Can You Believe in God and Evolution?

TIME ^ | Sunday, Aug. 07, 2005 | DAVID VAN BIEMA

[PatrickHenry]

I guess this is the second section of Darwin Central's Sunday Edition:

EvolutionPing

A pro-evolution science list with over 300 names. See the list's explanation at my freeper homepage. Then FReepmail to be added or dropped.

[mmercier]

>> Can You Believe in God and Evolution?

Yes.

[colorcountry]

If God can create an Earth....he could certainly have created evolution.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Mike Darancette]

Can You Believe in God and Evolution?

Yes.

[proudofthesouth]

Yes I can and do.

[manwiththehands]

Darwinian evolution is in direct conflict with the Judeo/Christian account of creation as written in Genesis. If we wanted to "break God's windows" because of all the pain and suffering in the world then we are in direct conflict with the Judeo/Christian Truth of mankind's depravity and the fact that we live in a fallen world. I see no conflict between creation and natural SELECTION, but I do see no real scientific evidence to back up the evolutionary theory that all of mankind's great great great great ... "Adam and Eve" were single-celled floaties. This is the bottom line as to what Darwin wants us to believe. As a thinking Christian, I can't buy that.

[forsnax5]

I believe everything before I've had my coffee. After I've had my coffee, I believe nothing. Balance is all.

[onja]

I'm not sure. That'd mean that there had been death and suffering before Adam and Eve sinned. That seems to go against Genesis "and it was good".

[THEUPMAN]

Can You Believe in God and Evolution?



no .... not the God of the Bible .

Evolution depends on the life and death cycle of man and animles to create change.
Before Adam sinned death was not on the earth.

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Sin brings forth death.
The wages of sin is death.

[wolfcreek]

Can You Believe in God and Evolution?

Yes,except those who refuse to believe that we came from single celled organisms in the sea or worse yet, monkeys. I think God put this beautiful plan in motion and let nature do what it will.

[mmercier]

>> If God can create an Earth....he could certainly have created evolution.

As I see it God created all; the creation presupposes evolution as necessity in order to allow the creation to self-sustain.

Otherwise we could be hunting the Saber tooth tiger today, which would be a really good hunt IMO.

[The Phantom FReeper]

I can and I do. I don't see why a God who is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient could not use evolution as a vehicle for his creation. Science is also a creation of God.

[SALChamps03]

Ditto.

[spetznaz]

Easy answer: Yes. Easily.

[SLB]

I would ask you to read through "Fearfully & Wonderfully Made - A surgeon Looks at the Human & Spiritual Body" written by Dr Paul Brand and Philip Yancey. It is NOT written to discount evolution. It simply explains how the human body works. Don't respond unless you have read the book or another that is comparable.

[IronMan04]

President, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Personally, I am a young-Earth creationist. I believe the Bible is adequately clear about how God created the world, and that its most natural reading points to a six-day creation that included not just the animal and plant species but the earth itself.

Interesting, theory for the president of an institution of higher learning.

[The Phantom FReeper]

Don't respond unless you have read the book or another that is comparable.

Well, that's a rather pretentious statement. Since I'm unaware of what is so superior about you that I'm not allowed to post to you unless I have the same reading list as you, I will remember to discount anything that you post to me in the future.

[SLB]

I will remember to discount anything that you post to me in the future.

Sounds good to me!