Christians: do you believe in evoloution? If not how do you disagree with the....?

Question

in what ways do you disagree with the little evidence scientist have accumulated to support the theory of evolution? How would you from a Christian point of view debate the forming of the earth and its living creatures.

Answer 1

I believe that God created life with the ability to adapt and evolve within a species in order to meet changing environmental conditions.

I don't believe that inanimate matter was organized by chance and that it came alive through purely naturalistic means. I don't believe that the complex DNA codes in every cell of every living entity arose by random mutations with natural selection canceling out all of the mistakes.

I don't believe that a one celled creature went on to become a fish that went on to become an amphibian that went on to become a mammal that went on to become a human being.

http://www.khouse.org/articles/2003/445/

Elegance by Accident? Chance as the Master Architect? - Chuck Missler

Although the tiniest bacterial cells are incredibly small, each is in effect a veritable microminiaturized factory containing thousands of exquisitely designed pieces of intricate molecular machinery, made up of 100,000,000,000 atoms, far more complicated than any machine built by man and absolutely without parallel in the nonliving world."

The "simple cell" turns out to be a miniaturized city of unparalleled complexity and adaptive design, including automated assembly plants and processing units featuring robot machines (protein molecules with as many as 3,000 atoms each in three-dimensional configurations) manufacturing hundreds of thousands of specific types of products. The system design exploits artificial languages and decoding systems, memory banks for information storage, elegant control systems regulating the automated assembly of components, error correction techniques and proofreading devices for quality control.

All by chance? All without a Designer?

Unraveling DNA's Design

At the moment of conception, a fertilized human egg is about the size of a pinhead. Yet it contains information equivalent to about six billion "chemical letters." This is enough information to fill 1000 books, 500 pages thick with print so small you would need a microscope to read it!

If all the chemical "letters" in the human body were printed in books, it is estimated they would fill the Grand Canyon fifty times!

Answer 2

I suspect (my opinion only) that the reason some Christians are at least somewhat comfortable with evolution is because they do not see Creation and evolution as necessarily being opposing forces. For example, the primary difference between the Genesis account in the Bible and the evolutionary account relates more to a time element than it does anything else. As there has never been found an accredited missing link between any species, would it be so hard to believe that perhaps God made first one species and then another (building on the first) over a period of millions of OUR years instead of in six twenty four hour days? I am a solid Christian and I know without question that God is the creator of all things, but I am not so foolish as to put restrictions on how, why or when he does things. I know that if He chose to create all things in six EARTH days, he could have done so. But, why should He? As He is timeless, a million years would mean nothing and the six day explanation would certainly have been more understandable to ignorant humans way back then. I don't try to figure out why and I won't argue about it with anyone either as I don't see that it is of any importance. I simply accept what the very first words of the Bible say.....In the beginning....

Answer 3

So ignorant. Evolution is a fact. The only people who think otherwise are mostly those that remain willfully ignorant of the facts. You state than there is little evidence supporting evolution. How do you personally know this? Have you researched the literature and the evidence and come to this conclusion or is this just wishful thinking on your part? Or are you just parroting some evangelist who needs you to stay ignorant in order to continue to take your money? Given that you can't spell evolution is a pretty good sign that you don't really know much about it.

Less than .1% of scientists have doubts about the broad theory of evolution. Scientists may quibble about the mechanisms involved but the theory of evolution is broadly accepted and is the major pillar of modern biology. So much so that biologists don't really need to debate it because it is accepted as fact. Think what you will, I doubt that we will open your closed mind but consider this: Over 99% of all species that have ever lived on this earth are now extinct. Why would a creator create a less than perfect creation and allow nearly everything ever created to die?

If you want to show that evolution is incorrect, there is a much better way to demonstrate it than debating. It's called the scientific method. Form a hypothesis, gather observations and facts that support your hypothesis and formulate a theory. Publish your finding and have them peer reviewed and duplicated. Debates aren't evidence. Read something other than the books written by ignorant men during the bronze and iron age. Regurgitating their ignorance only makes you appear more ignorant. They didn't know any better, what's your excuse?

Answer 4

evolution is something that cannot be argued evolution even has a definition already it is a word it is no longer just theory it is proven that when put under certain circumstances a species will slowly change its own structure or chemical substance in order to survive the problem with evolution now is that instead of humans evolving to suit the environment we are altering the environment to suit us and whenever someone who is slightly different is born we immediately take action to make the "normal" so we have basically halted human evolution the problem with the bibles side of the story is it says that god created man yet we have some proof to say that man "evolved" from prime apes so instead of just being instantly formed here not evolving since we were supposedly created we started off as apes that slowly adapted so basically some christians argue it because it makes part of the bible wrong.

Answer 5

Its best to let the scientists who do not believe in evolution answer that. When a person with a non-scientific background attempts to answer a question like that-his answer is generally discarded because the person is not thought intelligent enough to answer. Like a majority of the evolutionist, Christians must read the same books on evolution, creation, origins and so on. We have to depend on those who "should" know the truth (scientifically speaking). Unfortunately we find that just because a person holds a Ph.D. from some prestigious school, he/she is not necessarily intelligent, or honest.

Answer 6

When the scientists can come up with an answer as to why animals need to evolve then I might consider the theory.

And the answer to why if we had a common ancestor with Apes, the Apes are far superior to humans physically.

Answer 7

I am not a christian

I believe evolution is a process we have gone through (maybe more than once) on this planet but I also believe that the material placed there to actually evolve was from a God that created everything

Answer 8

Evolution has 5 definitions. Which one are we considering. Always define your terms before you start. My view is not "Christian" but biblical. Evolutionism says death, and survival of the fittest caused man. Scripture says sin brought death. For there to be sin, there must have been a man to sin. Therefore the two are mutually exclusive. There are about 12 lines of persuasive argument against the "old earth" theory, and evolutionism. (see Kent Hovind)

Answer 9

Christians do believe in evolution and I don't know who was the smarty pants who said we didn't. Even the late great Pope John Paul II (my favorite pope) was a public supporter of the Theory of Evolution.

Answer 10

Most Christians do believe in evolution they just believe that the evolution process is God's doing.
Peace.

Answer 11

The creation of the earth is obvious to the faithful and the unfaithful have no clue how to see the smallest details of what He created.