species of men....like cave men.........etc........???
I am Christian, and I certainly do think they both can exist
ANYTHING is possible with God!
2007-11-06 05:53:10 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If you read Genesis Chapter 1, you'll notice a couple of things. 1, there's a time gap between verse one and verse two? What does that lead to? That could be the time when dinosaurs exists and maybe the Preadamic (prehistoric humans) race as well.
When you flip to verse two, you have all of a sudden water everywhere, that could be signs of angelic warfare (Satan was the Archangel Lucifer back then). And wars like this isn't just going to leave a little dent in the world, it destroyed all living species as well, and submerged everything underwater.
There's an interesting note, when God created the animals, he just said it, and they popped up. So that leaves it open that God allowed evolution in animals. When God created man, however, it was a different story. Man was made like Michelangelo making the Statue of David. It was made carefully, and animals? There's no evidence pointed that God made them the same way he made man, and if He did that, that would completely contradicted God's glory.
The real glory is how he managed to allow them to adapt and mutate according to the ever changing world. God Himself isn't affected by it, but He's well aware that animals are. Man is perfect the way he is, ever adapting and willing to change.
2007-11-08 02:12:20 · answer #1 · answered by Martin Y 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you, as a Christian, accept the Bible as the true Word of God as it is written and translated from the original texts, then you must accept the creation acount in Genesis as the true explanation of how the universe was created in 6 literal days around 6000 years ago...not evolved over billions of years, including how man was "created" in God's image, not evolved from a common ape ancestor as evolution theory explains. If man is just another animal, there would be no sin and no need of a Savior. Animals do not sin, they don't know right from wrong....man does. Evolution theory is an attempt to explain the natural world without need of a creator God and subsequently, no need to follow His rules or will....it states that all life forms came from earlier descendants with modification over great periods of time. The Bible's Genesis account of creation states that God is the being that "created" everything from nothing by speaking it into being through the Word, which is Jesus.
Either one belief or the other is true...there is no middle ground regardless of what some churches teach in an attempt to fit them together. It does no glory to God to doubt His Word.
2007-11-06 06:51:24 · answer #2 · answered by paul h 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well evolution does exist, so I guess the answer is yes. Evolution does exist, and Christianity exists. Now not everyone accepts evolution, and not everyone believes in Christianity.
2007-11-06 06:02:04 · answer #3 · answered by Take it from Toby 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Intelligence is an emergent property. this is trouble-free and nicely understood that non-linear platforms (i.e. notably much each thing) have emergent residences that are no longer as we communicate obvious except you build or simulate the device intimately. "Intelligence can't come into being." What a naive fact, how else does the intelligence of a baby blossom? It does not exist as sperm & egg. "No quantity of time, organic selection, and possibility can create intelligence out of no longer something." Out of no longer something? Oh, the creationist's dishonesty shows itself now! no person claims we got here from no longer something.
2016-10-15 06:14:05 · answer #4 · answered by sander 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The important part is to phase out Christianity. Evolution doesn't really matter. What is more important is where we are going -not where we came from.
2007-11-06 06:01:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
if you take an ultra-literal interpretation of genesis, they can't exist together.
if you think of genesis as an allegory or something similar they can go together. most christians I know fall in this category.
most on Y/A are of the first.
2007-11-06 05:59:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Slide the first eleven chapters of Genesis over to the 'allegory' column, and there are no problems at all.
2007-11-06 05:59:47 · answer #7 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i believe that God created man and woman in his image. i don't believe that God's image is an ape and/or monkey.
i believe that God gave man to ability to evolve mentally. a 100 years ago we didn't have some of the medical tools that we have today why, because man has mentally evolved. i believe in evolution in that stand point. not even 70 years ago we have blood transfusions. because of man's ability through God...we have the ability to help people medically and scientifically. .
2007-11-06 05:59:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
well god made man in his image. He also gave us free will. Does that not mean that our cells also have free will. Cannot our cells change.
favorite saying "if you believe in evolution then your hairy back says that i am more evolved than you are"
2007-11-06 06:59:35 · answer #9 · answered by Matthew S 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Evolution is a fact, and it goes on as we speak, regardless of mythology or superstition...
2007-11-06 05:57:05 · answer #10 · answered by Lex Fok B.M.F. 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋