Evolution vs. Creationism...what do you believe??

Question

Do you believe in strictly evolution or just creationism? Or do you think they connect and meet somewhere in the middle?

I am a Biology major and a devout Christian, and i usually do not overthink about these 2, i just know what i believe. I believe there is a God and that he created the universe, but hte part where people attack(word usage?) or question me is about 'how can you believe in evolution,...what about adam and eve and the 'fact' that they then filled the world with people?'

thats where i'm having trouble..I think that God meant for evolution to happen, but it's hard with the whole adam and eve thing..

ps. don't tell me that i'm wrong for believing in God, there's nothign you can say that will question my faith and belief in him.

Answer 1

there is no faith involved in understanding biology and the evidence to support evolution

creationism is a term coined to refer to the creation story in Genesis

evolution explains how species change over time through reproduction and exchange of genetic material with many processes at work affecting these changes

It doesn't tell us how the earth was created or if God did it or not.

I'm tired ot this question being asked here.

Get an education please.

Answer 2

Many evolutionists assume we don't believe in natural selection. But as Dr. Terry Mortenson has said, “Natural selection is the God-designed method of preserving representatives of the original created kinds.”

And as the Dutch botanist, Hugo de Vries, said, “Natural selection may explain the survival of the fittest, but it cannot explain the arrival of the fittest.” That statement is just as true today.

Natural selection is a logical process that anyone can observe (and it was actually a creationist named Edward Blyth who first wrote about it in 1835–37, before Darwin). We can look at the great variation in an animal kind and see the results of natural selection. For instance, wolves, coyotes, and dingoes have developed over time as a result of natural selection operating on the information in the genes of the dog kind.

But there are limits. For instance, you can’t breed a dog to the size of an elephant, much less turn it into an elephant. As Dr. Ray Bohlin said, “For essentially every trait, although it usually harbors some variability, there has always been a limit. Whether the organisms or selected traits are roses, dogs, pigeons, horses, cattle, protein content in corn, or the sugar content in beets, selection certainly has an effect. But all selected qualities eventually fizzle out. Chickens don't produce cylindrical eggs. We can't produce a plum the size of a pea or a grapefruit. There are limits to how far we can go.”

Natural and artificial selection can only operate on the information already contained in the genes. The different dogs we see today have resulted from a rearrangement or loss of information from the original dog kind. That is why you can breed wolves to get to chihuahuas, but you can’t breed chihuahuas to get to wolves. The new breeds of dogs have much less genetic information and variability.

And the thing is, what are they? Dogs. What were they? Dogs. What will they be? Dogs. The same could be said for Darwin’s finches, peppered moths, and so forth. There is a big difference between subspeciation (variation within a kind) and transspeciation (change from one kind to another).

Natural selection explains how the dogs can adapt and survive in different environments, not where the dogs came from in the first place.

They like to point to bacteria, but as Dr. Carl Wieland said, “Bacteria actually provide evidence against evolution. Bacterial populations multiply at incredibly high rates. In only a matter of a few years, bacteria can go through a massive number of generations, equivalent to millions of years in human terms. Therefore, since we see mutation and natural selection in bacterial populations happening all the time, we should see tremendous amounts of real evolution happening. However, the bacteria we have with us today are essentially the same as those described by Robert Koch a century ago. In fact, there are bacteria found fossilized in rock layers, claimed by evolutionists to be millions of years old, which as far as one can tell are the same as bacteria living today.”

Answer 3

It is important in this type of discussion to distinguish knowledge from belief. If you believe something, then it is from lack of knowledge. I know Nigeria exists, I do not need to believe it exists. I know evolution is valid, I do not need to believe in it. I understand it. Creationism however lacks any mechanism to come to knowledge about it. The particular forms of current Creationism and Intelligent Design however can be disproven. That does not mean that all forms of a Creationism could be disproven, just the form out in the public at this moment.

I do not completely reject that there could be a deity, it is just that it is irrelevant. The existence or non-existence of a deity would not alter my decisions or moral choices. It certainly deserves no worship as no deity has produced any evidence of any positive contribution to humanity and certainly the followers of the variety of deities do not show that their deity deserves any special preference.

I do not think they meet in the middle. When I was a Christian I tried to make them meet. The problem is that the math and science of evolution really point to the absence of any creator at all. There isn't really anything to support the idea of a creator, except the bible and the koran. Many religions are without a creator.

The problem with mixing them is that nothing supports the creationist perspective except faith. If the faith is gone, then there isn't anything there.

Answer 4

How have you ever resolved the tensions and issues of that time of view? And in case you assert there are not any, you have not even began to acquire a consistent defensible place, as you have not particularly worked out what that's you assert you have self assurance. you may start up with the ichneumon wasps that so afflicted Darwin, or your guy or woman expertise enamel, or the "developed in" painful and dangerous childbirth for human women human beings. And whilst some (many ) shield Evolution is like minded with Christianity, i be responsive to of no-one else who claims evolution "explains" it. Now that *is* a surprising fact!

Answer 5

The idea that there is no God is mathematically impossible. Basic probability tells you that the odds of a blob of primordial ooze morphing into a man, regardless of how much time has passed, are so remote that mathematicians regard it as impossible. Emile Borel and Fred Hoyle are just two mathematicians who reject evolution on statistical grounds. The idea is a "Statistcal Immposibility". For example, it is theoretically possible that you could blow up a junk yard and all the flying pieces would land and form themselves into a Cadillac - that is possible. But the odds against it are so high that it constitutes a "Statistcal Immposibility". Same goes for evolution. That only leaves one possibility: God. There's your proof, mathematically arrived at.

Answer 6

I believe in both. We have observed evolution in many species of animals through fossil studies but still you have to ask the question, where was the first organism came from? So it must be created by some being.

Answer 7

I believe in both. I believe God created the universe (multi-verse?) but designed it to evolve and adapt to the changing environment. If He didn't design it to adapt, life would have gone extinct long ago.

I also do not believe the Earth is only 6000 years old. God said he created everything in 6 days. I have no idea how long one of his days is. It could be 20 billion of our years for all I know.

Answer 8

Creationism is a myth based on a fairy tale, nothing more to it. Evolution has the backing of hundreds of years of scientific research and understanding and has withstood more criticism than almost any other scientific theory. There isn't a middle ground, you either understand logic, reason and reality, or you believe in fairy tales.

Answer 9

Consider these Videos , they speak for what I believe as well.

The Origin of Man by Dr. Duane Gish
Duane Gish Ph.D. Biochemistry, University of California, Berkley. Dr. Gish is the Vice President of the
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2863648693594434534

Evolution: Challenge of the Fossil Record - Part 1 of 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NkO6fQvydM

EVOLUTION SMACKDOWN: THE ATHEISTS NIGHTMARE !!!
Dr D James Kennedy, and Dr. Carl Baugh on evolution. Visit Dr. Carl Baughs website, Creation Evidence Museum at the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9zUOK8F1CE


Fingerprints of Creation
David Gentry, MD, Research Scientist, and Dr. Robert Gentry, Research Scientist. Available free for
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5725394906886443944


Dr. Robert Gentry explains why Polonium Halos prove an instant creation of earth by God....creation evolution fingerprints atheism radiometric geology radioactive halo rock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9DtY-BXWnY

The Young Age of the Earth
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1272542059740401469

Answer 10

I believe it's a vast non-issue drummed up by a minority of fundamentalists as a way to push their political agenda on the politics of the US.

Other than that, I believe God created the world using evolution and that the Genesis creation story is an allegory that makes one factual point: God made the world.