How many of you believe in Evolution? Do religious people believe in dinosaurs and cavemen?
827868
well im christian and i believe in the beginning there was adam and eve not caveman and cavewoman named agga and wagga. and evolution is not true. and i think religious ppl shouldnt believe in it.
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I happen to agree that evolution may not be the way god chose to create the world. There must be an intelligent designer - the more I learn science the more I see that must be true. I've watched dr dinos vids and as a scientist I see a lot of cool stuff, but also a bunch of flaws - I loved his work on dinosaurs though.\nThe only scientific evidence for evolution that really leaves me hanging is radioisotope degradation (I can see around C14, but what about the others)\nAnyone want to explain a way around that...I'd be interested!
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Oh good grief.\n\nHow can someone not believe in evolution?  The evidence is freakin' everywhere.\n\nFirst off: evolution is not incompatible with creation theory.  You just have to widen your theological perspectives and stop being a tool.\n\nSecond, there is a host of evidence for evolution.  Just look at the biological tree.  Life has trended from simple life to complex.  There are also fossil records that demostrate quite concretely (excuse the pun) that creatures have changed over the centuries.\n\nIf you write such glaring evidence off as some sort of "demonic trickery" then I truly have to wonder about your gullibility.  I mean, some people seriously need to think about the full rammifications of their religious beliefs.
555087
No, there are no good reasons to believe in evolution.  As a Christian you should only believe in the Bible (God's words).  The Bible speaks nothing about evolution.
408718
Why not both? They are not mutually exclusive. By making me choose between the two you are creating a false paradox. I could believe in God and Evolution or none of the above.\n\nAlso asking people if they believe in Evolution is like asking if they believe in gravity. It's a scientific fact, things evolve. However, the idea that life arose through evolution is an accepted theory but not totally a fact. So if you make me choose between the two I have to pick evolution because it's definately true.
912567
You haven't defined your terms - what is Darwinism? what is this religion controversy? why didn't you say scientific controversy?\n\nThere certainly is a controversy among fundamentalist Christians yet there is none among biologists – doesn’t this seem curious? Most creationists believe the literal account found in Genesis and scorn science in general. Most biologists believe the modern synthesis of evolution and genetics, and understand it has nothing to do with religion.\n\nIf you want to know more about evolution and understand why most educated people consider that it’s proven beyond doubt, check out these websites:\n\nhttp://www.talkorigins.org/\nhttp://evolution.berkeley.edu/\nhttp://lifesciences.asu.edu/evolution/\nhttp://mcb.harvard.edu/BioLinks/Evolution.html\nhttp://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/evolution98/\nhttp://explore-evolution.unl.edu/
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"Dr" Hovind is a complete charlatan, and the arguments as far as Earth's rotation and the distance to the moon are fradulent.\n\nIn any case, I know a number of people, including one who is a priest, who believe in both God and evolution.  In this viewpoint, God is more of a supreme architect who created the basic structure of the universe, and evolution is one of the ways in which this universe operates, giving rise to life in all its complexity.  It's a reasonable viewpoint, given that you can neither prove nor disprove God.  Personally, I don't find God necessary, so I don't include such a being in my view of reality.  Can I prove this?  No, not really.  But a believer in God can't prove to me that this being exists, either.  As far as whether you're a creationist of an evolutionist, I'd say you're an evolutionist since you believe that life diversified through evolution.  Darwin was also a believer in God, although not a personal God you could communicate with.  His viewpoint was much more like the school of theological thought that was very popular at the time called Deism, which proposes a God that exists as a permeating force, but which does not perform miracles, or give prophecy to individual humans.  In other words they view God as more of a force of nature than an anthropomorphic God.   So, if the originator of the theory of evolution could believe in God, and felt that he was learning about the works of this God by understanding nature, then I'd say someone who believes in God and considers the process of evolution to be one of the achievements of that God is an evolutionist.  \n\nThe idea that a belief in God and acceptance of evolution as a scientific throught are impossible to hold at the same time is a straw man set up by religious con men who are mostly interested in controlling people's thought for the purpose of building up their own political power.  By creating a false dichotomy, they can get people to isolate themselves from other schools of thought, which makes them easier to control.
536832
Yes. Many people hold those sorts of beliefs. God created the universe, and Evolution is part of His plan. No biggie.
1127502
I believe in myself.  As for evolution, in a nutshell there are still monkeys because the group of monkeys we came from were forced to evolve due to a new enviroment and monkeys didn't have to evolve because their enviroment has pretty much been the same.  Understand though that this didn't happen in a day or seven but over a few million years, its a fact sorry but that doesn't mean that there isn't a god.
971457
Evolution is not a religion. Answer this, Is science a religion?\nAre you mocking or idolizing Christ (lamb) with your avatar?You do know Christians call Jesus a lamb, right?
421998
The adherents of Darwin's principle of evolution say Yes, those that believe in creation by God say No, but common sense teaches that we are human being and we never change from anything or to anything. Man is unique in nature and has always remain man since existence. Also since we have not been able to identify any being that has changed to another since men have been keeping records (apart from process of metamorphosis)my conclusion is "Man did not descend from apes"
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Sure. \nLike Southpark said, evolution answers the question how, and religion answers the question why.
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depending on who you ask....\n\ni'm a christian, who's looked into and studied the past and how to explain the existence of dinosaurs and how it could correlate with the bible.\n\ni believe the earth was made in 6 days and adam and eve and the "dinosaurs" were made.  and like someone else said, basically back then the earth was like a huge greenhouse... everything was much larger than they are nowadays.  and also like someone else said, there has been proof found that humans coexisted with dinosaurs (that link above).  and there is also proof that carbon-14 dating can be highly inaccurate (they tested a bone and the skin attached to it... they came up with millions of years difference between the skin and bone of the same animal!!!).  so just because all these scientists say this stuff doesn't mean that the bible can be easily discounted...\n\nscience is what you make it and can be easily skewed... i know this, i'm a science major!!!!  also from all my science classes... i really really don't find the whole evolution idea plausible.... to me, personally, having a belief in a superior being creating everything is more likely than everything evolving from an amoeba.  but hey, that idea runs better with other people and they have no room for believing in a being and hey, that's their choice.\n\nso i personally think that when the floods came (also when that greenhouse effect i mentioned earlier ended) that maybe the dinosaurs habitats were too effected that they died out and became extinct?\n\ni do agree with animals and such becoming better adapted over time.  i mean, we have too... if the environment changes, we need to keep up, otherwise we'll go the way of the dinosaurs.\n\nand for reference, the bible puts the earth at around 12,000 years old.
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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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Something like the big bang must have tooken millions even billions of years- and who's to say we haven't been around that long? Evolution obviously takes a very long time so there is a very big line between Science and Religion. Some people beleive God created the Earth and the univese and have Faith in something that is mostly one-sides- Some people beleive that science and evolution and astronomical theories created the Universe. and we can't really decide on which one is true. The Science side has more evidence to back it up while the Religion side, well i don't know if they even have evidence therefore i'll leave that out. But yes..it's a diverse question. People must take their sides but must still leave other opinions open\n\nIf you start to just beleive in one thing and ignore all the others- your so determined to beleive into something you would deny everything else- To be honest, i beleive in the scientific explanation of how life came to be. And i beleive the Bible isn't the life of Jesus but more a guide on how to live life as a good moral human being. Well thats my opinion.
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your question sounds less like a question and more like a rant against the people you're asking to answer it. I suppose it is crazy to think that God created dinosaurs as well as the rest of the world.  I mean, if I'm brave enough to believe God made an entire universe out of nothing, why are dinosaurs so hard to add to the equation?  \nand there are Christians who believe in the day age theory, or theistic evolution. Ancient Hebrew, which the creation story was written in, is very poetic, and can be difficult to translate exactly/literally. So when they refer to days, some scholars say a day could refer to any period of time, such as an age, one thousand years, etc.  \nand Christians aren't the only ones capable of being narrowminded. you don't sound like you accept other peoples' right to believe something different than you and still be intelligent humans. that's called hypocrisy.  I'm christian, and I respect your ability to believe something different, even if I think you're wrong. and I don't immediate assume you're stupid for doing so.  so I guess you're in the same club as the ones you criticize.
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I love to study evolution and I believe entirely in it, even though I am completing my first year of Seminary.  You can have faith in both, after all something had to start it all, and the evolution of man is fascinating, to think we evolved to be at the top and yet we have no special defenses, no sharp teeth, nor claws, we're one of the slowest mammals, and, our children take longer to mature than any other animal on the planet, something to think about, I also believe in life out there, not UFOs, but life on a planet.  Bible Thumpers, are people who take the Bible so seriously that it makes them sin