I mean, The whole universe is a part of God, so why cant evolution be?  I would think that God would want us to grow and change and improve.  Infact, one might say that God evolved between the New and Old Testament.  Is it possible that God changes as we do?
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Sure, that's what God is. Continual evolution. Just look at the past few hundred years. Have not humans evolved with our discoveries and ways of thinking? I dont think you could just say that is made from order and chaos. It is creative. Life is creative and evolving, therefore God made evolution so humanity can continually change and improve itself.
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I can understand where your coming from but before you make any conclusions on evolution take a look at this website.  It has all you need to know about evolution vs. creationism.  http://www.talkorigins.org/.  The reason so many people believe in evolution is that every field of natural science supports it independently from geology, biology, genetics etc. and it makes a lot of sense once you sit down and really analyze the fact.  Unfortunately there is much misinformation out there so I urge you to read the information on the website and then make up you mind on evolution.  Personally I feel that evolution and religion can co-exist.  I feel that its a shame religious leaders exploit controversial topics in order to rally their base.  The true teachings of religion are of acceptance and forgiveness and any dogmatic interpretations of the bible (or any religious text) only serve to weaken message.
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I agree with you.  When you REALLY look at the horrors of tsunamis, earthquakes, hurricanes, epidemics, etc... I don't see how to reconcile it with a "loving" god. As for evolution, 300 years ago, people atributed lightning, earthquakes, infection, miscarriages, adn other stuff to god's will.  Now we know there are physical processes going on that can basically explain these things.  So why hold out for creation of life? We'll probably have even better answers in 50 years and then what?  Wel... god must be still be in the big bang! yeah that's it!  Silly.\n\nAnd why did humans only live on average into their 30's for the past 2,000 years? Now we live to mid-70's (in US).  Because of god?  Or science?  God was pretty important for westerners, the chuch ran just about everything.  But health didn't improve until medicine did.\n\n100 years ago, literally 50% of children died within 1 year.  This is god's perfect creation?  Humans are god's perfect design?  That's funny.
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Science wouldn't exist if God had'nt created the universe. In other wors, GOD CREATED SCIENCE. If you look at where the earth is placed in the universe, you will see that we are placed in the best place for observing the universe. God did mean for us to be scientific, and the more we study Science, the more glory we should bring to God, because he is the creator of all. God did not use evolution. If There is an all-powerful God, why would he use such an inefficeint way to create? With the survival of the fittest and all the killing, wouldn't it just be so much easier to speak the world into existence?
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I don't say that evolution does not exist, I say that however life came to be, God put it there. In other words, if there is evolution, God started it. Maybe there was a Big Bang, but God started it. That's all.
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Most religions center around a god or numerous gods, except for atheism, which is not really a religion. It is just a lack thereof. Therefore your question about evolution being a religion - no, not really. Evolution is more like a theory. People either accept it, or don't. But it's not their way of life. I hope you see what I mean.\n\nTo clarify - most religions are made up of religious texts/chants/hymns. Religion is a very strong belief in something that guides peoples lives to do righteous things.
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It's interesting because I use the same thought process as you to arrive at a totally different conclusion.  For me it is like, God doesn't fit into my "nice neat little box" so he can't exist.  That might sound close-minded so I'll elaborate.  In my eyes, science is beginning to understand more and more of the world and our origins.  Now when I look at the overwhelming evidence of evolution and even just the happenings around me, I form a general understanding of the world that I am comfortable with.  Now when something enters my world view (God) I have to examine the evidence and tinker with the idea to see if it fits.  The problem with God is, I've seen no evidence and he just plain does not fit.  With science, no matter what your mindset, the evidence is right there for you to see regardless of your bias or what conclusions you draw from it.  Basically, if I saw real evidence of God, I could attempt to rearrange the rules and see if he fits, but I don't believe I should have to break the rules to even see evidence of him.  That makes it sound like the first step to becoming a Christian is to delude yourself.
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I don't think you will get a satisfying answer becausae you worded your question in a rather confusing fashion.\n\nIf you don't want to discuss natural selection, don't use the word evolution at all.  Ask about Big Bang Cosmologies instead.
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God and evolution are not an antithesis.  God spoke life into existence but he also placed within each creature the ability to adapt and evolve.  \n\nI do not believe there is life out there. However, even if there were it wouldn't change my belief in Christ.  I'd say what a wonderful Creator we have and move on.
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because most people see it as either an attack on god or as an attack on science. there are however a few of us who believe that the theory of god and the theory of evolution can coexist. i try to keep an open mind about things that are not yet proven or unproven to be true.
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I am not sure how it all came to be as it is.  I wonder sometimes if perhaps we created ourselves.  I mean, through reincarnation, we have the opportunity to become better and better,and perhaps we have more will and power than people realize to become more advanced.  I know, that sounds hair-brained, but it is just a wild idea I had.\n\nI think it is possible that God guides the evolution process, causing the mutations that will become beneficial, or survival advantages.\n\nI think there is a whole lot more to evolution than we realize.  I think there is something marvelous about it and random mutations do not fully explain it to me.  I think there must be some mechanism which actually somehow accelerates mutations when the need for a change is present.  Whether that mechanism was put there by God or not, who could really say?\n\nAs the Rig Veda says, "who really knows, who can say, from whence it came?  Maybe God knows, and maybe even he does not."
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The more I learn about evolution, the more it doesn't make sense. I am a very new Christian. If you told me a year ago that creation makes more sense than evolution, I would tell you that you were crazy. No transition fossils for any animals "evolving" into another animal have ever been found. I don't deny there is a lot of changes occurring in living things over the generations–it's called variation (also called micro-evolution). For example, there are chihuahuas and there are St. Bernards.  They all have a common ancestor–-and surprise–-it's a dog.  This is what Darwin observed.  The idea of survival of the fittest does not come to a logical conclusion when the animal turns into a different animal.  \n\nThe span of time since the earth “began” keeps getting longer and longer by evolutionists' measure.  Fifty years ago, it was in the millions of years.  Now it's billions.  This keeps growing to make it fit evolution.  Since no living person has ever seen evolution take place, and evolution has never left a record to prove it exists, it needs to have happened so SLOWLY that many generations of people (since recorded history began thousands of years ago) have never witnessed it.  The more evolutionists learn, the more they have to change their estimates... because evolution is not possible with their older estimates.  \n\nThe same amount of faith is needed to believe in evolution as creation.  However, evolutionist have an advantage because it is REQUIRED to be taught in school.  The alternative theory is not even allowed to be mentioned in school.  Schools are even getting in trouble these days by pointing out that evolution is a theory and not fact.  People call evolution science, but science needs to be able to be observed and/or replicated.  Evolution can do neither of these things.  What other scientific experiment do you know that has no proof, no conclusive evidence, so many missing pieces, consistently proving itself wrong, but instead of ruling that it must be false, they change the input to make it work. If scientist did this with any other experiment, they would be laughed out of their jobs. There have been many evolution hoaxes created throughout the years so that there could be some “proof” of evolution.  Some of these were found out to be hoaxes decades ago, but are still found in science textbooks today.\n\nYes, creation has to be taken on faith because you can't prove it other than what it says in the Bible.  But evolution also has to be taken on faith because you can't prove it other than what it says in a textbook. Your choice (that is what free will is about), but I would just recommend that everyone FULLY examines both sides before concluding one is right.
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Evolution is almost a proven fact.  In fact it's one of the basic concept of biological science. In fact humans have been tinkering with evolution for thousands of years.  Why do you think we have so many breeds of dogs? If you take selective breeding far enough you could "create" a totally new species. Germs and viruses are constantly evolving. Do you think the AIDS virus was spontaneously created by God?? It evolved from closely related chimpanzee virus that we can no longer be infected with. But the AIDS virus evolved from this virus that we can no longer be infected with. \n\nEvolution is obvious when you look at rapidly reproducing living things such as germs and viruses.  It is not as obvious for a longer living things as process is so slow that it takes millions of years. But fossil evidence is overwhelming that evolution is how we came to be human beings. \n\nWe did not evolve from apes!  Apes are our distant cousins that branched off millions of years ago. We are related to chimps and gorillas, but think of it as very very distant cousins. I don't know the exact percentage, but humans and chimps share over 99% of the genes. It's that one percent that makes us human.  \n\nI don't belive in god, but existance in a supernatural beings does not mean evolution is wrong. I don't think belief in god and evolution has to be mutually exclusive. If god created life, then he/she/it also must have created evolution to go with it.
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I believe that the world was created by God.\nNot by germs or mold that transformed into fish and turned into apes that turned into humans. Or whatever that would be.\n\nBut, in a way, there's evolution in every-day life. Such as caterpillers turning into butterflies, tadpoles turning into frogs.\nBut that's not really evolution, it's called life.
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Ok Buckar you have a point here, now years ago when Lucy evolved and passed our DNA on down the line we soon began to walk different and get taller. See we had short legs to be able to survive on the terain and the legs were the power to run from the animals that could eat us. Oh sorry we are on Adam and Eve aren't we. After reading all these great answers I noticed one thing. Most have different answers. Now I find that there are 2 Creators, God and Lord God who created God. Jesus did have kids and hung with Mary so he could use her money to support him and he supposedly had kids too. He may have had illigedimate ones too cause they didn't have good birth control back then.As for the nipples on man they may be for the gay men. I mean its like you said God doesn't make misakes and I know a lot of gay people that are Religious and good.As for the person that stated woman was created as a helper to man I think he should have said slave cause a lot of women are supporting lazy men today.I don't see why people say the bible is fact but when I say my horoscope is true all the time they say oh that is man written and the chance of it being true is only cause some people may believe it and might have a day where it might go that way. Make sense eh ! I think we evolved from like viruses and stuff like insects did. If animals were created first and then man in Gods image only by feelings and not physical then animals are too. I say my animals love me and never sin against me where as man does, did and will continue to. Most preachers that are child molesters think it is not a sin because it is not with a woman and a man is ok cause they have written this down through time. The Monks had homosexuallity all the time and hid it, yet burned people at the stake cause they thought they were witches. This was to cover up their fears that they may be found guilty of being gay.Noah, This is utter nonsense, No way can you get 2 of all creatures on Earth into a boat for 40 days and not have them eat each other.Too many species to find to fit the boat.And how did it flood the whole world when they didn't have the weather map to show that all was flooded.I am sure that the 2 so called Gods did not send hundreds of animals from thousands of miles all over the world to get to a boat in one spot.I wonder why Jesus was in one spot on this vast Earth and at the time where there was no travel to spread the word of 2 Gods faster. If Noah had God mentally control the animals to board the boat and control the situation then why didn't he crack the whip on those darn Unicorns ! And if man is all so mighty over animals then someone was reincarnated into my parakeet cause he can say over 120 different phrases and I can't fly or immitate his language. Sorry so long as I just stopped here cause it was an interesting question .
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Well true scientist do not say this!  If evolution was true why is sludge still not evolving into humans?? shouldn'g there be all forms from sludge to crawlers and whatever?? Why haven't we pysically evolved any more in thousands of years?? We have certainly advanced in mechanization etc.\nThe Bible, which I believe is The Word of God tells us in the first book of the Bible, Genesis--In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. It goes on to tell us how God created this world with land and water etc. and then created man and the every living creature.  Still, Adam, the first man was lonely so God created a woman--a helpmeet for the man Adam and she was called Eve. As a child, before I knew almost anything about Creation I used to wonder why is a cat called a cat?? why is a dog called a dog and not called a cat--I found that answer in the Bible--Adam named all of the living creatures. I used to know a little song about the monkeys, but can't remember it very well other that it ends with I don't know about your ancestors, but mine didn't swing in a tree.
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God could have been the power that started the Big Bang....that put the amoeba on the earth. Evolution can go hand in hand with religious beliefs.