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A number of surveys among scientists show that the majority of them do not believe in God and therefore do not believe that God made the earth. Even scientists who do hold religious beliefs recognise that the biblical creation stories, read literally, can not really explain the origins of the world. However, approval is another matter. Most scientists have no objection to others holding beliefs about divine creation, as long as such beliefs are in accord with the facts of science. Unfortunately, some recent hypotheses have been put forward that attempt to dispute the science of how the earth originated and life evolved. The difficulty for scientists is in explaining the facts as they know them, without appearing to enter into a purely religious debate.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 9y agoIt seems to me that there are 'categories' of thinking about God and the Earth's creation so there is no blanket answer to this question.
In seems to me then that there are three different categories into which people fall as they try to explain the creation - the existence of this world, life, the universe - trying to reconcile faith and reason together or science and The Bible:
First comes what some might call 'atheistic evolution' this being the idea that evolution is the only means to explain the origin of life on Earth, there definitely is not a God-being so there is no Divine Creator involved in the physical life process. And according to a recent poll, about 15 percent of Americans polled adopt and accept this approach.
Next comes what some have come to call 'scientific creation' this is the idea that the Bible is literal and that there is a God who created this world - and the word of science is not exactly as evolutionists would say that it is. This same recent poll has 46 percent of people adopting this approach. Most who call themselves Christian - fundamentalist or otherwise - believe in the Bible as an account to explain the creation.
Lastly, there's another third category and more recently called 'theistic evolutionist', tends to blend the two that the world, the universe was created by a God but evolution is used as part of the process by which the life forms arose on this earth, especially, and within the universe in terms of its creation, but with a hands-off approach from a Creator who designed into the processes the ideas and the things that we might term as the evolutionary process.
Relatively few in each lifetime knows the truths of Scripture - though many erroneously think they do:
1 Corinthians 2:13-16New King James Version (NKJV)
13 These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. 16 For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.
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