Christians what would be so wrong with believing that God created us by way of Evolution?

Question

And the universe by way of the Big Bang Theory or Nebular Theory?

Answer 1

For myself, only that He said He did it all in 6 days, and my belief that those days, due to the nature of the presentation He gave us, were intended to be understood as 6 periods of 24 hours. Genesis says, "...there was evening and there was morning, the [x] day." Evening to morning and back again occurs in 24 hours. Furthermore, God is, in Genesis, answering for Moses the question Moses posed to Him, in Exodus, "Who shall I say You are when the Hebrews ask 'Who is the Lord that we should follow Him?'?" If you can take the Big Bang and Evolution and fit the whole process into 146 hours, I'll believe anything they propose. I know that many Christians will differ with me on this stance I take, but in the final analysis, I don't care if all the world comes to me telling me that what the Bible says is wrong, I will stand on God's WORD, and call all the world a liar. I will, and I MUST, if I am to call myself by His name. "Put on the whole armor of God so that you might be able to stand against the wiles of the devil, and when you have done all this, STAND." On Christ, the Solid Rock, the Word of God, I STAND...all other ground is quicksand.

Answer 2

There are Christians who believe that. You wouldn't be the only one. I don't believe it, but I do believe that the Earth was being used before man came to it, and that it was a gathering place for intelligent beings before the whole 'man' thing came about.

I am watching a show on TV right now . . . . . Naked Science on National Geographic Channel. They admitted that according to the current ideas on how the universe was formed, the planets Neptune and Uranus shouldn't be there, and that the Asteroid belt should not be where it is. So there are theories all over the place these days, but people have begun to treat them as fact!

Well, as people put on the glasses ( figurative ) of faith in those theories, they have begun to bump into things. At some time people will start to question the accuracy of the glasses, and ask for a new prescription!

Answer 3

Evolution has benefited from a lot of theories. If you mean the most widespread theory of natural selection (Darwin's) then there are notions there that do indeed conflict with Biblical creation stories. But if you mean that a person can change throughout generations, that is true according to the Bible as well. But if you read the stories in the Bible, it sounds like we are actually degenerating, not truly evolving. Or if you will we are evolving into a form of humanity closer to animals than to divinity, as humans were intended to resemble. The problem comes when you assume that a human life has evolved from the same ancestor as an animal life. That assumption - let's be honest evolution is still a theory, i.e. an assumption - is unbiblical. God bless

Answer 4

I do not think it is wrong at all. I am a Christian but I believe in a form of creational evolution which means that we could evolve only from our own species which adapted over time to the environment and culture to what we are today. Sometimes , however I think we have become devolved and are ready to get push back even further than we should.

Answer 5

Because I take the word of God literally and if it says 6 days, it means 6 24 hour days.

Besides, Genesis says that God made the plants in the third day and the sun and moon on the fourth. So if 1 day didn't account for 24 hours and say accounted for 1 million years, then how did the plants survive for a million years without the sun's rays for photosynthesis??

I believe that God's creation does "evolve" by means of adapting to their environment, for example, shorter legs in steep mountainous environments, but not where everything that lives and breathes evolved from one common ancestor.

Answer 6

I've often wondered that myself. When God said, "let there be...." and there was, wasn't that the "big bang". It's the height of arrogance to limit an all powerful being to six 24 hour days. If 1000 years is like the blink of an eye to God, couldn't he have taken 4.5 billion years worth of eye blinks to create everything?

Add this to the mix. The story goes, God rested on the seventh day. The Bible does not say He quit. So, isn't creation still going on via evolution, volcanoes, earthquakes and everything else.

I haven't made up my mind about the existence of God, but I'm sure not going to tell an all powerful being what He can and cannot do.

Answer 7

You are forgettin the definition of evolution: The abiltiy of one speices to adapt to their surroundings so that the occurring offspring will reproduce offspring of their own that will continue to survive in the climate condition they are living in.

You can not evolve into being this way.

Once you are created as the Bible says that we are in the book of Genesis chapters 1 and 2, then you will evlove to reproduce so that the climate conditions do not end your existence.

You evlove brain wise to produce shelter for protection, better hunting techniques, better equipment to help with the every day functions that you come across.

As far as the Big Bang theory goes, its real simple:

God said it, BANG, it was there.

Answer 8

Evolution Under Assault

4 The scientific magazine Discover put the situation this way: “Evolution . . . is not only under attack by fundamentalist Christians, but is also being questioned by reputable scientists. Among paleontologists, scientists who study the fossil record, there is growing dissent from the prevailing view of Darwinism.”1 Francis Hitching, an evolutionist and author of the book The Neck of the Giraffe, stated: “For all its acceptance in the scientific world as the great unifying principle of biology, Darwinism, after a century and a quarter, is in a surprising amount of trouble.”2

5 After an important conference of some 150 specialists in evolution held in Chicago, Illinois, a report concluded: “[Evolution] is undergoing its broadest and deepest revolution in nearly 50 years. . . . Exactly how evolution happened is now a matter of great controversy among biologists. . . . No clear resolution of the controversies was in sight.”3

6 Paleontologist Niles Eldredge, a prominent evolutionist, said: “The doubt that has infiltrated the previous, smugly confident certitude of evolutionary biology’s last twenty years has inflamed passions.” He spoke of the “lack of total agreement even within the warring camps,” and added, “things really are in an uproar these days . . . Sometimes it seems as though there are as many variations on each [evolutionary] theme as there are individual biologists.”4

7 A London Times writer, Christopher Booker (who accepts evolution), said this about it: “It was a beautifully simple and attractive theory. The only trouble was that, as Darwin was himself at least partly aware, it was full of colossal holes.” Regarding Darwin’s Origin of Species, he observed: “We have here the supreme irony that a book which has become famous for explaining the origin of species in fact does nothing of the kind.”—Italics added.

8 Booker also stated: “A century after Darwin’s death, we still have not the slightest demonstrable or even plausible idea of how evolution really took place—and in recent years this has led to an extraordinary series of battles over the whole question. . . . a state of almost open war exists among the evolutionists themselves, with every kind of [evolutionary] sect urging some new modification.” He concluded: “As to how and why it really happened, we have not the slightest idea and probably never shall.”5

9 Evolutionist Hitching agreed, saying: “Feuds concerning the theory of evolution exploded . . . Entrenched positions, for and against, were established in high places, and insults lobbed like mortar bombs from either side.” He said that it is an academic dispute of far-reaching proportions, “potentially one of those times in science when, quite suddenly, a long-held idea is overthrown by the weight of contrary evidence and a new one takes its place.”6 And Britain’s New Scientist observed that “an increasing number of scientists, most particularly a growing number of evolutionists . . . argue that Darwinian evolutionary theory is no genuine scientific theory at all. . . . Many of the critics have the highest intellectual credentials.”7

Answer 9

Creation of Adam a.s. is mentioned in the Bible as well as the Quran. So neither the Christians , nor the Muslims who believe in their books would believe in the theory of evolution.

By the way where is the missing link. You see monkeys around and you see men around, where are the monkeys in the process of becoming humans.

Bible

1 Corinthians 15:45
And so it is written, The first man, Adam, was made a living being; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit.  

1 Timothy 2:13
For Adam was first formed, then Eve;  

Quran , Sura 3. Al-I'Imran
59
In fact the example of the birth of Isa ( Jesus) in the sight of Allah is like the example of Adam who had no father and
mother, whom He created out of dust, then said to him: "Be" and he was.


As far as BIG BANG theory and expanding univese is concerned it is mentioned in the

QURAN Sura 51. Az-Zariyat
47
And it is We who have built the universe with power; and , verily, it is We who are steadily expanding it.

Quran Sura 41. Ha-Mim
11
Then He turned towards the sky, which was but SMOKE, He said to it and to the earth: 'Come forward both of you, willingly or unwillingly,' and they submitted: 'We shall come willing'.

Now we observe by hubble photos, new stars and solar systems forming in buble of gas and smoke. as mentioned in the Quran . This proves that Quran is the word of GOD.


Read the Quran once in your life time and check if it is the word of GOD or not. The facts mentioned in the Quran about creation of the universe and us humans indicate it is indeed from OUR CREATOR.

You have only ONE LIFE to check.

Answer 10

Very wrong! That's what takes place in the animals and other created forms of earthly lives except Man.

When Man accept evolution and lives under that system - they also turn into beastly human being. You can see many among your peers who hold to this demonic lies behaving like one, can't you?

Wake up and look around if you have not!

I rather choose not to be evolved but rather be transformed by the renewing of my mind and be changed into the image of the Son of God; which we are!