For those who believe in God, do you believe in Evolution?
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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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It is truly absurd. \n\nI don't know if I can completely, 100% believe in creation, but evolution is even more impossible to believe. Even true science doesn't stand behind it. \n\nCheck out: 2nd law of thermodynamics, and Chaos theory.
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I also understand evolution to be true.\nWe "paint" God as a man becaue we have no other understanding. We are only human after all.
1016992
Well, I think so.  I'm a biologist who accepts the fact that evolution occurred, but I don't use that to try to prove that God doesn't exist.  I'm also a born-again Christian who doesn't doubt a single word in the Bible.  Evolution is nothing.  I frankly don't see what the big deal about it is.  The real enemy is Materialism- those pseudoscientists who think the physical universe is all that exists.  That's not the same thing as evolultion.  One can still believe in God and simply think evolution was a tool He used at times.  But you can't be a Materialist and still believe in God at all.  People should understand that they're disputing about a worldview, not about facts.
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medical researchers, yes.  probably quite a few.  there are also quite a few evolutionary biologists, and paleontologists who hold personal beliefs that God created the universe and life.\n\nhowever, there are very few (if any) evolutionary biologists or paleontologists who believe that a literal version of creation as laid in out the bible took place (i.e. in six days, man created from dust, woman from man's rib etc. etc.)\n\nthat literal interpretation just doesn't fit with the physical evidence that has been uncovered (and is even inconsistent with itself).\n\nas far as medical researchers, there are probably some who do believe in a literal biblical story of creation, but their professional opinion on the matter is about as relevant as an automotive mechanics.  they are certainly skilled workers in their own field, but evolution is not where their expertise lies.
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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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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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Yes.But I ALSO believe in science.Otherwise we wouldn't be on computers right now since science developed them and we wouldn't be flying since science showed us how to fly and we wouldn't be able to study fossils since science tells us a lot about them.But I do believe God created the whole thing.\n\nI think of God as the engineer and scientists as the under-standers of how the engine works.
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If you believe that God is the creator of the universe, then all consequences of that creation--including evolution by natural selection--are the result of God's divine work.  That doesn't even need to mean God guided the process of evolution, but rather that God's divinity is written into the fabric of the universe itself.  After all, isn't God omnipresent?\n\nCreation is one thing, but creationism--generally thought to mean a literal interpretation of Genesis--is another altogether.  I believe in God and Christ, but I cannot believe that the Genesis story is literally true.  The distance to stars is so great that if the universe were in fact a few thousand years old, then there would be no way for us to see those stars yet, unless God deliberately tried to deceive us.  The God I believe in is not a deceiver, for it is Satan who is the father of lies.  Many of the works of nature--fossils, marsupial distribution, geologic records, etc--suggest that Genesis cannot be meant to be taken as a literal truth.\n\nIf God made me in His own image, I believe this is not to say he is a 6'1" blue-eyed blond-haired white male.  I think that is to say that our intelligence, creativity, conscience, and will are in the image of God.  My curiosity is part of that, and my curiosity leads me to discover the broad support of evolution.  Hence, I believe in evolution, and I believe that God wants me to understand the working of his universe.\n\nSpirituality is spiritual, and the material world is the material world.  The Bible suggests that one should not obsess too much on "wordly matters;" how, then, does it make sense to think that the Bible should be devoted to such worldly matters as the order of the apperance of species, or the age of rocks on the ground?  Such matters are trifling.  To focus on these is to miss the forest for the trees.  The allegory of Genesis remains important in creating an understanding of you and you your relation to the world God has given us.  Literal tales of creation could offer nothing so valuable as the lessons in the Bible.
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Well, I believe in the theory of evolution, not exactly Darwin's original model, since that's pretty old and has been revised (DNA, genetics, fossils, etc).\n\nAs to why some folks choose not to believe, there are several reasons I can think of :\n\n1) The idea that man evolved from a non-human creature is near unthinkable. Many people find it ludicrous that we are closely related to some big hairy beast that sits and scratches its butt at the zoo.\n\n2) We like to be in the "center", and evolution tells us that we aren't 'special', whereas religion makes humans THE important species. Kinda like why people didn't believe Galileo at first.\n\n3) Religion. If you grow up learning one thing, it's pretty hard to convince yourself otherwise.\n\n4) If evolution is indeed true, then the BIble can't be taken literally. Adam and Eve is one of the most significant stories in the Bible (as well as the Quran), if that's just a parable, what else is?\n\nProbably some other reasons as well, I can't think of any more right now. Good luck on your research, btw :)
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No you are not.  There are several theories to evolution.  Some are compatible with Christianity, some are not.  Belief in anyone of them, even if a wrong one, is not serious enough to get you damned (unless it causes you to act in certain ways that are contrary to the Christian life.)  Remember belief is only part of salvation, you have to do something with your belief.\n\nAs a note:  If you read Genesis Ch 1 in Hebrew you will notice that the verb that is used for "God created..." switches back and forth from having God as its exclusive object to being a more open ended.  The verb that means "God personally did the creating" is applied at the beginning of creation and at the creation of man.  The other verbs are along the lines of "called forth from" an indication that while God willed certain creation to be so, it was the process of creation (ie evolution) that actually formed that which was created.\n\nAlso you should know that certain theories of evolution have a long and strong history within Christianity.  Look up the Monk Gregory Mendel and his studies on genetics.  Also you should be aware that Catholics had an idea of evolution millennia before Darwin.\n\nLet me quote at length from FUNDAMENTALS OF CATHOLIC DOGMA\n\n1.  The materialist doctrine of evolution...is contrary to Revelation.\n\n2.  The doctrine of evolution based on the theistic conception of the world, which traces matter and life to God's causality and assumes that organic being, developed from originally created seed-powers (St. Augustine) or from stem forms (doctrine of descent), according to God's plan, is compatible with the doctrine of Revelation.  However, as regards to MAN, a special creation by God is demanded, which must extend at least to the spiritual soul.  Individual Fathers, especially St. Augustine, accepted a certain development of living creatures.  Proceeding from the assumption that God creates everything at one time (cf. Ecclus. 18.1), they taught that God brought a certain part of His creation into existence in a finished state, while He created others in the form of primitive seeds (rationes, seminales, or causales) from which they were gradually to develop.  Those Fathers and Schoolmen who accepted a development, conceived a development of the individual species of living things each from a particular primitive form created by God;  but modern theories of evolution (descendent theory) conceives that development as from one species to another.  According as these give priority to evolution from a plurality of original forms or from one single stem-form (primitive form) one speaks of a many-stemmed (polyphyletic) or single-stemmed (monophyletic) development.  From the stand point of the doctrine of evolution, either form is possible.
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I do believe in evolution because that just means cahanges over a period of time but,i don't believe in darwins theory of evolution or the big bang.people who are "scared" of believing in creation are looking for excuses.i don't know about sedementary rock except what my tutor  and teacher tells me.
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Well, I'm a creationist, I believe God created everything in the universe. Darwinism is plain stupid and wrong. Can all the organization and beauty in the universe come out 'by chance'?? This is ridiculous, an intelligent power made it, and that power is GOD.
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I TOTALLy agree with you in that the two concepts are mutually exclusive.  A belief in God (as depicted in the Bible) has ABSOLUTELY NO ROOM for macroevolution.  Similarly, a belief in macroevolution has NO PLACE for God.  \n\nSome individuals try to merge the two, saying that God used macroevolution as THE CREATION MACHINERY. That's like Jews or Muslims saying Jesus was a good man, a great teacher but not the Messiah. THERE'S NO MIDDLE GROUND.  GOD OR EVOLUTION? MESSIAH OR MADMAN?  The choice is yours.\n\nIncidentally, macroevolution has never been proven, either.  BOTH must be accepted on FAITH!!!!
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Yes i believe in God. I believe in God because there is so much proof. If you read the book "A Case for Christ" then you would see all the proof you need. Any other religious person here would agree that if you studied your Bible then you would definitely believe what you read. I have studied the Bible and I believe what I read.
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yes of course i believe in God... he is the almighty creator...\npeace out:)
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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.