Why is it not possible for the theories of Evolution and Creationism to both be true?

Question

I don't see the contradictions.
Through God all things are possible, right?
When God created Adam, couldn't that process of molding him from the earth have taken place of millenia? And wouldn't that be viewed by us as evolution. When the bible states that the earth was created in 7 days and man in 1, why couldn't that 1 day represent centuries?

I meant to type, "over millenia" not "of millenia"

Answer 1

I believe it depends upon how you define creationism. If you believe that "God" created the earth and the "heavenly" bodies, and not in the biblical sense, then both theories could be true. However, if you believe in a literal intepretation of the Bible, they they are mutually exclusive.

Answer 2

Theories are no longer genuine or fake till they're shown to be genuine or fake. So, the "concept of Evolution" has on no account been shown genuine or fake. Neither has the "concept of Divine introduction". there are particular inbred features that residing issues have that convey approximately the upkeep of the species. Your bees activities exhibits a number of them - shape of the hive. If the bee made around hive cells, then it somewhat is a achieveable theory that the hive won't proceed to exist. And till a hive with around cells is got here upon, we can't in any respect know for valuable. yet we do know that hexagonal formed cells make the main suitable use of the distance given. all components of the cellular make touch with an adjoining cellular. A around cellular would have air gaps between the cells that would compromise the hive's atmosphere by ability of decreasing inner temperatures. And in the bee's minds, they could be questioning to themselves, "enable's save doing what we are doing and screw with those human's minds. it will tension them loopy attempting to parent us out."

Answer 3

It undermines the Bible’s teaching on the curse. The Bible is clear that the sin of Adam brought death and suffering into the world. There wasn’t death, disease, and suffering before Adam’s sin in Genesis 3, when God cursed the earth. But, we find fossilized dinosaurs and other animals with cancer, tumors, diseases, defects, and we also find them along with fossilized thorns and thistles. Because there are thorns in the fossil record, it had to be formed after Adam and Eve sinned.

You see, it’s really a battle of two histories of death. Did it come about before Adam and Eve sinned, or after as the Bible tells us? To accept millions of years of death before the creation and fall of man contradicts the Bible’s teaching on death and really the redemptive work of Christ. According to the Bible, death is an enemy and only a temporary part of history.

Dr. Terry Mortenson made a strong statement about this: “It also makes God into a bumbling cruel creator who uses (or can’t prevent) disease, natural disasters, and extinctions to damage His creative work, without any moral justification, but then calls it all ‘very good.’”

Also, Jesus was a young-earth creationist. As you read through the gospels, you will find that Jesus consistently treated the accounts of the Old Testament as straightforward truthful historical records (even the miraculous ones). He continually affirmed the authority of Scripture over man’s ideas and traditions.

There are other places as well, but in Mark 10:6, we have a clear statement that Jesus was a young-earth creationist: “But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female.” Jesus believed Adam and Eve were created right from the beginning of creation, not billions of years after the beginning. My question is, if Jesus Christ was a young-earth creationist, how can His faithful followers have any other view?

Jesus continually corrected the incorrect views of those around Him, but He only affirmed the Genesis account of creation.

Answer 4

absolutely. who knows how long a day was then? i don't believe in the genesis theory of creation myself, but if you do, then more power to you! many people believe through god, all things are possible, and this is one of them. evolution and creationism don't have to discredit each other. they can live together. i'm sorry some people are so blind that they don't understand this.

there are no contradictions in your argument. that one day could have been billions of years. evolution might have been god's way of creating the universe, and it's an ongoing process. you're completely correct and don't listen to the other people who insist we were created in a day as we are now 6000 years ago.

Answer 5

maybe so, maybe not, I don't really care. You see, it is one of those issues that I cannot fully comprehend, one way or the other, but in either case, whether there could be harmony between the two paradigms or not, I believe in God. I have proof, subjective but overwhelming, that He is real, that He is the Creator, and that He will end corruption and establish righteousness forever. And that is the more important issue, for me. Did a day last 24 hours or 1,000 years? I do not know. I do not care. God bless us.

Answer 6

Only fundamentals are bound trapped in contradictions and ideologies.edit > It seems in every group both religious or athiest there has to be black and white, right or wrong, one way or the other. Why doesn't anyone seem to want to even try of grasping the idea of an almighty God that is able to create through endless spans of time using evolution to create us?
Nuture itself is a constant evolution right in front of our eyes. Yet it is still the greatest of miracles.
There is no reason why all of this cannot be true, when it was shown a million times over how poetically metaphorical much of the bible is.

Answer 7

You will get, have got, two different "no" answers to that: from those who are convinced that the bible is true and that, correctly read, it does not allow for evolution to be true, and from those who already think they have sufficient grounds for dismissing any deity, therefore ruling out the possiblity of creationism, even of the "guided evolution" form.

A lot of people do hold to God-guided evolution, and it's the officlal position of the Roman Catholic church.
It requires believing that God is there and, for Christians, that it is not distorting the sense of the Genesis account to allow for an ancient earth billions of years old.

My problem with holding this posion is on rather different grounds.
It's that the more I understand evolution, the more it seems unlikely that evolution was guided by any *beneficent* creator.
The general waste, contingecy and (if, and only if, planned or deliberately allowed) cruelty involved seems to speak against loving creator.
From the extinction of over 99% of all known species, through to the location of the male prostate gland and women having painful, dangerous and sometimes fatal childbirths.
(Genesis 3:16..!)

Darwin couldn't reconcile the necessity of wasps laying their eggs in the living but paralysed bodies of caterpillars, (for their young to eat their way out) with a loving God...

(never mind the tongue-eating parasitess, zombie crabs (Sacculina) etc. )

Either polar position appears, to me, more tenable than trying to hold the middle ground: looking at this world, in detail, and maintaining that it shows the hand of a loving god in the workings of evolution.

Answer 8

The idea that the time line in the Genesis story is incorrect or mistranslated is not new. I have heard it redefined a few different ways. Creation myths occur in every culture and in every religion, with many similarities among them. It suggests an ingrained common story perhaps, or perhaps it is a result of us asking the question, "How did this all come to be?" In a non-scientific world this is an easier question to answer--"God must have made everything."

How did we come to be?, is the same question Darwin asked. He came up with a different answer. One that the majority of the world considers to be true. Even the religious among us hold this as science. You don't have to cast-away your faith to believe in science. If God is all things, then he must be science too, right?

It is possible there is an intelligent design, but it is only a possibility. There is no scientific evidence to back it up, but it is possible. If God did not make it, what did? E=MC2? Did Einstein unwittingly find the one true name of God? I guess that is a possibility, too.

Answer 9

They absolutely do go together. If you believe in an omnipotent God, you also have to believe that he could have made the world using any method he wanted to. The catholic church accepts evolution as a possible explanation for the origins of Man and so do a number of protestant denominations as well. Rather than contradict the idea that God created the Universe evolution rather, completes it, Where the atheist is left to wonder helplessly about the first cause that got all of the other changes going, the christian knows unequivically what that first cause was.

You also need to understand a little something about Hebrew numerology when interpreting Genesis. The number 7 (as in 7 days) is not literal, rather the number 7 (as do the numbers 12 and 3) represents completeness. Also in the Psalms and again in II Peter, it is written that a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years a day to God. Again 1000 is not literal. In hebrew numerology it rather represents an incalulably large number. So what the the biblical creation story is REALLY saying is that creation took a really long time until it was completed. Where's the controversy in that?

Answer 10

Of course it is, if you accept the creation story as allegorical. After all, doesn't all life trace back to some dust that somehow received that all-changing little spark?

As I wrote in an answer to an earlier question, I'm indebted to my eighth grade science teacher for this thought: when he informed our class that we were about to begin a unit on the origins of the universe and such, several voices around the room rose to protest, "God created the universe!" Mr. R. waited until everyone had quieted down and responded, "No one's denying that God created the universe. We're just about to learn HOW he did it."