Creation

God did not use any agency external or separate from Himself, but Jesus Christ as God Himself was the one involved in creation, as is made clear by the following three key New Testament passages which clearly identify both Godhead and the divine activity of creating with Jesus Christ:

1God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; 3Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:

1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2The same was in the beginning with God. 3All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 12Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: 13Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: 14In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: 15Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: 16For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: 17And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

• Yes, many people believe that god created and started the whole process and then allowed life to evolve on its own. However it is important to remember that when we say the "theory" of evolution, scientists don't mean it the way you do in your everyday life. In Science theory is an explanation for observed (i.e. observed to be true) phenomenon, it does not mean "well this could be how it works" or "this might be true". It is something that is testable, falsifiable, makes accurate predictions and has been proved. However when we say "Creationist Theory" we do mean "theory" as we use it in everyday use because the theory of Creationism is not testable and is based solely on faith.
• No. Evolution, as defined by the American National Association of Biology Teachers, is an "unsupervised, impersonal, unpredictable, and natural process". However, Christians believe that God created the heavens and the earth and directly controls every aspect of our lives. These statements are not compatible. Now, there is a growing group of scientist that believe that one can accept evolution as scientific fact and still believe in a creator God, because science and faith are different and distinct aspects of life. Though a large amount of Christians are accepting this view, there are still those who believe that faith and reason are not mutually exclusive and that it takes just as much faith to believe in evolution as God. As one can see by looking at the many contradictory answers given on this page, the debate is by no means resolved and Christians and evolutionists are still as opposed to one another's viewpoints as before.

• Creation and Evolution are the same thing, it's just that creation was written in a time when people didn't have the ability to understand something like evolution and how long it took to reach the stage we are now. God created the world in 6 days and rested on the 7th, but how long is one of God's days compared to ours. One of God's days could be a million years to us or more. As for the parts of the old testament that speaks of what God has said or done: such as Genesis; had to be bestowed on the authors of the Torah (the original Hebrew text in which the old testament was pulled from) from a higher power, because they had no way of knowing. If it said God created the world, and then all the animals in it as well as humans by starting with single celled organisms and making us evolve into marine life, then land walking mammals would have confused people in those days. Basically we weren't ready for that knowledge. Evolution is just a perfect method to make us earn our existence in this physical world God has made for us.

• So, in a nutshell; yes, creation and evolution can coexist. Basically because; the are the same story of our history and journey as a species, they're just told differently. People need to stop taking the Bible so literally, and realize that it's not a constitution, it's more like a handbook to read and draw our own conclusions from considering when and where we are in this space and time. It was written in a way so that it could be used through the ages, no matter what changes occurred; culturally, religiously, politically, and so on and so forth.

• Evolution and Creation coexist in the 'Intelligent Design' (ID) theory, according to which a Divine Creator created the world and the laws in it (the law of natural selection being one of them). They can also co-exist in the "theistic evolution" theory or the "BioLogos" theory.

• The Bible says God created Adam as a man, not a baby. He also must have created stars with their light already traveling to us, otherwise there would not have been enough time yet for us to see the distant ones. I think this means that God created these things with history. e.g. if Adam had been presented to a scientist a minute after creation, the scientist would be correct if he thought that based on all the evidence, such a man must have started life as a baby and grew into an adult.

  So what is harder for God- to create everything out of nothing, or to create everything out of nothing and with an inbuilt history that explains how it all came to be in accordance with the physical laws that he created too. If this is correct, He could have created man with an inbuilt history of evolution, but he could have done it all in a moment. So Evolution may just as well be a perfectly correct explanation for describing the history of man that God created. Both Creation and Evolution can be correct. None of this even requires you to question how long a day is- why can't it just be a normal, 24 hour day?

• Well, they are now but whether it is peacefully is another issue. If you mean both can be right the no.

• In my opinion, yes. God made everything then when something happened to his creatures he changed them.

• Science is secular, or agnostic. It says absolutely nothing about the existence of any supernatural entities. There is no part of evolutionary theory that says God can't exist, and they two aren't at ends (just look at how many Christians accept evolution, the whole Catholic church for example)

• The only area of science that opposes the concept of a god is in logic. Occam's Razor -- that the answer with the fewest unexplained facts, or assumptions, is probably the best one -- is the only thing standing in the way. Evolution works perfectly fine without any direct intervention from any god, needlessly saying a god had a hand in it is violating Occam's Razor, and is therefore inferior logic.

  But, fortunately for theists, faith isn't based on logic.

• There is no conflict between creationism and the theory of evolution. The conflict lies between creationists and evolutionists. Really, sometimes people just get an idea stuck in their heads, and you can't make it budge with a crowbar.
• Of course, the two must coexist just as the natural laws of gravity exist. As living beings we are all subject to the Universal Karmic Principles which govern our environmental atmosphere. In fact, if you look closely at these words you may infer that it is the perceived value of time and distance which underlies the nature of this inquiry by the inquirer.

• No, both can't coexist, theory of evolution couldn't be proven to be applicable to any time era, for the following reasons:

  All human beings belong to one ancestor, Adam, and Adam himself was created from mud, God created Adam and Eve, who was created from Adam's left ribs, then when Adam woke up, he found her beside him, to be his partner in life after he felt so lonely.

  Moreover, the result of breeding of two animals of different species if any, is indeed sterile, can't reproduce, ie, no opportunity to give chance for a new species to develop. Another thing, the ordinary 'ants' we live with now, were found to be the same as ants found in fossils million years ago.

  All this leads to the conclusion that the origin of life, animals and human, is being created by God, and God alone, and that each type of animal was created separately, and that the similarity in the building block of living creatures, which is the cell, strengthens the evidence that only one creator did all that, a creator who is able to bring all this vast diversity of living creatures form one building block.

• That depends mostly on what you mean by "Evolution". Creationists have (for the most part) no problem believing in evolution in the sense of gene frequencies changing in a population. This is called microevolution and evidence for it can be found in the Bible itself. When God separated the people at Babel, it speaks nothing of Him changing their bodies, just their languages. Because of this they could not associate and went their separate ways A few thousand years later and we find various ethnicities. This sort of evolution can lead to speciation depending on what definition of a species is being used.

• One Important fact I think is missing is that in the defense of the creationists, when God created the world, each day he "saw that it was good" Therefore, implying that there not need be any change to any of his creation at all.

Creation

Evolution

Cause

God was the Cause

For every effect, there is a cause (observable)

There was not cause - 15 billion years ago for no know reason, the universe exploded itself into existence. Time, chance, and natural process created all things.

The creation of the universe is an effect with no cause (not observable).

Origin

The universe was spoken into existence by God's Word.

Matter cannot be created or destroyed by natural processes (observable).

Began with 'singularity', a tiny infinitely hot and dense point

Matter was created by a natural process (not observable).

Energy

We are devolving

Energy goes from a state of usable energy to less usable energy (observable).

We are evolving

Energy goes from a state of less usable energy to more usable energy (not observable).

Space

Earth created first (day 1)

Stars came afterwards (day 4) with the sun and moon.

Stars formed first

Earth formed afterwards

Earths

Covering

Water

Fire

Time Constraints

6 Days - The creation of the World was FINISHED in six day and is no longer taking place (observable).

Infinite Time - 4.6 billion years ago the earth evolved by natural processes. The world is in a continuous process of creation evolution (not observable).

Quality

Very Good

Primitive, Violent

Planning of

Life

By design

Accident

Origin of

Life

God

Life comes from life (observable), no known exceptions.

Forces of Nature

It is possible for life to come from non-life (not observable).

Time needed

for Life

2 Days (Faith based) - all animal/human life was created on day 5 and 6.

Millions of years (Faith based) - They don't know how it happened but given enough time they BELIEVE it will.

Species

Kind begets kind (observable).

Kind begets some other kind (not observable).

Animal Life

Birds first, then

Reptiles

Reptiles first, then

Birds

Human Life

Man was created on day six

Man is made in the image of God.

3.5 billion years ago life evolved

Humans evolved from ape-like creatures.

Beginning

of Death

After Adam sinned, not a process of creation - it is a product of man's sin.

Always been present, part of the creation process - the means by which man evolves into a higher being.

Cause of

Death

Sin, there was no death before Adam sinned (plant life not included), the breath of life was breathed into animals but not plants.

Natural process, existed from the beginning of life

Spiritual

Death

Both physical and spiritual, you will give an account of your life after you die.

Physical only, no accountability after death.

Sediment Layers,

Canyons

Form rapidly (liquefaction). Witnessed during Mt. St. Helen (observable).

Form slowly. No evidence witnessed (not observable).

Fossil Creation

Catastrophic event, rapid burial in water, (observable).

Buried by dust over long periods of time (not observable).

Marine fossils on

Mountains

Global flood, Genesis account

Rapid 40 day/night event

Springs of the deep broken up

All creation perished

All mountains covered by at least 20 ft.

About 200 legends from cultures all over the world.

Local floods, earth sinking into the ocean and rising again.

No written record or legend

Trees through

layers

Fossilized trees spanning many layers indicates rapid burial by water, observable with Mt. St. Helen. Can be created in one week (observable).

Over many years plant life died, sank into the earth, and coal formed (not observable).

Coal, Oil,

Petrified

Wood

Coal, Oil, Petrified Wood, can all be made in a matter of weeks, (observable).

Coal, Oil, Petrified Wood take millions of years to form (not observable).

Biblical Day

Recognize that the Biblical day means 24 hours and accept it as fact

Hebrew word "Yom", in all cases, means short period of time

defined to be evening and morning

days are distinguished between seasons and years (Genesis 1:14)

God's own word (Exodus 10:11)

writing style of Genesis is narrative, not poetic

genealogy of human race given

Some, recognize that the Biblical day means 24 hours but reject the account as a myth.

Others, interpret the Biblical definition of day to mean millions of years.

• In my humble opinion, yes. What if God created bacteria that was capable of Evolution?

1 Corinthians 12 says Christians are members of the Body of Christ, and it breaks it down with the imagery of actual body parts:

If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body," is it therefore not of the body? And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body," is it therefore not of the body? If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole werehearing, where would be the smelling? But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased. And if they were all one member, where would the body be? vv. 15-19

The great majority of people in Europe, Australia and New Zealand accept the Theory of Evolution. A recent poll in Canada shows 59 percent believe in evolution, 22 percent disagree and 19 percent are unsure. There is a great deal of dispute about the relative proportions in the United States, but somewhere around half the adult population also accepts the Theory of Evolution. Evolution is taught in Chinese, Japanese and Indian schools and, since Christianity is a minority religion in those countries, there is no reason for the people no to accept the facts of evolution. The majority of Muslims do not believe in the Theory of Evolution. Finally, in some underdeveloped countries, many people have not attended high school and are unlikely to understand the concept of evolution nor have an opinion on it.

Overall, the majority of people who have attended high school would believe in evolution.
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When discussing the creation in 6 days, the Bible is referring to seven "creative days", which were not literal 24 hour days.

To begin with, the earth was already formed when the "creative days" began.

Genesis 1:1, 2 states:

"1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and desolate, and there was darkness upon the surface of the watery deep, and God's active force was moving about over the surface of the waters."

Of note, a day to Jehovah God is a thousand years to mankind. (Psalms 90:2,4 & 2 Peter 3:8)

At Genesis 2:4, Moses refers to all six creative days as "one day", so what is a day?

On the seventh day, God entered his "rest". That day of rest is still going on, 6,000 years after the creation of Adam and Eve.

Without being told specifically on human terms, it is feasible that each "creative day" could have been as long as 6,000 years, but we do not know for sure.

Answer

The only according to scriptural accounts of God physically with Adam is in Genesis.

Genesis 2:7 - Then the LORD God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

Genesis 2:15 - The LORD God took the man and placed him in the garden of Eden to work it and watch over it.

Genesis 2:21 - So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to come over the man, and he slept. God took one of his ribs and closed the flesh at that place. 22 Then the LORD God made the rib He had taken from the man into a woman and brought her to the man.

Genesis 3:8-9 - Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and they hid themselves from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. 9 So the LORD God called out to the man and said to him, "Where are you?"

Genesis 3:21 The LORD God made clothing out of skins for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.

Here we have the LORD God forming the man, breathing into his nostrils, leading him, teaching him, performing surgery, forming a wife for the man, walking in the garden, seeking man, speaking to man, and forming clothing for man. All of these are very personal acts.

The LORD continued to make physical interactions with mankind in the Old Testament [for instance, He appeared as "The Angel of the LORD" to Hagar in Genesis 16:7-13 and Gideon in Judges 6:11-23 and as a man to Jacob in Genesis 32:28 [Note that Jacob was surprised in Genesis 32:30 to have actually see God face to face and live.]

In the account with Moses in Exodus 33:20, where God said "said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live", it is very important to look closer at Moses' request.

Moses in Exodus 33:18 asked "Please, let me see Your glory." This is not merely requested for God's presense but to see the complete fullness of the Godhead. The fullness of the Godhead, God's glory, would be unrestricted and

because His nature is all-powerful, sovereign, holy and just it would naturally be dangerous to sinful man. This is why the LORD said no one could see his face and live.

Answer

When God walked with Adam & Eve, they had not commited sin. The God I believe in cannot look upon sin. And we are born into sin because of the wrong Adam and Eve did. Not doing as God had commanded. Being born into sin is to be born into flesh. When they were cast from the Garden Of Eden that ended the visual relationship with men of flesh.

Exodus 33:20

33:20 And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.

Can God be seen? see link

Answer

Maybe Adam & Eve did not die because God showed them not His face, but His behind?

Exodus 33:22 And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by: 33:23 And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.

If you are referring to the Big Bang theory versus creationism in the bible then the views are very different.

The short and sweet answer is this...

Science bases its findings on things observed and tested.

Creationism is based on theology.

theology :

1. The study of the nature of God and religious belief.
2. Religious beliefs and theory when systematically developed: "Christian theology

Sometimes theology and science cross paths and the results are then set for interpretation. But when a scientist publish a paper , they show how they got their answers and is then up to the scientific community to test these findings and see how accurate the findings were/ are.

Case in point a Catholic Priest was the first to suggest the Big Bang.

Georges Lemaître, was a Belgian priest, astronomer and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Leuven. He made one of the greatest discoveries of all time. He not Edwin Hubble ,discovered the Big Bang. 2 years before Edwin Hubble published his papers on the Expanding Universe.

The Catholic church also agree's with the Theory of Evolution because of the science findings. The only difference they have on it is the human soul which they say can not be explained through science.

Indeed, current majority scientific theories for the foundation of the universe do not formally require an act of creation, or a creator, even though there is a logical gap in these theories that would be well filled by a creator (e.g. how was the big bang started?).

For most scientists, adding a creator into the theory would not be consistent with the scientific method they have adopted, at least until there was some way to positively demonstrate that there was a creator.

Since it is thought that it is not possible to prove scientifically that there is a creator, or is not a creator, there are two reasonable courses of action, either:

1. To assume that there is no god or creator, and to work on this assumption when developing one's theories; or
2. To assume that there is a god who is the creator, and to work on this assumption when developing one's theories.

The first course of action is open to both theists (those who believe there is a god) and non-theists, but the second is only open to theists. Since the widespread acceptance of the Big Bang theory, it is possible for both "sides" to approach the evidence in similar ways, although differences in the way the evidence is interpreted will remain.

God created humans (Genesis ch.1). This world is a purposeful creation by God, in which all people are tested concerning their use of free-will. We possess a soul which lives on after the body dies and is held responsible for the person's actions. Anyone who is worthy can merit reward in the afterlife.See also:

Is there evidence for Creation?

Can you show that God exists?

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