...with regards to God?
It seems strange to me that so many believe evolution does anything with regards to faith.
What are your thoughts?
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2007-12-20 07:38:27 · 21 answers · asked by super Bobo 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
How does it contradict the Bible? And how is a creator superfluous?
2007-12-20 07:46:38 · update #1
good points 11-t
2007-12-20 08:03:32 · update #2
Geezah - thanks, and more good points, but I have to say talkorigins is so flawed, I'm surprised it's one of your sources.
2007-12-20 08:04:56 · update #3
AM-viato... but a '...direct, clear description of evolution...' keeps evolving doesn't it? Hasn't our family tree flattened recently? Who's to say it won't be completely flat in the next 25 years?
2007-12-20 08:09:10 · update #4
The theory of evolution neither proves nor disproves the existence of God. But it also leaves unanswered the fundamental question of creation. Life does not spontaneously spring from non-life.
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2007-12-20 07:48:52 · answer #1 · answered by cmw 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Evolution doesn't have anything to say about God, or the existence thereof. Evolution is a theory that describes how life on earth changes over time.
What people get upset about is they feel that the Bible states that God created the Earth a few thousand years ago, and created the plants and animals (including humans) exactly as we see them today. The theory of evolution conflicts with this notion by suggesting that, in fact, the earth is a few billion years old, and species have been changing over a long period of time to become what we see today. More specifically, evolution suggests that humans were not "created" and placed on the planet in our present form, but rather that we are descendants from other animals and came to our present form through a matter of opportunity and circumstance. That seems to upset a lot of the religious community that attempts to interpret the Bible (or any other religious text) literally.
2007-12-20 07:52:45 · answer #2 · answered by Mr.Samsa 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My opinion is that there is a higher power that created evolution. A baker "creates" a cake by means of ingredients and steps taken. The Bible subtly talks about evolution. It says that all living things came from the seas... Look it up. As far as "In God's Image". Who's to say God doesn't look like an alien or an octopus or a huge glow and we are still evolving to get there. We could just be at the baker's raw dough stage for all we know.
2007-12-20 07:49:53 · answer #3 · answered by RonniewithanR 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Evolution is a actuality. if you're the non secular form who's having issues believing in evolution, imagine of it this kind. the reason technology and faith conflicts isn't because they clearly do, yet because of our inadequate awareness of both. there is not any longer some thing interior the Holy Scriptures that say evolution isn't actual. It basically stated that we were made out of dust and that life became breathed into the first guy. Now in case you’re going to take that truly, you've a real difficulty. The bible doesn’t prefer to delve into such clinical concerns because the attitude of evolution because it holds quite many times in uncomplicated words innovations that we supposedly choose for salvation. you could’t locate some thing interior the Bible that would educate you pc, are you able to? If technology is the pursuit of truth, and if the ultimate Being is the ultimate embodiment of truth, then time will come at the same time as our understanding in technology and our understanding in our faith will in uncomplicated words be sure one yet another.
2016-10-19 21:20:41 · answer #4 · answered by haper 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing, because the question of deity is ultimately irrelevant to the subject. Just as the subject of pie baking doesn't prove or disprove anything about chess.
The only "overlap" I see is that a LITERAL word-for-word interpretation of the Book of Genesis can be misused to present a hypothesis that explains the diversity and distribution of organisms on the planet. Evolution offers different hypotheses. The former doesn't match up to what we see in the real world; the latter does.
Of course this hardly disproves the existence of deity...unless I suppose one is ethnocentrically insistent on thinking that taking the Bible as an infallible history book is the ONLY way to go about believing in God. Most of the world would disagree with that notion.
2007-12-20 07:42:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
It proves that no religious text is a literal truth, since none of them have a direct, clear description of evolution. So it means that all scriptures have metaphorical meanings to their interpretation of the beginning of man. If this is true, then the entirety of the scripture would be metaphorical. And that questions many fundamentalists actions.
2007-12-20 07:48:40 · answer #6 · answered by Take it from Toby 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nothing.
It makes God unnecessary which annoyed a few theists. It, along with geology and astronomy, shatters the Doctrine of Biblical Literalism, which was already strained by the obvious contradictions in the Bible. For this, it is assailed with every conceivable lie.
2007-12-20 07:47:44 · answer #7 · answered by novangelis 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It does contradict the creation myth and with that some very fundamental dogmas.
Also in contradicting creation it introduces taking some to all of the bible metaphorically and/or that the bible is not infallible. Both of these tend to discredit it as a trustworthy source of information about God.
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2007-12-20 07:44:37 · answer #8 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Evolutionary science makes no claim about a deity, the beginning of the universe or life (abiogenesis is a separate scientific fact from evolution). It is the religions, especially their texts, that fail to reconcile with evolution. For instance, look at Genesis 1:24. If we take "kind" to be as close to 'species" as the bronze age desert nomad will come, this verse cannot be reconciled with evolution. This, of course, means genesis is wrong, and debunks all of the Abrahamic traditions..
2007-12-20 07:44:12 · answer #9 · answered by neil s 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It contradicts a literal reading of Genesis and other creation stories. It has also caused some to question why a benevolent creator would use such a violent method of creation. I suppose thirdly, it suggests that humans are not superior to animals.
But in all, it does not "prove" the non-existence of a God.
2007-12-20 07:42:35 · answer #10 · answered by Eleventy 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋