Should you believe in Creation according to the Bible or in Evolution according to science?

Answer 1

Opinion It is quite acceptable for a person to believe both in creation as related in The Bible and science. What differs is whether the Biblical account is interpreted as being favoring a young or old earth. There are scientists who believe the Bible, and follow either evolutionary theory or that of Creationism. Both use the same facts, but interpret them from a different world view.

Opinion You can believe in Creationism, as it can make you feel better about the universe and your place in it. On a similar note, you could believe in Narnia, and feel good that such a magical kingdom exists. Alternatively you can 'believe' in what is actually true.

Opinion

You should believe in that which has the greatest chance of being an accurate belief, of being borne out by the facts. In this case, that means that you should believe in evolutionary theory - or rather, that you should accept that evolutionary theory is the single and best testable explanatory model that is consistent with observations in Biology and palaeontology.

Answer 2

There is no harm in believing in biblical creation, if you feel that such belief helps reinforce your religious faith, unless of course you wish to follow a science-related career.

Science tells us what the evidence shows really happened - that the world is around 4.5 billion years old and that our ancestors evolved from earlier species. If you wish not just to believe, but to know, you will learn the scientific answer.

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Answer 3

You yourself will have to choose. According to the theory of Evolution, the Universe (and this Earth) resulted from random events stemming from natural laws, and life then developed by random processes, especially mutations.

The narrative of Divine Creation, which is contained in Genesis ch.1 and 2, states that God created the universe. This teaches us that God exists, that our lives and the world are not random, and that the created things may be assumed to contain vast wisdom in their beautiful and purposeful design. (In recent decades, this wisdom has indeed been partially revealed, through increasingly powerful microscopes.)Evolution through random mutations, on the other hand, may be understood as implying that life is an accident, that perceived beauty and wisdom are ultimately purposeless, and that our instinctive yearning for the Eternal is just an electrical impulse in our brain.

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