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Can evolution and Christianity be easily reconciled?
I know that many Christians accept evolution. Even though I am not a Christian, evolution seems like a solid fact to me. People who say it is "only a theory" don't understand the meaning of theory within the scientific context
I just have trouble believing that God set all of this in motion, sat back and watched for millions of years, and then, when things got messed up, impregnated a virgin to fix things
Further, people often site sin as the reason for suffering. It seems that a loving father would not want such suffering. However, in the "design" of evolution, suffering is inherent in existence. Since animals must kill to survive, then the "problem of evil" is no longer a problem.
This notion applies equally to people. Non-human animals hunt, people hunt. Non-human primates can invade other villages, kill all of the males, and take all of the females back to their village. We wage wars, rape the women, and take the land as well.
To not see the similarity between non-human primates and people is, in my opinion, to be willfully ignorant. Evolution just makes the most sense
Now, it is, of course, possible that there is a being called "god" that is watching all of this. But that seems to be all he is doing
10 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Actually the poped (forget which) gave catholics "permission" to believe in evolution. Sadly there are christians who take the adam and eve creation story literally...EVERY religion has a far fetch creation story that is a fable explaining the coming of humankind/ creation of the world. So no, there's no room for debate with those ppl despite the obvious facts
- 1 decade ago
First off evolution is still only a theory because in science nothing can be "proven" true because there may be more than one hypothesis that elicits the same results. For example gravity is still considered a theory even to this day. Secondly, your question deals more with ones perception of God than evolution itself. The same God that "impregnated a virgin" as you put it also sent the flood that wiped out all living creatures except for the small handful on the arc. He even gave us the rainbow to remind us he would never destroy us by water again. The theory of evolution dictates that over time all organisms developed from a less complex organism to a different organism. However it still poses the problem of where did the first creature come from? Pope John Paul the II stated that as humans we cannot understand all of God's tools and that evolution is one of them. There is evidence both for special creation theory and evolution and both of them have their own logical flaws.
- 1 decade ago
Why is it that when scientists discover how to do something supernatural they claim to be like the God that they say doesn't exist. Maybe because maybe He does exist and knew how to do the same supernatural phenomenon long before mankind learned it.
- MoiLv 71 decade ago
no - they are diametrically opposed
1Ti 6:20 ¶ O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane [and] vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
1Ti 6:21 Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace [be] with thee. Amen.
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
Well, the bible doesn't contradicts evolution because it implies that adam was made from dirt and eve from adams rib, and that they were created directly by god. They did not come from any evolutionary line.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
The loudest Christians will not allow it
But yes it can, and it can be easily reconciled.
Source(s): Agnostic, Post-Christian - FROG ELv 71 decade ago
christians accept the word of God as truth....if they don't believe it...I would doubt they are true christians.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Bible doesn't say i evolved from rock soup.
- David PrattLv 71 decade ago
King James Version Bible
John Chapter 5
43. I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
44. How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that [cometh] from God only?
Jeremiah Chapter 22
29. O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.
Genesis Chapter 1
1. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Job Chapter 26
7. He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, [and] hangeth the earth upon nothing.
Jeremiah Chapter 4
23. I beheld the earth, and, lo, [it was] without form, and void; and the heavens, and they [had] no light.
Genesis Chapter 1
2. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
[THE BIG BANG]
Genesis Chapter 6
4. There were GIANTS IN THE EARTH in those days; and also after that, when the SONS OF GOD came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare [children] to them, the same [became] mighty men which [were] of old, men of renown.
Book of Enoch: Chapter 7
1. It happened after THE SONS OF MEN had multiplied in those days, that daughters were born to them, elegant and beautiful.
2. And when the angels, THE SONS OF HEAVEN, beheld them, they became enamoured of them, saying to each other, Come, let us select for ourselves wives from the progeny of men, and let us beget children.
10. Then THEY TOOK WIVES, each choosing for himself; whom they began to approach, and with whom they cohabited; Teaching them sorcery, incantations, and the dividing of roots and trees.
11. And the women conceiving brought forth GIANTS,
12. Whose stature was each three hundred cubits. These devoured all which the labor of men produced; until it became impossible to feed them;
13. When they turned themselves against men, in order to devour them;
14. And BEGAN TO INJURE birds, beasts, reptiles, and fishes, to eat their flesh one after another, and to drink their blood.
The Book of Enoch: Chapter 8
9. And MEN, BEING DESTROYED, CRIED OUT; and their voice reached to heaven.
Book Jubilees Chapter 5
1. And it came to pass when the children of men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born unto them, that the angels of God saw them on a certain year of this jubilee, that they were beautiful to look upon; and they took themselves wives of all whom they chose, and they bare unto them sons and they were giants.
2. And lawlessness increased on the earth and all flesh corrupted its way, alike men and cattle and beasts and birds and everything that walks on the earth -all of them corrupted their ways and their orders, and they began to devour each other, and lawlessness increased on the earth and every imagination of the thoughts of all men (was) thus evil continually.
3. And God looked upon the earth, and behold it was corrupt, and all flesh had corrupted its orders, and all that were upon the earth had wrought all manner of evil before His eyes.
4. And He said that He would destroy man and all flesh upon the face of the earth which He had created.
5. But Noah found grace before the eyes of the Lord.
Book of Jasher Chapter 4
18. And their judges and rulers went to the daughters of men and took their wives by force from their husbands according to their choice, and the sons of men in those days took from the cattle of the earth, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air, and TAUGHT THE MIXTURE OF ANIMALS of one species with the other, in order therewith to provoke the Lord; and God saw the whole earth and it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted its ways upon earth, all men and all animals.
21. And Noah found grace in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord chose him and his children to raise up seed from them upon the face of the whole earth.
Genesis Chapter 6
17. And, BEHOLD, I, even I, DO BRING A FLOOD of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein [is] the breath of life, from under heaven; [and] every thing that [is] in the earth shall die.
[The ABOMINATIONS aka “Dinosaurs” were destroyed along with the Giants.]