How can a person have faith in god but no faith in evolution?

What's hypocritical is that the people denying science are using a computer to do so.:-)

I'm sure they also avail themselves of antibiotics which are created based upon the WORKING evolutionary model. It's the very backbone of modern biomedicine.

Evolution is also where the evidence is. Creationism is in direct contradiction to the evidence.

In other words, it takes some really narrow minded, willfully ignorant people to deny evolution.

agreed.

For the answer above me about the body being so complex..agreed it is but very explainable. Look at anything...starts out simple and then grows more complex and sophisticated. Why could God not have made life and used evolution as it's tool to make it grow and adapt to the world? I have no idea why people are so petrified that God might not have snapped fingers and <poof> present day humans were there

Anyway believe or not but until someone can give me a real, scientific, reasonable explination with evidence to support it I will take Evolution as it is the best idea we have right now

Irish Lass:: that is because you are confusing the layman's term thoery with the scientific term Theory..they are different and if talking about Theory of Evolution then it is using the scientific useage.

I assume you are talking of the modern theory of evolution (Modern evolutionary synthesis). The problem with this is that it really works well as a theory, but it falls short of answering the question "what is the purpose of life?"

That is answered by faith. Faith in God transcends the theory of evolution. Evolution can't and won't explain everything that faith can. Evolution is based on scientific method. Faith is based on knowing what is supernatural, which is beyond what science can grasp.

Some people care to know where they go when they die, either heaven or hell. Some don't care because science does not prove that you go somewhere because it cannot detect that there is something in man that lives on (soul/spirit).

I have faith in God.

I don't have faith in evolution. Instead, I accept evolution as the most satisfying explanation for the available facts in paleontology, comparative DNA, and comparative mtDNA. There is such overwhelming evidence for exactly what Darwin describes - life changing over time to adapt through selection - that faith never comes into it. Only fact does.

It seems absurd that anyone even clings to the idea of God as an incompetent architect, somehow incapable of any form of creation other than "special creation" of each and every kind of creature, one by one. God can create however he likes, and none of us can stop him. If the evidence shows it happened through evolution, then we have to have the humility to accept that our patrimony may include distant monkey-like ancestors. Our inability to accept that does not come from faith, which has never required belief in one by one creation of species; it comes from pride - who wants to picture a cousin in a zoo flinging feces?

A note about the cambrian:

First of all it is a lie to say there are no transitional forms into the Cambrian period. First of all, the Cambrian period illustrates only the rise of skeletal life - creatures with hard parts. Life had been in existence for billions of years. Even multi-cellular life was well established by this time. The transformation at this demarcation point is an adaptation that allowed creatures to thrive in a way they hadn't before. More importantly, it allowed them to fossilize in a way they hadn't before. Soft tissues rarely fossilize.

Nonetheless - make no mistake - there are transitional fossils to this time period. The Ediacaran fauna of the late precambrian era contains a number of soft bodied creatures, some related, some not to the Cambrian forms.

What is more important, while there is an abundance of life emerging in Cambrian fossils, none of it is modern life, other than jellyfish and sponges. The forms you see are much, much more primitive than modern forms - with the arthropods, for instance, you see only the long-extinct trilobyte and sea scorpions (which had not yet evolved to going on land.) Lobsters and crabs are nowhere to be found.

The cephalopods - the octopuses and squids - you don't find them. It will take to the Ordovician for anything like what we know today to exist, and even then, these octopus like creatures have a long conical shell.

I wish people would learn the difference between the fact of biological evolution and the theory of the mechanisms involved-the word theory is a straw for the creationists to clutch at. They latch onto it and think that theory means evolution is somehow in question when in fact there is no doubt whatsoever that evolutionary change in species occurs. Only how and why it occurs are subject to any conjecture and even then there is no competing theory to Darwin's. You just have to look at some of the answers above to realise you're dealing with people that have total ignorance of what biological evolution even entails.

Evolution is just a theory, and has not been proven. It has actually been disproven if you look at the facts. The idea that somehow an accident or random selection gathered Amino acids together in just the right order with just the right information is like believing that you could roll a million dice and have all one million land on a corner, not one lie flat.

We have irreducably complex machines within our own bodies that create motion, receive information and carry out needed movements within our bodies, these machines have multiple moving parts that work together to perform a function. This can not be explained through evolution.

I believe science is a wonderful thing, I just don't believe in theories that are fanciful and make no common sense. I enjoy string theory but I don't know it's real, I believe that looking at our bodies and trying to see how best to cure illness make good sense. I also know people who have be diagnosed with terminal cancer and through prayer before treatment they were cured.

Even doctors understand that prayer can help people to heal.

I understand the fact that you can be mislead to believe what you consider to be intelligent people say about theories. Why would you not understand why we believe in the wisdom the God that created those people to be correct.

Listen if you won't facts, check out "A Case For A Creator" by Lee Strobel he was an atheist before he looked at the science. I hope you can have faith in the truth, not just in men.

Irreducible complexity is a joke. The metaphor for it is that a mousetrap is irreducibly complex because it could have only been created for its specific purpose. The truth is that the parts of a mousetrap (or the proteins in the body to which the metaphor refers) have plenty of uses, and that these irreducibly complex mechanisms were synthesised from preexisting proteins that served different functions.

Faith is defined as belief without evidence or reason. There are tons of evidence for evolution. Evolution is one of the most solid fact based theories in all of science. God on the other hand has no credible evidence. So the answer is yes: Belief in god is necessarily based on faith while belief in evolution is not based on faith.

Exactly. It is just one of the many problems of creationism in this debate. However, most religious people aren't that stupid, and follow the doctrines of Theistic Evolution. The Catholic Church, The Jews, the Left-Wing Christians, etc.

But yeah, I agree with you that it doesn't make sense.

Evolution is a shotty, overblown theory at best, scientifically unsound and even further from being proven. I look at it as Mankind's new Terracentric theory - 99% wrong. It's a theory that spits in the face of many Scientific -Laws- which last time I checked were a little more pertinent. I don't know of any piece of literature with half the plot holes as the theory of evolution. It's bad, controversial science contradicting good, dependable science and throwing it around like some grand truth is a grevious mistake for any scientist to make.