I do have faith in God, but lately discussions about creationism and evolution have been making me think.\nI do believe that God did things so I can have a better afterlife, but sometimes I find it hard not to believe in evolution. It makes sense on alot of levels. Anyone dealing with this also? Any opinions. \n\nPlease no negative ones.\nIf all you have to say is negative, please do not waste space and time and have me read something that is just going to annoy me, thanks.
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The Bible tells us Who. Science tries to tell us how (& there are many "hows" that science has figured out). Evolution is just a theory (not a proven fact), it is PoliticallyCorrect (so it is probably theologically wrong) - but it is an attempt to explain how God may have designed His creation.\n\nIn any event, the speculation is not worth much time or worry - it is not a criteria for God's Salvation by His Grace based on true faith (acceptance of His Salvation & acceptance of His Lordship, to be a disciple to seek to do His will). Scriptural fact:\n\nTrue Faith + God's Grace = His Salvation\n\nEvolution (or any other process of creation) is not a belief factor in the equation for Salvation. It doesn't matter if you think green is the prettiest color, or if you think orange is the prettiest color, or some other color - that is not a factor in God's Salvation, either. 'Faith + Grace = Salvation' is a time-tested formula - since Abraham - & it still works the SAME way. Because God is unchanging, His Word is unchanging, His Law is unchanging, His Salvation is unchanging.
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I'm an athiest as well.  Religion just didnt do it for me as i got older.  I guess i leaned more toward science.  I have no problem with there not being an afterlife.  Seriously, why have 2 lifes?  One here and one in heaven?  Just doesnt make sence.  And why does there need to be a god?  I think people just need a crutch to lean on in times of need.  But let me ask this, when you try and do something good, is it for your fellow man, or to make god happy?
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I think it's so funny that so-called scholars believe in evolution.  I say let them believe, that just shows how stupid they are.  If evolution were true, I ask who caused it to start, I would still give God the credit.  If there was a "big bang", then it was God that caused it.
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This has been an oft aksed question on Y! Answers. You can see all answers at \n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result;_ylt=AkdeQT7qgfnFBjS2.OhiGYojzKIX?p=does+god+exist\n\nthe ones that were best are here:\n\n1. User le_penseur\n\nOk. There are a couple obvious answers that everyone gives--number 1: how can a good God exist with bad stuff happening? [I think it's interesting that people always assume that if God exists, he's good. I tend to agree with them--if God isn't good, he's just a really big version of us, right?)\nnumber 2: How can life exist without God? [that's a pro-God argument, just to clarify.] So, to deal with both answers...number one is pretty interesting. I think the answer (if one can honestly be written!) has a few parts to it. First, bad stuff happens because bad people do it. Murders require murderers. So...why does God [if he exists] allow people to do bad stuff? Or, why are bad people allowed to exist under an all-powerful God? If we assume there is a God, than the answer is a very interesting answer indeed--FREE CHOICE, under an all-powerful God. We have the right to make our lives better, or worse. With the assumption of a good God, and the evidence of a bad world, the conclusion is that we've chosen to go for the worse, and everyone suffers [but then, nobody's perfect, so everyone contributes to everyone else's suffering, too. Not a very pretty picture, but there's at least some truth in it. I'll let you decide how much.]\nAnswer number two is pretty controversial these days [most things are.] So. Can life exist without God? I've heard evolution and intelligent design theories. Many people find intelligent design insulting to their intelligence. I like an awful lot of evolution, but it just doesn't answer all of my questions. How did the eyeball manage to evolve from a series of small, random steps? Each part is dependent on the other, they don't just blossom out in complexity from a simple, functioning core structure. I'm not saying I don't believe in evolution--there's evidence it works. I just don't think it works universally. So--does that mean intelligent design is the answer? Hm...not necessarily. A lack of knowledge is not proof of impossibility. But I wouldn't rule it out. Does intelligent design, or--dare I say it--guided evolution, prove the existence of God? I wouldn't say it proves the existence of God. I would say it presents some very interesting questions. Ultimately, everyone really does have to decide for themselves. Scientifically, the Universe is a big place with a lot of unanswered, and possibly unanswerable, questions. God is an awfully big explanation. Spiritually, from the point of assuming God exists, what God asks for is Faith. He says so in the Bible (yes, I'm operating from an incriminatingly Western view point. Cut me some slack.) So, you've got to decide for yourself. You probably guessed this already, but yes, I believe in God. A friend of mine suggested that what improved my life and what I prayed to was really the better side of me that I didn't believe existed and therefore projected as God. I found the idea rather interesting and talked it over with God a few times before deciding He really was God, but like I said--a lot of these things really tie into faith. Thank you for a VERY interesting question, and I'm sorry for a VERY long answer. Tell me what you think. \n\n2.User Soham\n\nIt's seem to be a interesting question. Personaly, I think GOD exist. When Newton gave the law of gravational force or other astrnomy laws. Neither he nor we saw the graviational force but we feel the effect of gravitational force. If the certain things does not see it doesn't mean that this things doesn't exit. As we know that in our environment water molecules are exist but we cannot see. If we want to see we have to apply some procedure. \n\nIf you want to see the GOD you c
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I believe in God but not in the traditional sense. To be honest, I've asked your very same question many times before. To understand it, I looked around me to see the natural order of life; how things worked and the cycles there are. Personally, I don't believe we were created in God's image. I don't believe that we are his only creation or his/her greatest creation, for that matter. The way I choose to view creation is simple; every thing is purpose oriented. Like a sports team, every player/ component/ creature, is an equally important part. Our lives however grand or simple, are part of an incomprehensible mass of life called creation. Creation being every thing from the stars to the microscopic germs on our hands. All things are of different masses and scales. The only thing that all things share is that, they exist. Think of it this way; solar systems are comprised of planets, galaxies comprised of solar systems, a universe comprised of galaxies. We and the world we live in are a small piece of possibly an infinite space. I don't know what our purpose is in life but all I know is, we are supposed to be alive. Every piece of all creation, is like a gear in a machine; each gear turning the other to make some thing move or react. It would be very egotistical and narrow-minded to believe that we are all that there is. Especially considering there is evidence to support the contrary. Every time you see a dog, bird, cat, cow, worm, what ever, that tells you that we're not all that there is. Heck, every time more dinosaur fossils are dug-up, that proves there was life, long before we existed. So we are just another in a long line of creatures. No more or no less special than our predecessors or our future successors. I view our lives as part of an experiment. God wants to know what we'll do; what things we will discover; what horrors we will create, how long we will last, how far we will take our selves. To what end? I don't know. But we, like every thing else, exists to simply live. We do what we want with our life. In my opinion, God does not feel good or bad about the things we do. He/she wants to know how things pan out. We're important to he/she because we are a part of him/her. God is some thing we cannot really understand. God is our creator but beyond that, that's all we know. What is the use of God, you ask? What is the use of anything? To me, to be alive is use enough. We have the ability to do great things. Our lives are what we make of them. God or the idea of God, perhaps is a constant reminder that there is always some thing beyond what we know. In a way, that guides us to the answers to our questions. Well, that's not a diffinitive answer in the least but I'll say this; if I did have the answer, I'd be a very rich man!
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I have responded to the 'creationist' argument on a number of occasions.\n\nBasically people like to argue based on a premise that cannot be argued (i.e. prove God doesn't exist and wasn't responsible ... obviously impossible to prove).\n\nIn terms of the whole creationist argument I agree that evolution is flawed (remember though the Bible is CLEARLY flawed as it is contradictory and suggests behaviour that would get you arrested today) but it makes much more sense to an independent person (if there is such a thing) than the whole 'man in the sky got bored one day and knocked up a planet'.\n\nWhile arguing the whole fossils give incomplete record thing they never seem to explain the existence of dinosaurs which, for some reason, seem to get very low coverage in the Bible.\n\nOverall I am happy to respect other peoples rights to their beliefs but not necessarily their beliefs ... I would hope they would do me the courtesy of the same.  The problem with most creationists is that they infer stupidity on the part of non believers.\n\nPeace out
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No evidence of God, this is the point.  It's about belief despite there being no proof.  \n\nI don't believe in God but I don't think that even if there was one anyone could prove the existence..\n\nUsing the human body as 'evidence' is just farcical - yes, it did happen through evolution - look at all the mistakes along the way!  Look at all the barren planets and planetless suns if you want proof that life isn't premeditated - it takes a lot of chances to come together to create life, not a 'creator'.\n\nBesides, if there is a creator I don't think much of 'his' design - bit faulty.  Too prone to disease, accident and mental disorder.\n\nYES I BELIEVE DARWIN as do most sane people.  It's ludicrous to expect people actually to believe that some creator built a world in seven days - here we have actual proof, not stories, of what happened.  Besides, for those of you who seem to think that the world was made by God, who made God?  You're question (which you seem to think is so unanswerable) about 'do you think you just popped into being' should be turned to 'God' - so 'God' just popped into being, hmmm?  The earth developed by itself - it was not created.
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While it's certainly nice to want to embrace some of the tenets of Christianity the cost of actually believing is far too great.\n\nI could never put aside my belief in reason and embrace intolerance just because some book has levied a threat against disbelief.\n\nEvolution is undeniable. We see it at work every day. Dog breeds, anti-biotic resistant strains of germs are both evidence in favor of evolution. I know, I know microevolution versus macroevolution. However, seeing it in any capacity lends credence to the greater argument. \n\nOur knowledge base is still in its infancy. Six-hundred years ago the Earth was flat and the center of the universe. Now we know better. What will we discover in the next six-hundred years?
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Wow.  There is a staggering amount of ignorance exhibited in this thread.\n\nEvolution can be taught as science because it actually *is* science. Intelligent Design/Creationism is merely a faith based leap to "God did it!" Science is about observing, modelling, and predicting the universe around us.  Creationism is closing your eyes to the world and explaining everything by magic.\n\nHere's part of an answer I posted in another thread that addresses many of the same questions raised and misinformation spewed by some of the responses\nabove:\n\n---------\nThe trouble with most Creationists- scratch that. ONE of the troubles with most Creationists is that they seldom actually argue against evolution as it really is, but against straw-man charicatures of evolution. Rather than actually educating themselves about the subject they ask inane questions like "If man evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?" and then pat themselves on the back thinking they've scored points rather than revealing their ignorance about the subject. And then the choir they are preaching to nod their heads and agree.\n\nHere's a few simple things to remember:\n\n1. Evolution is NOT the study of how life began.\nhttp://www.origins.tv/darwin/abiogenesis.htm#Origins\n\n2. Evolution does NOT say man came from monkeys.\nhttp://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/\n\n3. There will be no "intermediary forms" if by that you expect to see a half-this/half-that critter, nor does evolution say there should be.\nhttp://www.origins.tv/darwin/transitionals.htm\n\n4. Evolution is not incompatible with religious faith. Plenty of scientists believe in both God and evolution. It is only incompatible with the literalist view of Genesis espoused by young earth creationists. Of course, these folks' views run counter to geology, physics, paleontology, archeology, and astronomy as well.\nhttp://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/interpretations.html\nhttp://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-god.html\n\n\n5. While there is vigorous debate about some of the mechanisms and features of evolution, there is no doubt in the scientific community that evolution is real. OF COURSE you will find some cranks out there on the fringe who will fight against evolution (most making a tidy living giving talks to fundamentalist religious groups), just like there are historians who insist the Holocaust didn't occur. Every large enough group will have it's nutballs.\nhttp://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/credentials.html\nhttp://www.talkorigins.org/origins/faqs-creationists.html\nhttp://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/quotes/\nhttp://home.entouch.net/dmd/moreandmore.htm\nhttp://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/edwards-v-aguillard/amicus1.html\n\n\n6. Yes, speciation has been observed.\nhttp://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-speciation.html\n\n7. "Theory" means something entirely different in scientific language than in colloquial use. In science, a theory is a well-tested model of how things work, not "just a guess."\nhttp://www.skeptictank.org/hs/factfaq.htm\n\n8. Evolution is not guided solely by random chance.\nhttp://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/chance.html\n\nI personally don't care if somebody wants to believe that God, Allah, or the Tooth Fairy created the universe. What does bother me are those people who argue against a "cartoon" view of evolution because they feel that it threatens their faith, or because they are too lazy to learn what evolution is before choosing to try and smear it.\nSource(s):\n\nhttp://www.talkorigins.org/\nhttp://wiki.cotch.net/index.php/Main_Page\nhttp://www.origins.tv/darwin/evolution.htm\n----------------------\n\n\nFollowup:  Ummm.... You DO understand that Darwin was *ages* ago, and that the field of evolution has advanced light years beyond his notions right?  Darwin's ideas were formed in the 1830s-1850s, and he was unaware of genetics, radiometric dating, protein synthesis, plate tectonics, and a host of ot
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I read the answer to the question "How did marsupials get to Australia?" and the article "The Grand Canyon, Things That Make Evolutionists Look Stupid". Is it the same people that say evolutionists have no evidence and that their explanations are ridiculous? Whoa!\n\nGood to know that several christian churchs/organizations accept evolution as a valid theory and that it doesn't contradict their belief. And I wonder too, is it ok for christians to lie in such shameless ways?
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Faith is belief without proof. I can't speak for all Christians, but I don't think I'm any better than anybody else. For that matter, I don't KNOW that I picked the right religion, I just believe I did. Can't prove it, can't disprove it, I just believe it. I do agree with some of the "idiots" that CONSTANTLY question religion, though. Some of the pseudo-christians on here are more conceited than saved.
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Hey hun.  Unfortunately, there are no sure answers to any of your questions -- at least, none that the general population agrees with.  Most scientists agree that evolution is how we came to look the way we do and that yes, we did evolve from primates.  But many of them do not find comfort in God and are skeptical about His existence.\n\nDo you think creationism makes sense?  Are you a religious person?  Think it out for yourself, see what you think is most valid.  Look up research about evolution if you want, and ask your religious leader questions.  All I can tell you is, you are going to get conflicting information from all those different sources out there.  You just have to process all of it and figure out wich stuff makes the most sense to you.\n\nGood luck!
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There is certainly some truth to what you say.  However, it is not the only reason.  If it were, there would be no converts to or from any religion.  The Bible defines faith as "being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see."  By this definition, believing evolution or the Big Bang IS faith.  In fact, even sitting down in a chair without first testing to see if it can support your weight is faith.  There are two types of faith, however, blind faith, and faith based on reason.  I believe most people have blind faith, no matter what they believe in.  Believing in something despite evidence to the contrary is blind faith to the extreme.  Many people have that, too.  I believe a faith based on reason is what we should demand of ourselves and each other.  That is why I put my faith on the line.  I have told many others, "If you can convince me that what you believe is more logical than what I believe, I will change my beliefs."  It doesn't matter how small or large the belief.  I have changed many times because of this.  My belief that Jesus raised from the grave, however, has always proved to be more logical than any other argument.  I believe it always will be.  That's faith.
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Be sure you understand the meaning of the term Atheist.  Atheists generally denouonce the existance of any type of superior diety.  I myself am Agnostic, I am comfortable with the idea that I'm not sure what happened, what will happen, why things are.  I tend to follow the current scientific theories (note the term theory).  Science is continually improving upon itself, realizing that very few things can be proven as fact.  Science often corrects previous assumptions of many things, a few hundred years ago, the world was flat, and the Earth was the center of the universe...tell someone that now and youll get looked at like you didnt make it through Kindergarten.  My opinion on the beginning of time, the "first" human and what not tends to follow the theroy of evolution as it can be demonstrated in everday life, however through out my travels toplaces that i would rather not have gone, I have fouond little evidence for an all powerful and caring god as I watched my friend burn alive while his wife, daughter, and future son were waiting his return home in less than one month.  Sorry.....those are some of my thoughts, I am not a violent man, and I live a very moral life, however, I don't believe in God....but on the same hand, I would be open to believe if I had ever seen any evidence of him/her, I firmly accept the fact that I don't know.
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I would be surprised to find an atheist who did not accept evolution. So as an atheist yes I do accept evolution. I also deny  the existence or supernatural forces.
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Yup, I believe in God and The Bible, His letter to mankind.  And no, I do not believe in the Theory of Evolution.\n\nIf one believes the Bible is God's Word, then one can't believe in evolution.  Since the Bible IS the Word of God, then the entire book has to be perfect -- totally inerrant.  This means that if one believes anything in the Bible, one must believe every single word.  It's all or nothing; God either said it or He didn't say it.  He is either lying or He is telling the truth.  He is incapable of lying or of being inaccurate in anything He says so every bit of it has to be true.\n\nEven though there are things we may not understand, we believe them anyway, because God is totally trustworthy.  There are many things few of us understand, but we believe in them anyway, such as the deeper things of science and mathematics.  I don't understand much about how a computer works and the many advancements in information technology, but I sure believe in them.\n\nIf there's anyone we can rely on it is God.  He doesn't make mistakes.  He is perfect.
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Either you believe Gods Word or you dont.  There is no inbetween like believing God allowed evolution.  God said He created everything in six days, do you take it by faith or do you need proof.  Their's the 2 choices.  Its not that difficult.