...welcome! :)

I myself do not believe in what the evolutionists believe as to the creation of the earth and universe, etc.....However, many things on this earth "evolve" due to changes of climate and many other factors, and, simply watching a tadpole or a caterpillar "evolve" into their adult form shows that God is no stranger to the sciences, lol.

I had recently read a book called "301 Startling Proofs & Prophecies....Prooving God Exists" and had googled it to see what else came up about it and found the book online in PDF format, free for all to read :)

http://fool4given.com/books/301proofs.pdf

The book has many examples of answers for evolutionist type questions that are looked at by a scientific viewpoint about the existance of God. They may not be satisfactory answers to those whom are non-believers, but, they seem to be answers that would make someone THINK if nothing else. :)

I do not belong to any church denomination...I am a loving child of our Father God, and a blessed, reborn, Spirit filled member of the Body of Christ :)

Answer 7

It does not matter whether you believe in it or not. It still happened and is still happening.

You can chose not to believe in Mount Everest. It does not mean that the mountain will disappear.


Luckily for you the scientists know this and are using it to design the next set of antibiotics and other medicines, treatments and technologies based on evolutionary theory.

Answer 8

Evolution is as much a religion as any other. it is disguised as science but in science things are proven. that is not the case here. In the zeal to remove a creator they have accepted the dumbest set of lies know to man. Remember the "fool has said in his heart there is no God."

Answer 9

they are actually not Jews by using fact Jew's don't have self assurance the messiah has come yet. they don't have self assurance Jesus so believing in Jesus and announcing your Jewish needless to say contradicts one yet another.... this is unhappy that there are those Evangelist Christians that decision themselves "Jews". supply up this prepare now, your disgracing the two Judaism and Christianity.

Answer 10

I believe in evolution. I just happen to believe also that htere is a Master Scientist behind it.

The two, faith and reason, need not collide.