Evolution or created by God?

Question

State your facts and sources. I have theory I think God created the first organism on earth then that organism evolved on its own.

Answer 1

To Sparkle, you are incorrect, there is tons of evidence for the support of evolution. If you do not believe me read into Darwin's theory. Also because of carbon dating and archeological digs, evolution has been proven.

I believe the same thing. I believe that God or whatever ultimate power exists created the first spark of life, and that God gave that life the potential to evolve. Science and the environment did the rest.

According to Catholic Teaching (the Catechism), it is okay to believe in evolution as long as you believe that God created the first organism.

Answer 2

Let us think about this for a second.
While for many believing that everything evolved they ask, "Where did it all start?" This is a great question, but is it not true the same question can be asked about a superior being?
Where did the Earth come from? Many would say God. What did he make the Earth of? Good question, I am not sure if someone (may I mention, hundreds to thousands of years later) wrote this into a very powerful book we now call the Bible. We come again to say, "Okay, this superior being has created the Universe from _______." I would assume there can be an agreement that mass cannot be created or destroyed, correct? So where did ________ come from? Better yet, where is God during all of this? What medium does he exist in? The answer that I expect, and hope to hear from many is in your faith. I can live with that. I cannot live with a question like this being turned around against any evolutionary ideas. So we have come to say we do not know where the greater being is at during the creation. Again, there comes another question if an answer to that is found. How did this medium that God exists in become something? It begins an endless cycle of needing to have a greater being above God, then above God's, God, and so forth. Much like the argument of evolution. Where did it all start and how?
This is something we will never know.

Answer 3

My theory is that there is a being greater to man's existence but I do not know what that being is whether it is God or what. it is too difficult to prove that God existed, so I try to have faith that he does truely exist...
I also believe that at one time the earth was covered in water, and once upon a time a star exploded which is the sun, therefore the water started to evaporate. There were living organisms under water which had to evolve so they could survive the changes. I think we are here because of evolution. I believe we here more so by evolution more than I believe we are here because of a God.

Answer 4

I don't have sources to quote, but there has been enough experimentation that when you bring the right materials together in the right conditions, it's relatively easy to form some of the building blocks of life, such as RNA.

also, there's the odds thing. We can all agree that the formation of life is extremely unlikely... perhaps that's whey it took the earth 3.5 billion years for the first life forms to emerge. After that, evolution took hold and things progressed rather rapidly.

What facts and sources would provide evidence that a supernatural deity created the first organism?

Answer 5

It's your question!
Have you got one fact, just one, that shows any "evolution" at all?
I was going to leave it at that, but I just can't. Evolution is still a "theory" for after 140 years and thousands of people working on it, it cannot be proved!
I think God created the first organism, too. How about the new kind of deer they just found on the island of Borneo? This is not a bacteria. This is a deer! God is still at it.

Answer 6

Interestingly enough the only way evolution can work is if the original organism had the blueprints for all forms of life that we know of today.
The question of God is a possibility of course but why would God want to hang around for six billion years in order to see mankind come to fruition?

Answer 7

I believe that God created us through evolution.

There is no denying the fact that near-humans have been found, and seem to have evolved in stages. I see no reason why God could not have created the universe through evolution and created humans in different stages as well.

I don't agree with the THEORY that we came from monkeys.

If we did, why are there still monkeys around? The different kinds of early man died out when man came.

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Answer 8

I'm sorry for the lack of fact's or sources but I think your right. I've never felt it was one or the other. I think there was creation and of course there is going to be evolution along the way.

By the way, were hot pocket's created or have they evolved from something else?

Answer 9

Evolution started when the Earth was bombarded with microbes from space. where these came from and whether or not God created them and molded them, I have no clue. All I do know if creationism, is a ridiculous idea, that doesn't explain anything that was pre-man, and if it was true, then we would all be inbreed, it would not work.
This is an arrogant idea created by man, who at one point thought Earth was the center of the universe and he ruled over it.

Answer 10

Evolution.
God's time to explain things is over.
"Oh god could make evolution"
So could many other things which don't include a god.

If it is very clear that things in thsi unvierse can happen without god, what makes you think that beyond that there's need for deistic intellect?
Can there not begodless processes which would originate universes such as ours?
Occam's Razor!!!

In the end you can't know, but saying that it was a god is pretty stupid.
God is out of the question in the 21st century. Only those who cannot live with a "I don't know." in their minds need that ignorant answer.

Answer 11

What if God is Evolution. What if all the energy that it takes to for new life to form and exist is God. The bible has some pretty good points when it comes to god. Scientists have good proof when it comes to evolution. But what i think is that god created it all, evolution included, and then made adam and eve the first humans to have consciousness. Kind of like: he intended for Eve to fall to temptation, so that we could pull our selves away from "animal minds" and have real thought.