Do you not buy into the belief that evolution disproves gods?

Question

I believe we evolved, but I don't believe it disproves the existence of any gods. How do you feel about it?

(I still don't believe in gods anyway :)

Answer 1

Really, you have to be correct and evolution is still occurring. If mankind is still around in a few thousand years, our little toes may be relics of the past. However, no aspect of evolution has any relationship to the existence of a God. I have a concept of God that is quite different than the mainstream, although I do like Rumi's reference to God as "the Beloved." I see my God as a higher power that is the essence of universal consciousness. I accept all faiths as valid including the absence of belief, which is, of course, simply a different belief system. I was not put on this earth to stand in judgment of others or their faith or lack thereof. However, how evolution can be disputed is beyond reason. No one has to believe we descended from apes. That's still only a theory. (Although you haven't met some of my family:) ) We know that animals have adapted to the absence of light in caves. Our skin tones have adapted to the presence of sun in our climate zones. Our bodies today are quite different than the wealthiest and most well-nourished men and women of medieval Europe. Still, despite all the evidence, some believe there are only 2 options: 1) evolution or 2) intelligent design. Why can intelligent design not be the same as evolution? It would be an awfully weak god to be unable to also design a scheme of evolution. At the invitation of one of the posters, I did look at his/her questions and answers. "Nothing to see there folks. Move along."

Answer 2

Evolution is a theory and doesn't prove anything or disprove anything. The existence of dinosaur bones proves that the dinosaurs existed but doesn't do much to support a theory that there was some progressive improvement or changes to those creatures and that they turned in to something else. In fact there are no intermediate creatures' skeletons which you would expect to find if evolution was real - there should be a lot of the intermediate forms but there aren't, which is why evolutionists later came up with the punctuated equilibrium theory - because of lack of scientific evidence for progressive evolution.

Answer 3

No, evolution does no longer rapidly disprove god. What it does, nevertheless - is take god out of the equation while it consists of dwelling creatures and the existence of existence (or perhaps human understanding). each step in scientific progression has moved god added into the obscure - and it has taken humanity added removed from the midsection of the universe. First we concept we've been particular... we've been real in the path of the universe. grew to become out to be incorrect. Now, we are sorting out that we are if truth be told merely animals - and there is amazingly little (scientifically) that makes us diverse from different animals... and so as that added pushes us from the midsection - it makes us un-particular. The conflict over evolution right this moment mirrors the conflict with reference to the midsection of the universe/image voltaic device. The info has continuously pointed in direction of a heliocentric variety... yet faith fought it vehemently as that certainty dwindled the fee of religion.

Answer 4

It does not disprove God or gods. All it proves is that a story in the bible is an allegory to creative power, which was never have thought to have been fact until the recent fundamentalist movement.

I feel like God or gods and evolution are not inconsistent, neither negates the other.

I don't care if you believe in gods or not. My question is why did you feel the need to say you don't? When I amswer or ask question I don't feel the need to announce my beliefs unless it is directly related to the question.

Answer 5

Evolution is the God Yahweh's physical history of creating life for as far back as mankind can count the years. Modern science will soon prove Yahweh exists through the theory of evolution and at the same time disprove Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

Answer 6

Yes it does disprove God. Because the Bible is the word of God. In the bible god said he created the world in six days, and that Adam and Eve were created from mud and that Eve came from Adam's rib and some would even say that the dinosaur and people lived together in harmony and by the way people lived to be thousands years old.

Now evolution proves otherwise. Religious people are a dying breed. They are doing their best to hold on. So sad.

Answer 7

Evolution makes no claim one way or the other about a deity, or even the origin of life (abiogenesis is a separate fact), only how it changes over time.

Certain religious texts, however, remove their god from the mix by contradicting science. For instance, Genesis 1:24 cannot be reconciled with evolution, if we take "kind' to be the bronze age desert nomad's equivalent of "species".

Answer 8

It doesn't disprove the existence of gods as a general concept, it just disproves the existence of gods that contradict it.

Answer 9

There are too many gods and systems of theology that people have imagined in order to give you a correct answer.

All we can say for sure is that the facts and theory of evolution disprove many theological creation stories.

Answer 10

As an atheist, I WISH that the theory of evolution was a disproof of the existence of gods, but it isn't. The TOE has nothing to say regarding the existence of gods.