I want to hear your reasoning and this doesn’t necessarily mean the Bible and evolution have to coexist as both true. It could be that most of the Bible is wrong and perhaps Jesus was the son of God.
All I know is that evolution is true and it contradicts the literal interpretation of the Bible which is the only interpretation that makes sense to me. Prove me wrong and I would thank you.
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Consider this
Mysteries In Sciencehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zTXxpXOo…
The Young Age of the Earthhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=…
The Origin of Man by Dr. Duane Fingerprints of Creationhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=…
Gishhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3FZDysZK…
The Origins of Lifehttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=…
Creation In The 21st Century From Where did these Layers Come (From) 1 of 3 (Global Flood)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZyoXQJ5A…
Creation in the 21st Century – Overwhelming Evidence 1 of 3http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o226umqLd…
Skull Fossils – As Empty as the Evolutionary Theoryhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yu5jN897…
Neanderthals – Smarter Then We Thoughthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxL636n3w…
Our Solar System: Evidence For Creationhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=…
I don’t know how to ‘prove’ this to you. I can only say that in most of Europe, most Christians accept evolution. The pope accepts evolution, the Archbishop of Canterbury accepts evolution.
Your problem appears to derive from your sense that the Bible must be ‘literally’ true. Why do you feel this way? Almost every Jew in the world (of which I’m one) and the majority of Christians understand those creation stories in Genesis as metaphorical – telling us a great truth about the nature of our relationship with G-d, but not intended in any way to be literal truth. To force wonderful symbolic stories into mundane literalism seems to me to demean their force and wonder. If you insist on literality, it’s all a bit flat, not to mention some awkward contradictions. As soon as you accept metaphor (used in every ancient writing we know of), a rich and glorious world opens up. Then, the sense of the divine can resonate deeply within us rather than being mind-based, reductionist and more about guilt and difficulty.
Evolution has nothing to do with the origin of life. It describes a process that occurs post-origin.
The only theological stance that evolution interferes with is Creationism. Otherwise, the theory of evolution and Christianity are fully compatible. Same with the Big Bang.
The Bible expresses eternal truth. In this way, nothing within it is wrong, even if there are some thing that don’t agree with science. Science and faith are incompatible and defy comparison, despite so many people arguing endlessly about it. Those who do so fail to understand the nature of one, the other or both of them.
God bless you.
Of course the two can coexist. Ones spirituality or religious beliefs do not have to be dependent on dispelling the fact that evolution exists. Does it mean man evolved from apes? Absolutely not.
Scientists continue to search for answers to questions, as do Christians or any other “religion”. To assume one has all the answers without ever questioning is a sign of ape-like behavior, just accepting what someone else tells you as the truth. Scientific fact is proven. The Bible is based on some historical facts. Other than that, it is left up to individual interpretations.
I was raised in the Catholic Church (Christian, for those of you who are too ignorant to acknowledge that fact), and I was exposed to the theory that the Bible contains parables so that people could understand the content. Well, that makes more sense to me than anything I’ve run across in some 50 years of my life. And I’m always seeking answers.
I believe that adaptation and Christianity coexist. Adaptation is really just a form of evolution. I believe that God is there teaching us things though. Otherwise, how would humans know what manners are? How would we know that it is wrong to kill your brother? I believe there is enough geological evidence to say that evolution occurs to a degree. After all, no one said that Adam and Eve looked like modern humans. No one said that all the animals were the exact same then as they are now. I believe that God certainly controls evolution though, and I do not believe that humans came from monkeys. I hope this helped!
Yes, the facts revealed by science do contradict some unauthoritative personal interpretations of the Bible. Which simply means that such interpretations are WRONG. Why should this come as a surprise, given that the beliefs of each Protestant denomination contradict the beliefs of the others, yet all such beliefs supposedly came right out of the Bible! Truth cannot contradict truth, so it is obvious that many of the beliefs such denominations are preaching are WRONG! Why not just be humble enough to look at the scientific evidence honestly, and say, “gee, maybe my biblical interpretations aren’t infallible after all”. Instead of stubbornly clinging to biblical interpretations that any rational person knows are wrong since they contradict objective reality!
How would it be possible to discard the Bible as mostly wrong and still hold to the fact that Jesus is the Son of God? What parts are right and what parts are wrong? If the fist book of the Bible cannot be trusted to be true in it’s literal interpretation then none of the Bible can be trusted. God would then either not exist or he is a lier. For the simple fact is that the God of the Bible and evolution cannot both be true. You cannot change the meaning of the Bible to make it compatible with evolution without making it untrustworthy in every part.
I’m not going to try and convince you that evolution is wrong because I simply don’t have the time for that right now, but if you want to discuss this further email me sometime and we can talk in more detail. All I will say is that I believe that the Bible is the inerrant word of God and is to be trusted in every part and interpretend literally, God is true and evolution is not. They cannot coexist.
“All I know is that evolution is true and it contradicts the literal interpretation of the Bible”
That’s correct.
“which is the only interpretation that makes sense to me”
I can hardly tell you what interpretations will make sense to you, but many people find that allegorical or other interpretations make sense to them.
Evolution (both macro and micro forms) are ways that God goes about the business of creating in the universe.
Also, it’s quite possible to be a Christian and NOT be a Biblical literalist. A good many Christians are not Biblical literalists and also have no problem with evolution.
Including the one who just wrote this answer.
Ok, first i would ask you the question how do you know evolution is true? Then i would like to simply say, personally, i do not believe evolution is true. Because simply it just doesn’t work it involves a lot of circular reasoning. It also takes more to believe a theory that its founder denounced before his death; than it does to believe an almighty God spoke the world into existence. Feel free to send me an e-mail with your views and comments.
hmm very good question…
There are actually a lot of scientists that dont agree 100% with evolution and their motives are not “religion” based. Here is some information:http://www.darwinismandid.com/questions/…http://www.dissentfromdarwin.org/http://www.scienceagainstevolution.org/t…
The thing is, people blindly believe what they are taught, whether it be
creationism or evolution.
I think you need to remember how technologically inferior people were when the bible was written. In science today humans are growing organs out of laboratories and doing some amazing things that people in biblical times would have thought “god-like”. So i think it is definitely possible the world was created by god. in some cases in the bible you can find modern scientific knowledge e.g. when god tells Moses and his peeps about basic hygiene “do not eat shellfish, do not spill your seed on the ground” etc.
There are renouned scientists that are also ministers for religion. Which for some reason people believe is conflicting. obviously these scientists have come to their own conclusion regarding evolution and god and I think people should also do independent study and draw their own conclusions.
My opinion is some elements of both theories can coexist.
Im going to finish with 2 Tolstoy quotes:
“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking;”
You will die – and it will all be over. You will die and find out everything – or cease asking.
How can you call evolution true when Stephen Jay Gould said himself that there isn’t enough evidence in the fossil record to support evolution? It’s a good things penguins are still alive or else you’d be telling me that humans came from birds just because they walk upright.
The bible is 100% true my friend, hopefully you will open your mind a little more.
It depends whether you consider the bible to be a reliable source of historical fact. Biblical creationism is supported by no objective evidence whatever. It is supported by nothing except two chapter of Genesis.
Evolution, on the other hand, is supported by a huge body of tangible evidence and observation.
If you believe that evolution is true then how did you get the knowledge and the intelligence to accept the facts as evidence?
Assuming you are an intelligent human being, and you are able to think for yourself.
Did your intelligence and knowledge evolve from nothing? Or, has some one given you a brain to think and evaluate the knowledge and life experiences?
The problem is that the bible and the church didn’t realize our capacity as a species to learn about the world around us. We discover more every decade about our universe that disproves biblical references.
And the church changes it’s story every time something new comes out. They believed the Earth was thousands of years old. Then we found out its Millions of years old.
I think we’ll get to the point in the future where science will disprove Christianity. And then the Christians will have nothing left to fall back on except to say that science is wrong and the work of the devil.
No the two cannot exist. All the major doctrines of Christianity goes back to Genesis 1-11 which was written to be taken literally as it should be. Evolution is a lie taught to control people. The proof you seek can be found at answersingenesis.org or com. or christiananswers.net. evolution cannot be proven and will not be because it is a lie. Where are Darwin’s intermediate fossils?
All science points to the inerrancy and truethfullness of the Bible.
If you only believe in the literal interpretation then by implication, you are dismissing all of Jesus’ teachings, since he taught mostly by telling parables.
The bible consists of verses that have a literal and symbolic meaning, therefore, there is no reason for a Christian to not be true to his faith and to accept evolution as a natural process of change.
Christianity is a belief that following the teachings of Jesus is the way to live the good life.
Love your God above all and your neighbor as yourself.
Jesus himself said that was really all you needed to know. The rest is commentary.
And science is science. Like it or not, its methods give it an insurmountable edge over interpretation of ancient texts as a way to build a cosmology.
wow. you know for sure that evolution is true.
ok, then I rest my case oh wise one. were you around a million years ago? a thousand? has anybody ever been able to witness a case of something evolve accross species lines?
I’ll tell you what I believe, Evolution is hogwash and the Bible is true and the two cannot coexist. End of story.
i do not belive in the bible nor any religeon either, but some arguements i have heard inclede “god created the opportunity for nature to evolve itself to create an organism that is just right.” like leaving jelly to set.
other smart *** religeous people may answer the statement “the big bang was the creation of the universe” with “well who made the big bang”
http://www.faceeternity.com/bible.htm
-evidence for Bible from medicine, history……..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
-theory of relativity, big bang n religion go hand in hand.
Science n religion go hand it hand. Truth is that which is in accordance to reality. There is a spiritual realm, n its not subjective n in our brains!!
With a bit of science u can disprove religion, with a lot you can proove it. One has to be ignorant of many facts to reject truth.
Yes. What if God invented evolution. Our main problem is literal interpretation. Is mankind perfect? Who put pen to paper? Who chose the passages? If your answer is God told them what to do, then think about this, He is telling me to tell you they can coexist because of him. Did not even God change from the old to the new testament?
The bible is to be taken metaphorically (my belief) so these stories don’t disprove the bible. They didn’t have the technology that we have, so they pass down these made up stories to explain things such as the creation and ect.
evolution is still considered a theory.
you can’t prove anyone wrong about religion because belief requires faith not proof.
Your belief in evolution requires faith as well because the big bang and primordial sout, etc. had to come from somewhere.
I don’t really care if it does or it doesn’t. It’s up to the Christians to reconcile the 2 ideas.
To me, evolution is part of science and bible is part of mythology.
The way I see it The Bible is an allegory, with many parallels in many other civilizations. Evolution is, simply put, the best what we know now. History hows us that we are never right, so stay skeptical.
What if God created everything to evolve? The Bible is basically a guideline towards leading a “good spiritual” life.
Evolution is part of life, and God created life.
Yes.
Genesis is a parable, like much of the rest of the Bible.
Think about it: Jesus always spoke in parables, so does God.
No, evolution contradicts creationism. It’s obvious your having mixed feelings, I used to think about this very subject. good luck
what truth value
look, i’m willing to admit that there are variations within a species (2-headed albino snakes) but any deal that says that any species has evolved into another is blasphemy.
Some people believe that evolution is one of the many power of gods. Gives you something to think about, doesn’t it?