How come people who believe in evolution dont believe in God and?

Question

and people who believe in God dont believe in evolution? people say that you could have either evolved over time and thats how there are humans OR we were just created by God. Why cant it be both? i believe in God %100 but I also do believe in the evolution theory. I mean if we evolved from chimps, where did the chimps come from? God. so why cant it be both like I just stated? We could have evolved from chimps which were created by God. why doesnt that make sense to other people

ok people I didnt make this question for you to tell me that God is my imaginary friend. I believe in him and if you dot I will pray for you. Dont use this question to tell me whats right and whats wrong. I want a neutral answer

Answer 1

It makes sense to YOU and that's all that matters.

Answer 2

"We could have evolved from chimps which were created by God. why doesnt that make sense to other people"

Sorry, your assertion is profoundly inconsistent. There are several lines of reasoning that show these are inconsistent concepts. Here's just one: If God created the great apes, but allowed humans to evolve from an early variant, then why didn't God simply create humans in the first place? God, being infallible, would surely not make any errors with evolution since he is able to create humans as he deems necessary. (And evolution is all about errors, that is, mutations, that creep into the process and become the raw material for innovation.)

Unfortunately for believers, the evidence for the evolution of all life is dramatic and persuasive (fossils, DNA, RNA, long geologic time frames, etc). God apparently had nothing to do with any of it.

The origin of life is a tricky question, and is as yet not completely resolved. But research is closing in on answering this question, too.

At one time people thought God was involved in supporting the movements of planets. But this belief has been roundly destroyed by better understanding (through science). In a similar way, science shows that God is not necessary for the evolution of life. And eventually, science will show that God is not necessary for the origin of life either. It's only a matter of time.

Perhaps you should reconsider your position. ;-)

Answer 3

We agree completly.

Concerning the debate going on about intelligent design and evolution: is it possible that the final answer about which of these two seemingly opposite ideas is correct could simply be yes?

With one position firmly held by the believers and the other just as fearlessly defended by the non-believers, if you happen to be in a position somewhere near the middle, it does not look all that complex. From this position, you wonder why either-or has to be the answer.

If you believe that some higher being created the universe by intelligent design, what more elegant and intelligent design could there have been than a self-regulating system that continually checks its own errors and makes its own corrections in mid-stream as an integral part of the process.

This all seems quite logical to me although it probably won’t satisfy the believers because they are afraid to see any truth other than the one they have been told to believe in. Inversely it certainly won’t satisfy the non-believers because it leaves them stuck with a god that they are so obviously terrified of.

To sum up this view from the center, it might be most easily be explained by saying perhaps the designer was intelligent. Problem is, the designer was likely so intelligent that those seeking to prove that it is intelligently designed may be incapable of ever understand it well enough to see it for the elegant self regulating design that it has always been.

The nonbelievers will be similarly handicapped due to the internal terror the have about the idea that there may be a God. Neither side being able to leave their entrenched position for fear they may have to admit they were wrong. While the rest of us stand by trying to figure out what all the fuss is about. Personally I don’t think anyone is wrong, I just feel both sides are about half right.

Love and blessings
don

Answer 4

You'll have to study both sides deeper. And you'll discover just how incompatible they are to each other.
The Theory of Evolution is not just a theory that says human evolved from lesser sentient beings. This theory is a strong basis in science that imply "Simpler things make up complex things which in turn make even more complex things". The Creationist theory states that, "A complex god created a complex universe." And this complex god happens to be more complex than anything else that followed.
This is just an example of how incompatible they are.

Answer 5

Their are people who believe both, it's called theistic evolution. However, evolution contradicts a literalistic interpretation of Genesis. Non-theistic evolutionists focus their criticism on theistic evolutions essential belief in a supernatural creator. In the theistic evolutionary system, God is not the omnipotent Lord of all things, whose Word has to be taken seriously by all men, but He is integrated into the evolutionary philosophy. Theistic evolution gives a false representation of the nature of God because death and ghastliness are ascribed to the Creator as principles of creation. (Progressive creationism, likewise, allows for millions of years of death and horror before sin.)The Bible carries the seal of truth, and all its pronouncements are authoritative - whether they deal with questions of faith and salvation, daily living, or matters of scientific importance.

Evolutionists brush all this aside, e.g. Richard Dawkins says, “Nearly all peoples have developed their own creation myth, and the Genesis story is just the one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has no more special status than the belief of a particular West African tribe that the world was created from the excrement of ants”.

If evolution is false, then numerous sciences have embraced false testimony. Whenever these sciences conform with evolutionary views, they misrepresent reality. How much more then a theology which departs from what the Bible says and embraces evolution!

The doctrines of creation and evolution are so strongly divergent that reconciliation is totally impossible. The theistic evolutionists attempt to integrate the two doctrines; however such syncretism reduces the message of the Bible to insignificance. The conclusion is inevitable: There is no support for theistic evolution in the Bible.

Answer 6

I"m with ya here. I believe that there is a heaven and God but i just dont believe God could have created everything....that doesn't seem as logical as evolution. People who believe in creation don't like the whole science idea of evolution because they think if they believe in evolution they will be shunned by God, or be unfaithful to him. I do not have a religion, therefore i believe whatever i want to and i love that freedom. Evolutionists usually don't like the idea that God could've created all this, since they believe in evolution. Its kind of like asking a dog lover why they dont love cats.....the answer is simple: because they love dogs. People have their own opinions and are entitled to them, but i believe people should be more open minded about this stuff!

Answer 7

There are people who believe in both. It's called "theistic evolution." The only problem is that the naturalist explanation accounts for all changes since the beginning of life itself... so the only place left for God in this equation is at the very beginning of life (although science is closing in on that bastion, too.)

The result? Theists either deny the evidence outright (as in Young Earth Creationists) or else the domain of God is pushed further and further back as the frontier of our understanding expands.

That said, I started my path down the road of science as a theistic evolutionist, but the more I studied, the more I realized that there was no guiding hand in evolution.

Answer 8

You are right. Evolution explains the "How?" but not the "Why?" And, really, there is no contradiction between the idea of a Creator God or pantheon of divinities, and the idea of evolution by natural selection. Only when you believe in the literal truth of the creation myth of your religion, is there a conflict. And there are actually quite a lot of people who do believe in both.

Answer 9

There are many beliefs. Some churches teach that, if it is not in the bible, it is not so. I studied Anthropology in college and other books that reveal that when a Lemar branched or mutated into another breed called a Gibbon, this line branched into five branches, The great Ape, Chimpanzees, Baboons, Orangutan and Human.
The scientist have discovered what they think to be part of the origin of all things. It is called the (String Theory), in Quantum Physics.
I conceive life as you do. I think that the origin matters to those who seek truth. It matters not how God created it. He/she/all that is, the creator created all that is. The process does not disprove God and that is what many try to play with.
I for one agree with you.
Rev. TomCat

Answer 10

Back to the Adam and Eve, they were created by God, lived in heaven and being sent to earth. So maybe that why people don't trust on evolution since Adam and Eve specially created by god(not evolved by chimp or something) Im spoken as people who believe in god and not believe in evolution.

Answer 11

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