As part of my homework, I have to answer this question in 75 words.
I’m in year 10 GCSE and can't think of any reason as to how it is doable to believe in both God and Evolution
I would be grateful if you could answer this question in brief and easy words, which I could understand.
PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!
Well you can’t really deny evolution unless you’re willing to deny science. Most people that believe in both believe in evolution and just kind’ve ignore the consequences of what it means.
Or others believe in micro but not macro… unfortunately that really kind’ve undermines the entire science. It’s a prime example of believing bits of reality that you want to, and ignoring the reality that makes you uncomfortable. What people don’t realize is that their preference for it being right or wrong in no way changes whether it’s right or wrong.
Evolution does not purport to explain how life came to be in the first place (this is where god can come in) it only explains how life has evolved since beginning. Evolution leaves creation of life to other disciplines.
Evolution might, and does, bump up against most religious doctrines however.
I think it is perfectly easy to do…if and only if your god is NOT the god of the bible.
I dont beleive there is a god, but I think the possibilities of there being a god are far far greater than the possibility of the god that is described in the bible (new or old testament) is an accurate depiction of that god.
to be a theist, to me, you need faith in…
1)some deity existing, but specifically the one you are thinking about.
2)that the religion you follow is the right religion of the right god
3)that the bible is the divinely inspired, inerrant word of the true god
4)that all the things that were supposed to have tkaen place that were not covered by the bible are indeed true (visions etc) from 3500 years ago, til today.
5)that any and all implications of god by people are in fact true and accurate and from the god they are worshipping, and not some other god, the anti-god (devil), or jsut someones own imagination.
evolution does not describe how life STARTED, just how life evolves today, and by simple deductive reasoning, has always evolved.
Evolution is an aspect of science and science is the study of the natural world. God, however, is supernatural. They are simply paths that do not cross anywhere, and so there is absolutely no problem. Asking how it’s possible to believe in evolution and in God is akin to asking how it’s possible to believe in algebra or plumbing and in God.
There is a false dichotomy about this in most people’s interpretation.
The theory of evolution says absolutely nothing about the existence or non-existence of a god, nor does it prove or disprove the existence of a god.
On the other hand, a strict belief in the god of the Bible is not compatible with an acceptance of evolution.
The upshot is that there may be a god but that god is not the god of the Bible.
. Some liberal believers in the bible except evolution, but say that GOD was the start of it all, the prime mover. But that only complicates it more, Who created GOD. It adds to the problem, not helping it. Creationists are simply ignorant of the facts of evolution and repeat mantras that has been drilled into them by people with an agenda. Science is self correcting, no agendas, facts are what they are. So, technicaly it is America and you can believe what ever you want , logical or not, BUT if you believe in the literal bible or liberal interpretations of the bible you CANNOT justify a belief in evolution.
You either belief in young earth, and bronze age superstition or you accept reality,and “believe” what can be proven, and let go of that that cannot.
. The major issue between science and any religion is dogma, (and violence). Strongly held superstitions leads to the utterly stupid believe to die for what you “believe”in.
Theistic evolution and evolutionary creationism are similar concepts that assert that classical religious teachings about God are compatible with the modern scientific understanding about biological evolution. In short, theistic evolutionists believe that there is a God, that God is the creator of the material universe and (by consequence) all life within, and that biological evolution is simply a natural process within that creation. Evolution, according to this view, is simply a tool that God employed to develop human life.
read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theistic_ev…
secularist = someone who believes education and religion must be kept separate.
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Oh Ice - It’s obvious you know nothing about evolution, get a book, and a clue… Your answer is as riddled with ‘what if’s?’ and ‘Maybe’s’ as the science you know nothing about. All I’ve shown is scientific fact!
You say it was just a lucky coincidence that one rabbit had longer fur, and was more likely to survive in a new colder climate. But your so called ‘evolution science’ tells us that the Polar bear evolved from the Brown bear because a group of brown bears was isolated ‘trapped’ in a colder region and THEN adapted to suit their new environment (out of necessity, not chance), thus mutating into Polar bears???!!!
So is evolution just a luck of the draw or does evolution make intelligent decisions???? Just another of the many contradictions in evolution. Do creatures that mimic their environment happen randomly…. it’s just random dumb luck that an insect can look EXACTLY like the plant it lives on. Which one is it huh!???
Harmful mutations happen constantly. Without repair mechanisms, life would be very short indeed and might not even get started because mutations often lead to disease, deformity, or death. So even the earliest, “simple” creatures in the evolutionist’s primeval soup or tree of life would have needed a sophisticated repair system. But the mechanisms not only remove harmful mutations from DNA, they would also remove mutations that evolutionists believe build new parts. The evolutionist is stuck with imagining the evolution of mechanisms that prevent evolution, all the way back to the very origin of life.
you could say that the story of creation in Genesis is a metaphor for evolution, because god creates things in the same order as scientists say they evolved. first fish, then animals then people ect.
the idea of believing in god and evolution is that evolution was god’s plan, he meant for creatures to crawl out of the sea and then over generations to learn how to stand up and walk, become apes then people and that he guided all the branches of evolution along the way. rather like how apple keeps bringing out new generations of iPods.
this is what they taught at the Catholic school i attended.
Basically, you could believe that God helped to guide the process, or he set events in motion that allowed humans to evolve through evolution. This would actually make God more incredible than by just creating us from scratch. I just don’t understand why people can’t see this.
well **** it all depends on you’re theory of what god is but in my case id right down something like this. there once lived a Gnarf named god, god had this thing for another Gnarf who had an amazing figure they mated and created another Gnarf but their baby Gnarf didn’t have any other Gnarfs too mate with so the baby Gnarf found the closest thing that looked liked a Gnarf called a Zblarf and the Gnarf and Zblarf mated and had Znarfs the Znarfs mated with other Zblarfs and Gnarfs macking a mess of things. The Znarfs asked God how they could cure this affol plague that had bestod their deformed zblarfs and god said stop mating with you’re family so the znarfs, Gnarfs and Zblarfs all whent their seprit ways. The three species traveled far and long untill one day they found other znarfs ands Gnarfs and Zblarfs then they had a giant orgy and made lots of Znarfs, Gnarfs and Zblarfs and created other species like the Zgblarfs and HUMANS, AHMEN no wounder why god flooded the world
You believe in a god that set the process in motion.
Or you could just have one of those “God is the universe” definitions of your god.
Well, you can put it as something like: God is the driving force behind Evolution.
Evolution and God are not mutually exclusive. Its possible to accept both since they do not contradict each other.
lol @ Random Panther
God creates the soul, the body evolves.
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sure
you can a university prof. and believe that earth is flat
THE BIG QUESTION IS WAS IT GOD who started it with the big bang or was it something else ? if you get the answer to this you will be more than lucky
God created us and we evolved. The End.
Not without smoking crack
No it is not possible to accept both evolution and god. For a long time religion served as an alternative to science, because two thousand years ago, there was no scientific community or resources to determine cause of natural phenomenon, so the easiest answers were used, which was religion. Evolution was first discovered by Darwin, who was a christian before he discovered it and became an atheist after it. Evolution is deadly to religious beliefs, I am afraid.
I believe in micro-evolution (evolution within species), not in macro-evolution (evolution from one species to another).
It is not … you either believe in God the Creator of everything or in evolution …
you can believe what you like. but that doesn’t make evolution fit with god.
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Lightning From the East on November 9th, 2009
You cannot, That is called “Theistic Evolution”
A variation on the theme of evolution is theistic evolution. It states that God initiated life on earth and allowed evolutionary principles to bring man to where he is–maybe with a little help from God here and there. At least this theory includes God. But this theory was developed in part by Bible believing people who thought that evolution had some merit. In addition, it is an attempt to answer the many problems existing not only in the fossil record but also with how life could somehow randomly form out of nothing. Because of problems like this, some believe they can be explained by simply adding God to the picture: God directed evolution.
For those who hold to the Bible as the word of God, theistic evolution should not be a viable option. The Bible says, “Know that the LORD is God. It is he who made us…” (Psalm 100:3). The Scriptures state that God created. God said, “Let there be…” and there was. The Scriptures speak of the creative word of God. When God speaks, it occurs. He said “Let there be” and it was so. It does not say, “Let there be a slow development through an evolutionary process.”
God said in Genesis 1:26, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” The Hebrew word for “make” in this verse, and in verse 25 where God makes the beasts, is “asah.” It means to do, work, make, produce. This is not simply the limited Hebrew understanding of evolutionary principles.
The land animals were made differently than man. The animals were made from the ground, but man was made directly by God: “the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being” (Gen. 2:7). Evolution states that man evolved from life forms that developed in the ocean. Here, God made man from the dust of the ground–not the water of the ocean.
If evolution is true and the Bible is true, then how is the formation of Eve explained? She was created out of one of Adam’s ribs (Gen. 2:22). There is no way to explain this if theistic evolution is true; that is, unless you want to say that Eve wasn’t made from Adam’s side. Then, if you do that, you are doubting the very word of God.
Also, Jesus said in Mark 10:6 “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’” The beginning was not evolutionary slime; in the beginning of creation there was Adam and Eve.
Though this information is brief and far from complete, it should be obvious that theistic evolution and the Scriptures cannot be harmonized.