Creation or Evolution - Which side are you on?

[Golf4food]

Both - they are not mutually exclusive.

A God capable of creating everything in the universe would certainly be capable of giving that creation the ability to adapt to changing circumstances...

I believe there is no way everything could have just happened by accident. I also believe that God gave His creation the ability to adapt to changes of environment, etc. So I am more of an Intelligent Design person.

 

[kendodd]

I believe there is no way everything could have just happened by accident.

So, I have to ask again, how did God happen? Was there an even greater creator than God?

 

[wvjules]

The world wasn't created in 7 days? Then why do I rest on Sundays?????

ETA: This is post 5555. Yay me!

 

[SandrainNC]

Creation.

But I also believe that things have evolved since the creation.

Sandra

 

[Golf4food]

So, I have to ask again, how did God happen? Was there an even greater creator than God?

It's called faith, Kendodd. Faith is the belief in things not seen, the hope in things yet to happen. You evidently have faith in absolute evolution and pure chance, even though there are plenty of question marks surrounding that line of thinking (just as many as for creation if you ask many people). You believe without having 100% proof about all of the questions. Great! Some of us choose to believe in God and other religious principles without having 100% proof about all of those questions as well. It doesn't make one side right or wrong because - as has been mentioned - neither side has all the answers!

The Bible's answer to your question comes from God's introduction to Moses, where the translation more or less is, "Before anything was, I AM." God transcends time. I don't know how or why. I don't need to know how or why. I believe it will be explained to me in Heaven or I will automatically understand or it just plain won't matter. Whatever. Either way I choose to believe. You have the God given / chaos given right to not believe if that is your choice.

 

[KelNottAt]

I believe God created evolution.

 

[Scornelius]

You can't believe that, but you can believe we were created by God, from what, nothing?

I believe a supreme being has mastered nanotechnology.

 

[MareQ]

I believe in evolution, but also think that evolution started somewhere. I do not think any God created us, though. To me, that's just an explanation for what we don't know and don't really understand.

Ditto.

 

[becka]

Pardon the analogy but I was a math major and this is kind of the way I think of God. God to me is a bit like parallel lines. We can't prove parallel lines don't cross. We just believe they don't and even though it does not make sense in our physical world for them to cross (because then triangles have more or less than 180 degrees, squares cannot exist, etc.) that does not mean they don't in some plane. I can't prove that God exists or does not exist. I choose to believe he does even if everything does not make perfect sense to me in this physical world.

 

[flipflop]

I believe God created evolution.

Me too.

 

[Honu]

Evolution. Believing we are created by God/supreme beings just because we (man/science) haven't yet deciphered how it started, doesn't make sense to me.

 

[disneydude91]

I agree that it is both. My opinion is that god created the world and then the world evolved into what we now live in.

 

[kendodd]

It's called faith, Kendodd. Faith is the belief in things not seen, the hope in things yet to happen. You evidently have faith in absolute evolution and pure chance, even though there are plenty of question marks surrounding that line of thinking (just as many as for creation if you ask many people). You believe without having 100% proof about all of the questions. Great! Some of us choose to believe in God and other religious principles without having 100% proof about all of those questions as well. It doesn't make one side right or wrong because - as has been mentioned - neither side has all the answers!

The Bible's answer to your question comes from God's introduction to Moses, where the translation more or less is, "Before anything was, I AM." God transcends time. I don't know how or why. I don't need to know how or why. I believe it will be explained to me in Heaven or I will automatically understand or it just plain won't matter. Whatever. Either way I choose to believe. You have the God given / chaos given right to not believe if that is your choice.

You said before that you didn't believe everything could have happened by accident, but you can believe that nothing created God, so he/she must have happened by accident at some stage. You are able to somehow make this massive leap of "faith" but find it impossible to accept that we may come from the primordial soup.

 

[DawnCt1]

I believe in both

Exactly, Intelligent design.

 

[kendodd]

Exactly, Intelligent design.

So who intelligently designed God? If you can't answer that, intelligent design is just a self defeating argument.

 

[Barbossa]

I think creation and evolution are one and the same. I do not believe in a literal interpretation of the Bible.

 

[Chloe'sMom]

How can it be both, there's no evolution in the Bible? Man was created as is surely.

Seriously - show me how I'm made of clay and a rib and I'll believe exculsively in creatism.

I Thank God my parents brought me up Catholic somedays.

~Amanda

 

[Chloe'sMom]

I am another person who couldn't vote because I believe in both.

And Kendra, calm down.

Suddenly things make sense.
~Amanda

 

[zagafi]

I believe in both, I guess. I do believe in a Creator, and definitely believe we have evolved as a species, but don't necessarily think we descended from apes.

 

[goofygirl]

Church-going evolutionist here!