Evolution

Creation and evolution are most certainly notcompatible teachings. Some Christians, usually those who have been convinced by the alleged 'infallibility of modern science' and the fact of evolution decide it is possible/necessary to make a compromise view and have both. Such thinking ignores the nature of the Christian faith, which is based on the historicity of certain historical events as the resurrection, creation, flood etc. If one is free to disbelieve what the bible says about creation why not also disbelieve the amazing fact of the resurrection? Atheists are not slow to understand this:

Dr William Provine, atheist professor of biology at Cornell University stated: '�¢ï¿½�¦ belief in modern evolution makes atheists of people. One can have a religious view that is compatible with evolution only if the religious view is indistinguishable from atheism.' [in 'No free will'; in Catching up with the Vision, Margaret W Rossiter (Ed.), Chicago University Press, p. S123, 1999.]

In addition to this, many Christians do not think through the real meaning of accepting evolutionary teaching, which is a principal of 'nature red in tooth and claw.' The Genesis record of creation and the fall would clearly indicate first of all a very good creation (pronounced so by God) which was then cursed and spoiled by man's fall into sin. Accepting evolution and natural selection as God's creative method necessarily means the acceptance of death, pain and suffering as a normal part of life rather than intruders. What does this do to the promise in the book of Revelation 21:4 "And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away." This is thus an insult to the goodness and love of God and also an insult to His wisdom, since evolution is a wasteful process requiring the death of many for progress.

As atheistic Nobel Laureate Jacques Monod said: '[Natural] selection is the blindest, and most cruel way of evolving new species, and more and more complex and refined organisms �¢ï¿½�¦ The struggle for life and elimination of the weakest is a horrible process, against which our whole modern ethics revolts. An ideal society is a non-selective society, one where the weak is protected; which is exactly the reverse of the so-called natural law. I am surprised that a Christian would defend the idea that this is the process which God more or less set up in order to have evolution.' [The Secret of Life, broadcast interview, 10 June 1978.]

In connection with the historicity of what Genesis tells us about the first man Adam and Paul's commentary in Romans: Paul of course assumed that a real historical Adam existed and fell into a real historical sin against God. He points out that Jesus is the 'second Adam' who has come to take away that sin (Romans 5:14 cf 1 Cor 15:22). If Adam, as evolution teaches, was not the first man who fell into sin, then Christ cannot be the second Adam to atone for a non-existent man and a non-existent fall. As Richard Dawkins in the God Delusion (page 253) explained:

"Oh, but of course, the story of Adam and Eve was only ever symbolic, wasn't it? Symbolic? So, in order to impress himself, Jesus had himself tortured and executed, in vicarious punishment for a symbolic sin committed by a non-existent individual? As I said, barking mad, as well as viciously unpleasant." (emphasis in original).

To summarize: Belief in creation with all that that entails, and belief in evolution with all that it entails are definitely not compatible. Trying to make them compatible clearly shows a misunderstanding of one or both.

== == == == == == == == == == Well evolution could be the way God made the universe. Creation and evolution aren't different we just don't know did God use evolution or 7 days in the creation. There is evidence for both.

Scientists have found some sort of bone at the side of the snake's skin which could mean snakes had legs once and they evolved to lose them. The Bible says they used to have legs. In the Bible it talks about a Garden of Eden. The story of the garden might be in symbolism because it said that the snake lost his legs and evolution said the same thing.

Some people believe that in the Bible each day is about millions of years. This could be true but some people don't agree because in the Bible it said that God made the sun after the plants and plants need sun light and if one day was millions of years then the plants would die. Plants had light because it said in the Bible that 2nd day God made light. Then the plants would have light if light came before plants. The Bible also talks about a big bang where it says the heavens will make big noise. In Greek that means a big bang. Our big bang already happened.

Also scientist say we are made out of star dust and the Bible say the same thing. The Bible says god made us out of dust. In the Bible, it said that the heavens' are divided in 3 parts. 1st heaven is the sky on earth, 2nd heaven is space, 3rd heaven is where God lives. Today the universe is expanding. In the Bible, it also said the universe is expanding. In the Bible, it said God stretched the heavens and it said that 4 times.

== == == == == == == == == == == == It's simple... they' re not connected. Evolution is a scientific theory which postulates that all life "evolved" from a single cell. The Bible does not spell out the particulars of how or even whether life evolved. Some Christians are "creationists", i.e., they believe that each form of life was created by a higher being, albeit instantaneously. Most fundamentalist Protestants fall in this category. Some other Christians believe that life could have evolved just so long as God breathed life into Adam, the first man and Eve the first woman. Specifically, the Pope has said that Catholics may believe in evolution so long as they believe also in the accuracy of the biblical account that all men descended from the primal couple. Evolutionists have spent many decades looking for fossil evidence of "missing links" - developing forms of life that are halfway between one form of life and another. To date, they have been unable to find any such missing links. Currently, many believe that species may mutate and some of their characteristics may evolve but they are not transformed into a totally different species. Time and more research will tell. God lets "the earth bring forth" the plants, rather than creating them directly. Maybe Genesis is not so anti-evolution after all. Genesis 1:11 In verse 11, God "let the earth bring forth" the plants. Now he has the earth "bring forth" the animals as well. So maybe the creationists have it all wrong. Maybe God created livings things through the process of evolution. Genesis 1:24 Genesis 2:6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground..... When there's water, life will evolve.

in 0007 the world was fully created by God.(that's 7 days)

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The world formed from a swirling cloud of matter some 4.5 billion years ago. There was't any "they" involved.

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god created the world first creatures and two people he made married each other and days and days the had millions of babies that's how we where created

It is very clear that the universe is billions of years old - all evidence points this way. Even the Jewish nation of Biblical times accepted an old earth - far older than Genesis suggests. However, an old universe and the formation of life through an evolutionary process does not mean that God is not necessary. On the contrary. It suggests that there is a driving force within life itself, made up of the physical laws necessary for the evolutionary process, and an interaction within those forces that culminates in a pinnacle of Creation, humanity, that has a spiritual dimension i.e. made in the image of God the creator.

Nor does the acceptance of some form of evolution mean that evolution has been completely understood - it simply hasn't. In simple terms, the Anthropic Principle dictates that the initial parameters and constants laid down (such as the size of the gravitational constant, the mass of an electron and hundreds of other fundamental constants of the universe) are such that life can exist. Even the slightest fluctuations either way of any of these constants would mean that life could never evolve. It seems that the universe has bent over backwards to allow us to exist. And what is more, the same physical laws keep the universe fine tuned to ensure that life thrives. Therefore, within a framework of evolution and science, there seems to be not simply 'room' for a Creator but a necessity for a Creator. However, this is not a simplified version of Creator conjured up by the Creationists but the real, eternal Creator, God, as described in Genesis, who created the universe and continues to take part in that creation, through his laws and his intervention, theough the Holy Spirit, within our lives.