Evolution vs. Creation
@newshoesbraggar (14)
United States
February 26, 2009 2:19am CST
This is like the ultimate debate. I am definitely more on the evolution side. If you look at all of the scientific evidence and everything in the universe it just makes sense. But when you look at the creation side people just say "thats how God made it" even though there is nothing to back it up. People beleive every story they read in the bible, but I think the bible is book of stories with lessons on morals and being a good person. Also to believe the bible, you would have to believe that dinosaurs lived 4000 years ago with humans and that we didnt evolve from apes. The last thing I just mentioned was a topic in the news the past couple weeks when a representative of the Vatican admitted that Darwin was on the right track when he said humans evolved from apes. I didnt hear everything that person said, but to even say that little statement seems to go against everything the Vatican stands for. Did anyone else hear of this news?
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@urbandekay (18278)
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26 Feb 09
I don't see it as a debate at all, I accept evolution and see it just as the mechanism by which God created.
all the best urban
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@newshoesbraggar (14)
• United States
26 Feb 09
doesnt that go against the bible? or is the bible supposed to say God created monkey which turned into man?
@urbandekay (18278)
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26 Feb 09
No, I don't think it is against the bible. Genesis contains deep truths about man's nature not about his genealogy.
Also, evolution does not say we evolved from monkeys, that is a common misconception propagated by the ignorant, rather it suggests we and monkeys evolved from common ancestors.
all the best urban
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@shyamlal (3533)
• India
27 Feb 09
The fact is bible or any other religious books is a creation by man and life evolved from some sources which is quite unexplainable.. Some say its god ..some say its something else.. The fact being..those things are not going to affect your life.. Let that source remain an unexplainable thing.. Then you can see the religions and various gods disappearing from the Equation... And I believe thats the way it should be..
• United States
27 Feb 09
Those who say the creative force or God is something else...don't know, they haven't met God. Those who say they believe are also in the same boat...they too don't know. Belief is NOT knowing. Yet there are those who have met God and know God. Those who would manipulate others, form religions and require obedience or worship are not in that category as they would want you to believe...still I say there are those who have had a close encounter with God that they are consciously aware of.
As others have stated both evolution and creation are true. God created it all in such a way that it evolves. Our human bodies grew and evolved on this planet for a million years or more as animal like beings. That is they have no conscious awareness of who they were, no real creativity.
Then when the homosapien body evolved to the point it was ready to serve God's plans the other similar but different species of animals in human forms were killed off and God placed him/herself into these homosapien bodies as a conscious and creative being.
@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
26 Feb 09
The official position of the Roman Catholic church has changed (without being actually inconsistent) since the 1950s. Currently, the Church acknowledges that evolution theory and faith need not be inconsistent. They still require that one accept that humans are regarded as a "special creation", and that the existence of God is required to explain the spiritual component of human origins.
My own belief (I am not a Catholic) is that 'creation' did not happen just once but that it is an ongoing and continuous process and intimately connected with both our spiritual and material being. That implies that what we call God is actively involved in evolution. It does NOT imply that the Universe was created 'imperfectly' and is progressing towards 'perfection' any more than one can say that the first chord of a symphony is 'imperfect'. Incompleteness does NOT imply imperfection!
