Christians who have accepted the Evolution theory: Explain to me... ?

Question

Your beliefs?

Answer 1

Christians who have accepted the Evolution theory, are denying the inerrancy of the Bible.

Evolution itself is a religious belief that fundamentally requires adherence to the religion of atheism and/or the religion of pantheism. How can a Christian accept evolution unless one is ignorant.

Evolution is a hypothetical, unobserved process (without any known scientific mechanism) by which all things in the universe are said to have created themselves from nothing without needing the existence of a Creator. Evolution is a hypothetical process of onwards-and-upwards self-improvement where all things somehow create themselves and somehow increase their complexity of their own accord.

Evolution contradicts what the Bible proclaims. Let God be true and ever man a liar.

Answer 2

I am a christian and I surely do not believe the "Evolution Theory!" I think that if you are a christian and you believe that God created the heavens and the earth then there is no way that you can also believe the Evolution Theory! The Evolution theory is about how scientists believe the world came into existence! Science vs Bible has been a debate since I can remember! The reason I am also on the biblical side is because a lot of what the bible said would happen has happened. For example: The bible says that you won't be able to tell the winter from the summer only by the budding of the trees. Now we are in almost mid December and when I walked out of my door I only had on a jacket! No heavy coat or anything like that! And the bible speaks about world hunger, wars, and the anti-Christ! The whole bible will be fulfilled before the Christ comes back and he will be back soon because look at what's going on in the world now! People are starving all over the USA, which is one of the richest countries in the world! People killing people! This is why Christ has to come back because this is not the way he wants his people to live! He didn't create the world for us to be scared!

Answer 3

You cannot be a christian and accept the theory of Evolution because the Bible says that God created everything in seven literal days. Exodus 20:8-11 8Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 11For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it If the theory of Evolution is really true, why are there so many missing intermediate fossils in the fossil record. There are literally millions of missing fossils that logically should be abundant, but just aren't found. For those who are reading this and don't know what an intermediate fossil is, let me give an example. In the English alphabet, we have the letters a, b, c, d......all the way to the letter z. In the fossil record, we have fossil "a" and fossil "z", but all the fossils in between are just not found anywhere. These are the intermediate fossils. If lets say a whale evolved into a zebra over millions of years, there should be millions upon millions of fossils that show how the whale evolved and changed over that time period. Here are some quotes: (with there references) "A persistent problem in evolutionary biology has been the absense of intermediate forms in the fossil record. ...Typically, the record consists of successive ancestor-descendant lineages, morphologically invariant through time and unconnected by intermediates." (Williamson, P.G.,Paleontological Documentation of Speciation in Cenazoic Molluscs from Turkana Basin, 1982, p.163) "The number of intermediate variaties, which have formerly existed must be truly enormous. Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps is the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory." (Darwin, Charles, Origin of Species, 6th edition, 1902 p.341-342) "Given that evolution, according to Darwin, was in a continual state of motion... it followed logically that the fossil record should be rife with examples of transitional forms leading from the less to more evolved...Instead of filling the gaps in the fossil record with so-called missing links, most palaeontologists found themselves facing a situation in which there were only gaps in the fossil record, with no evidence of transformational intermediates between documented fossil species." (Schwartz, Jeffrey H., Sudden Origins, 1999, p.89) [The Evolution theory]"Is still, as it was in Darwin's time, a highly speculative hypothesis entirely without direct factual support and very far from that self evident axiom some of its more aggressive advocates would have us believe" (Australian molecular biologist, medical doctor and agnostic, Michael Denton; Evolution: A theory in Crisis, 1986, p.77) Another thing is that if you look at the fossil record, apparently all the light organisms are found near the top of the soil, and all the heavy or large fossils are deep under ground. Paleontologists say that this is because the organisms at the bottom (the heavy fossils) existed at a more prehistoric time (longer ago) than the ones near the top. However this is just how animals flout. If there was a worldwide cataclysmic flood like the great flood mentioned in the book of Genesis, the heavier organisms, like the molluscs and dinosaurs would've sinked to the bottom, and the lighter organisms would've flouted near the top, and so they would've fossilized. There are about six different types of evolution. You get Cosmic Evolution, Stellar and Planetary Evolution, Chemical Evolution, Organic Evolution, Macro-Evolution, and Micro-Evolution. Out of all these, only Micro-Evolution or Natural Selection can actually be proven. For the rest of them to be fact, you need to have faith just like you need faith to believe in God.

Answer 4

I am a Christian who has used my God given intelligence and curiosity to acquire a Science related college degree. As a part of my education, I have had the opportunity to study and understand the scientific method of testing and proving theories.

Evolution is a sound, well proven theory. I have even performed some of the analysis which has supported evolution.

The Bible is not a history book, nor was it ever meant to be. Jesus himself, who was brought up in the Jewish tradition of the old testament, taught by using parables and stories to communicate ideas and philosophies.

I see so many of my fellow Christians who are so hung up with the factual accuracy of the Bible that they totally miss the message those words were meant to convey.

Answer 5

Most of them accept some variation St. Augustine's view:

"It not infrequently happens that something about the earth, about the sky, about other elements of this world, about the motion and rotation or even the magnitude and distances of the stars, about definite eclipses of the sun and moon, about the passage of years and seasons, about the nature of animals, of fruits, of stones, and of other such things, may be known with the greatest certainty by reasoning or by experience, even by one who is not a Christian. It is too disgraceful and ruinous, though, and greatly to be avoided, that he [the non-Christian] should hear a Christian speaking so idiotically on these matters, and as if in accord with Christian writings, that he might say that he could scarcely keep from laughing when he saw how totally in error they are."

Answer 6

Obvioulsly before there was light and dark (and man) a day could have been any lenght of time or working period that God deemed. A day didn't even have to be consistent with another day. Sometimes I have longer days than others. Some projects take 10 hours some take 20. Maybe God's projects were 600,000 years one day and a million the next.

Answer 7

Look, God never said that he did things in a week (our time) period. He just said that he did it. A thousand years is like a minute to God. So...what we call a week, could in fact be millions of years.

God wouldn't have us discover science and all the wonders of the world and universe, if he didn't want us to. If it was so cut and dry, it will still remain that way. BUT...science is making great steps to understand just how we got where we are. In my opinion, it's better to research something and come up with an educated guess, than base your beliefs on myth.

Answer 8

Not sure exactly what you mean but here goes. There is a mountain of scientific evidence in favor of evolution. Here's a start:

http://google.nationalgeographic.com/search?site=default_collection&client=default_frontend&proxystylesheet=default_frontend&output=xml_no_dtd&oe=UTF-8&q=evolution

If God created the earth and all that is in it, why not evolution also? I do not see any conflict between science and religion. Science concerns itself with the mass of the electron, how to cure diseases and the chemical make-up of water. Religion is concerned with good and evil and our eternal soul. You might as well try to compare apples and Volkswagens.

Answer 9

I believe that God created all that is, was, or ever shall be. I also believe that how He chose to do so and in what time frame are details known only to Him. The Bible is full of allegory and symbolism, and sometimes it's hard to know where facts end and literary devices begin.

I don't buy evolution 100%, but then again, I don't automatically discount it, either.

Answer 10

I was actually taught in catholic grade school (mid-70s) that we did evolve from some kind of apelike ancestor, but at some point, we became more man than animal, and from that point on we had a soul.

When you think of how complex life is - even a single celled animal - it's hard to believe that it was the result of a crapshoot. I think God is behind it all. But I also think that ID should not be taught in PUBLIC schools.