Believe in Evolution and the Bible?

Question

I think anyone who cliams to believe in both is contradicting themselves. It completely confuses me.

1. According to the bible, the entire human race is born from Adam and Eve, not evolution. The notion of "original sin" also came from the notorious two.

I've heard the argument "This is just a fairytale, I believe Jesus died for my sins and in Darwin's theory of evolution.

2. Jesus died on the cross to save his people from original sin. The basis of Christianity. How can people dismiss the story of Adam and Eve as fictional when they're whole faith hangs on the original sin they are said to have created??

I'm Atheist btw, and I would love to understand this. It makes no sense to me. Well nothing in terms of religon really does.

Ok, so al lot of people are saying "you don't HAVE to take the bible literally", but my question is really for those who do. "Inhisgrace" is on the right track, how can it be possible to be loyal to both science and your God? They are completely contradictory.

Answer 1

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evolution is nothing more then "slow change" and yes, it happens today, but not in "darwins theory" sorry, i don´t believe in that bunch of "B.S."

Answer 2

I would say that the Bible disproves the Bible. It would challenge the creativity of our best and brightest to come up with some less believable fables. Ignoring the fact that the Bible contradicts itself in more ways than I care to mention, let's examine the level of credibility of its stories compared with classical "mythology," which is where Christianity and other anachronistic belief systems will eventually end up. Let's assume for the moment that you are correct, and evolution and the mountain of evidence and reproducible findings that support it are all a lies, constructed by Satan or whatever you please. How then, do you explain interspecies reproduction? Lions and tigers can and do mate to produce "ligers" and "tigons," each half-lion and half-tiger crossbreeds. What about the mule, half donkey and half horse? There are many, many examples of interspecies breeding, and while I have no doubt that you feel that these are "abominations," how do you explain their existence? The common answer for this argument is that all interspecies offspring are sterile, and cannot reproduce with either parent species or another crossbreed of their own species. This reinforces my point in two ways. Firstly, the fact that a living being can be created through two separate species which CANNOT reproduce seems to indicate that God made a mistake--somehow, he accidentally created dozens of pairs of animals that can interbreed, but whose offspring cannot. Secondly, OF COURSE the visible offspring of interspecies breeding cannot reproduce. Otherwise, they'd be their own species, completely survivable and self-reliant! Of all the varieties of closely-related species we see today, can you say with confidence that NEVER has there been a product of two different species that did not survive and reproduce to become its own species? A species NOT created by God? I highly doubt it. Regardless, evolution has been shown and repeatedly demonstrated, both in the laboratory and in nature. Believing or disbelieving a fact makes it no less a fact--your willful ignorance influences reality in no way. Anyway, this is probably no different than anything you've read in the other answers so far, and I very much doubt you're still reading, being that if you were indeed open to new information, you would have abandoned your archaic beliefs long ago.

Answer 3

Your points are basically valid.
The two major characters in the New Testament Jesus and Paul both treated the Genesis account as literal.

To take it as allegory has implications for their messages which derive from their understanding of Genesis.

And if evolution has been "guided", then much of it which would otherwise fall under the category "it happened" would appear wasteful or even cruel if it was ordained or specifically permitted.
A meteor strike as happenstance, or as act of God?
(recall also Darwin and the parasitic wasps)

The Christian doctrine of "The Fall" is a necessary entity to account for those parts of creation which are manifestly not "Good" in terms of a perfect, powerul loving creator.
A cursed Earth, and a cursed people: Genesis 3.
And, believing in evolution and the bible, how is Genesis 3:16 to be handled? God "worked" evolution to prdouce painful childbirth for women?
The bible and evolution sit uncomfortably together, at best.

Answer 4

You're right...evolution, abiogenesis or cosmic evolution--Big Bang does not fit what the Bible teaches of creation in 6 days roughly 6000 years ago or man being created in the image of God, the original sin and need for a Savior. Any religion based on the infallible truth of the Bible cannot, in good faith, accept evolution or try to make it compatible with the Bible. Some churches try to fit the two together in an attempt to rationalize man's supposed knowledge with God's Word.
Man's knowledge is everchanging, God's knowledge is true and perfect and stays the same. We would do well to attempt to understand it better. If we, as mortal humans, could fully understand God, then He would not be God...he would be an extension of ourselves. He is always a mystery yet has shown parts of Himself and what we need to know in the Bible.

Answer 5

Jesus died over nothing more than being accused of arousing the spirits of down trodden Roman citizens. It's not logical to say that Jesus saved you from anything from a Biblical standpoint. One must remember that the Jews were around prior to Jesus and the story goes that when Moses came down from the Mount he found the folks philandering, and blaspheming all over the place...God punished the Jews right than and there...but it's never made clear what the punishment was/is. God condemned the Jewish people to suffer for the sins of humanity...act as living, breathing pennacne for those sins....Hence Jesus saved nobody. Additionally, God in his forgiving ways didn't take away the ultimate reward for the Jewish people and that's to ascend to Heaven first and keep the Gates. PEACE!

Answer 6

You are lucky to be an atheist.

You are correct that religion is not compatible with evolution science.

Once you know that there is a physical process that leads to the creative aspect of nature you can do without that mystery and all the others.

By the way .... did you hear about the chicken embryo that grew aligator like teeth?

No joke.

Only evolution and genetics can explain it.

Intelligent design must fail completely.

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Answer 7

Thank you for bringing this up. I wonder the same thing. I am a Christian, and there is no way that you can believe in both if you are. The people who claim they do are not Christians. That is your answer. You cannot serve 2 masters. And if they believe this, they are compromising the Word of God, which, they supposedly believe in.
Here. Have a star.
It seems you know more than they do about it!

Answer 8

You're assuming that the details of the Genesis story must be taken literally. Whether you subscribe to the literal story; or accept that cosmology, genetics, geology and paleontology was a bit too much for the intended audience to swallow, so it was couched in the frame of reference of the audience of the time, the message is still the same.

God created Man and Earth and placed man in dominion over the Earth. Man's disobedience separates him from God. God calls Man back to obedience.

Dress it in whatever backdrop you prefer. The message is still the same.

Answer 9

It's not necessary to take the Bible literally, to believe that it was inspired by God. And it's not necessary to believe in abiogenesis without the presence of God, either.

If you spend a lot of time studying, you can find a way to combine the two. However, most people don't give it that much thought.

Answer 10

True if you say you believe the bible and millions of years then you have just lied. The bible is clear that the earth is only around 6,000 years old and the bible should not be compromised to fit such a stupid theory.

Answer 11

Every religion has a story similar to Adam and Eve. It is a story to "try" to explain how we got here when reality is no one really knows for sure the specifics. I believe that science explains the "how" in Gods magnificent creation.