Do Christians believe in Evolution?

I hate to be the one to break this to you, but we hardly live in a perfect world. This should be proof enough for any sane individual that this whole God thing... it's nothing but a bunch of moldy baloney.

I can not claim to be a Christian - but I am sure that some Christians also believe in evolution. Not all so-called Christians are alike.

Nature seems perfect even in it different seasons. Wouldn't it be boring if we had no fall, or spring? Perfection is not a static thing. How would I know love if hate never existed?

Yesterday I was different than I am today. I have aging as a factor and I don't think that the bible is really about evolution even if man is or claims it to be.

The bible, to me, is about trying to be good to yourself and others and such things as who came first the chicken or the egg is a mind game.

The bible might be considered to be your parents trying to teach you how and what to expect in your journey through life.

Most put too much mysticism behind many confusing statements within it and take everything for the final answers.

There are instruction and lessons but the student needs to find the answers to the riddles.

A tadpole becomes a frog, is that not evidence of a short cycle of evolution?

Hope this has been a help.

Yes, most Christians do, worldwide. Mainstream sects hold that evolution is the mechanism that God chose to unveil his creation. Catholicism and Anglicanism, for instance. Any sensible & reasonably educated Christian feels more or less that way as well, because the evidence is incontrovertible that evolution is the source of the diversity of life on Earth.

It's one thing to believe in something that doesn't have solid evidence one way or another (e.g., God), but it's something else entirely to believe something that's conclusively disproved by the evidence (e.g., Young-Earth Creationism).

As to this chicken-and-egg issue, I think you might be barking up the wrong tree here. Any way you look at it, the entire universe he created is imperfect, so anything God created could be imperfect. It matters very little that a given process within it is imperfect, given that.

not a paradox.

This is completely based on the assumptions that evolution = imperfection, and that god cannot create imperfection.

The first assumption makes no sense whatsoever and the second is self-contradictory.

If God is perfect, the he should be powerful enough to make imperfection if he wished. Secondly, if god created man, and imperfect creation, god must be able to create imperfection. Furthermore, when you create the idea of perfection, you must also create opposite concept- imperfection. Like how good cannot be good unless there is evil to compare it to.

Chicken and the egg is also not a paradox since evolution answered it hundreds of years ago.

Most Christians believe in evolution, and since most of the world is christian, most "evolutionists" are christian.

How rediculous and silly!

Does a mechanic not use wrenches?

Why do you think god would not use tools?

The Pope, Catholic Church, Church of England and mainstream churches all accept the big bang and evolution!

Lord Carey the former Archbishop of Canterbury put it rather well – “Creationism is the fruit of a fundamentalist approach to scripture, ignoring scholarship and critical learning, and confusing different understandings of truth”!

Nice that christians and atheists can agree and laugh together even if it is at fundie expense!

But behind the laughter is the despair at the fundamentalists striving so hard to destroy christianity by turning it from a religion to an ideology!

Surveys suggest that 29% of American christians are so extremist in their beliefs that they fall well outside of the accepted bounds of christianity!

At least half of the christians in the U.S. believe in evolution, also believing that evolution was one of Gods methods of creation, thus seeing no contradiction between belief in God and belief in evolution. The other half will claim that the believers in evolution are not real christians. I doubt that more then 5% of them have even taken basic high school biology.

first i do not believe in god. second if i did i see no reason not to believe evolution as well. it is not a refute of god it simply, if he exists, is an illustration of the method he used. the bible is very old and even if, which i highly doubt, the writings in the bible came straight from god who is to say the people that wrote them down understood what they were told, that is not to mention the thousands of years of translation after translation inaccuracies.

Some Christians believe in what is loosely known as "theistic evolution", i.e. that God created all the building blocks and set the "machine" in motion but did not create each creature. I find that concept unscriptural and indefensible on both levels (scientific and spiritually).

As a creationist, I can answer the chicken/egg dilemma for you - the chicken came first.

God wouldnt wanna make things pop up right?

He still has to make things come one by one.

Is it possible for you to be born as an adult?

Worldwide, most do.

There is no basis for assuming that evolution can only happen in an imperfect world.