Does God or Evolution rule your life?
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God does...I believe in the creation of all, but that doesn't mean that some species haven't evolved...There is probably room for both God and science, in the whole scenario..but not knowing enough about evolution, I couldn't say what part it has in the scheme of things..\nAltho God is my primary focus, I try to keep an open mind and learn things...
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>>>>Is God real or did evolution acualy happen?\n\nWe can’t know whether God is real or not. There is no objective evidence for the existence of God, the only evidence exists inside the minds of people. Since gods (and there are more than one) are supernatural and lack any objective evidence they fall outside the scope of science.\n\nDid evolution actually happen? Yes, that’s one thing that all the evidence agrees on.\n>>>>>I seen a story on the news and it was staying how religion in school was not taught because of the evolution therory.\n\nNo, you didn’t. You misunderstood the story on the news.  \n\nReligion is not taught in public schools because the US Constitution says that it can not be taught there. It violates the separation clause. It has nothing to do with the theory of evolution. It has everything to do with that the law quite clearly states.\n\nWhat the story would have actually said was that some attempts to teach religious beliefs as an alternative to evolution are still illegal and unconstitutional because it is still the teaching of religious beliefs.
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Nothing. It's something you can't understand unless you believe. I can't understand how people believe but I have to accept that they do. Trying to control what christians believe and endeavouring to get them to change their minds about evolution is making yourself just as bad the people who preach that you're sinner and going to burn in hell and that you were made out of clay in the form of an intangible being.\nLet is fly. Freedom of thought, freedom of expression. If you're for it youcan't control it. xxx
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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.
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Bless your heart, now we are into evolution and the missing link theory. Look at yourself in the mirror you are created in Gods image. You see our time line is not Gods time line. He rules all. So what we see in the mirror is Gods image. Shall we pray that you see much more than a caveman when you look in the mirror.
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We don't get any choice in  who we descend from. Secondly, you could argue that God planned the evolution process as many Christians argue - it is the position of the Anglican church. The Catholic position is that man may or may not have descended from the apes but God is responsible for man having a soul. Secondly, any development of evolution must ultimately be the result of God's work whether it be through evolution or other mechanisms.\n\nIndeed, Christianity or other religions with similar cosmology do not claim that man is descended from God - rather, the claim is that God made man. In Christianity, Jesus is the son of God and thus God's only descendant. \n\nI assume you are aware of the famous riposte from Thomas Huxley who invented the term agnosticism to Bishop Samuel Wilberforce.\n\n"If the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed by nature and possessed of great means of influence and yet who employs these faculties and that influence for the mere purpose of introducing ridicule into a grave scientific discussion, I unhesitatingly affirm my preference for the ape."
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It's interesting because I use the same thought process as you to arrive at a totally different conclusion.  For me it is like, God doesn't fit into my "nice neat little box" so he can't exist.  That might sound close-minded so I'll elaborate.  In my eyes, science is beginning to understand more and more of the world and our origins.  Now when I look at the overwhelming evidence of evolution and even just the happenings around me, I form a general understanding of the world that I am comfortable with.  Now when something enters my world view (God) I have to examine the evidence and tinker with the idea to see if it fits.  The problem with God is, I've seen no evidence and he just plain does not fit.  With science, no matter what your mindset, the evidence is right there for you to see regardless of your bias or what conclusions you draw from it.  Basically, if I saw real evidence of God, I could attempt to rearrange the rules and see if he fits, but I don't believe I should have to break the rules to even see evidence of him.  That makes it sound like the first step to becoming a Christian is to delude yourself.
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My dear Friend , God is A Big Fact .God is great and generous .Look how he has arranged the world for us to live in , even a   single change in his decision can make the world collapse and destroy. Every thing in the world , the birds , animals, air, water, mountains and everything is the evidence for his existence. We need to prepare our mind to explore and don't be prjudist.\n       Definitely by his grace you can experience his presence every where.\n With love shaaan
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Law of nature do exist. One may experience it any time in his/ her span of life. Issues related to God are based on firm belief, personal experience. God is a source of all form of energy.
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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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Which god or goddess or that matter...\n\nNo, natural selection is just the norm of nature...
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The reason I've usually heard is something to the effect of "Evolution is *how* God created life". Usually, though, it's not enough to say that God set evolution off and left it to its own thing, a more common belief seems to be "guided evolution", which is essentially evolution with all the hard bits done by God. In either of these interpretations, God has to nip down at some point, and zap a soul into humans.\n\nI find these ideas a little strange, myself. It's essentially saying "Yes, I can see all this scientific evidence for evolution is very compelling, but it can't be right because it needs God in it somewhere", which seems a very backwards way to conclude things.
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Sure. \nLike Southpark said, evolution answers the question how, and religion answers the question why.
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Yes. Many people hold those sorts of beliefs. God created the universe, and Evolution is part of His plan. No biggie.
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No.\n\nBut I think its fair to say that Christianity is incompatible with a believe in evolution.\n\nNot that you are an idiot just that the real Christian bigots won't accept you.\n\n10 dangers of theistic evolution\nby Werner Gitt\n\nThe atheistic formula for evolution is:\n\nEvolution = matter + evolutionary factors (chance and necessity + mutation + selection + isolation + death) + very long time periods.\n\nIn the theistic evolutionary view, God is added:\n\nTheistic evolution = matter + evolutionary factors (chance and necessity + mutation + selection + isolation + death) + very long time periods + God.\n\nIn this system God is not the omnipotent Lord of all things, whose Word has to be taken seriously by all men, but He is integrated into the evolutionary philosophy. This leads to 10 dangers for Christians.1\n\nDanger no. 1: Misrepresentation of the Nature of God\nThe Bible reveals God to us as our Father in Heaven, who is absolutely perfect (Matthew 5:48), holy (Isaiah 6:3), and omnipotent (Jeremiah 32:17). The Apostle John tells us that ‘God is love’, ‘light’, and ‘life’ (1 John 4:16; 1:5; 1:1-2). When this God creates something, His work is described as ‘very good’ (Genesis 1:31) and ‘perfect’ (Deuteronomy 32:4).\n\nTheistic evolution gives a false representation of the nature of God because death and ghastliness are ascribed to the Creator as principles of creation. (Progressive creationism, likewise, allows for millions of years of death and horror before sin.)\n\nDanger no. 2: God becomes a God of the Gaps\nThe Bible states that God is the Prime Cause of all things. ‘But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things … and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by Him’ (1 Corinthians 8:6).\n\nHowever, in theistic evolution the only workspace allotted to God is that part of nature which evolution cannot ‘explain’ with the means presently at its disposal. In this way He is reduced to being a ‘god of the gaps’ for those phenomena about which there are doubts. This leads to the view that ‘God is therefore not absolute, but He Himself has evolved—He is evolution’.2\n\nDanger no. 3: Denial of Central Biblical Teachings \nThe entire Bible bears witness that we are dealing with a source of truth authored by God (2 Timothy 3:16), with the Old Testament as the indispensable ‘ramp’ leading to the New Testament, like an access road leads to a motor freeway (John 5:39). The biblical creation account should not be regarded as a myth, a parable, or an allegory, but as a historical report, because:\n\nBiological, astronomical and anthropological facts are given in didactic [teaching] form. \nIn the Ten Commandments God bases the six working days and one day of rest on the same time-span as that described in the creation account (Exodus 20:8-11). \nIn the New Testament Jesus referred to facts of the creation (e.g. Matthew 19:4-5). \nNowhere in the Bible are there any indications that the creation account should be understood in any other way than as a factual report. \nThe doctrine of theistic evolution undermines this basic way of reading the Bible, as vouched for by Jesus, the prophets and the Apostles. Events reported in the Bible are reduced to mythical imagery, and an understanding of the message of the Bible as being true in word and meaning is lost.\n\nDanger no. 4: Loss of the Way for Finding God \nThe Bible describes man as being completely ensnared by sin after Adam’s fall (Romans 7:18-19). Only those persons who realize that they are sinful and lost will seek the Saviour who ‘came to save that which was lost’ (Luke 19:10).\n\nHowever, evolution knows no sin in the biblical sense of missing one’s purpose (in relation to God). Sin is made meaningless, and that is exactly the opposite of what the Holy Spirit does—He declares sin to be sinful. If sin is seen as a harmless evolutionary factor, then one has lost the key for finding God, w
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Yes, God has the power to predestine or not predestine our lives as He so chooses.  I agree with you in that I believe we have free choice.  I don't understand so easily how you come to know the mind of God.  Everyone is selected for His service, and everyone is blessed.  We need not seek Him, since He is already knocking on the door of our hearts.  All we must do is let Him in.  Yes, because of our freedom of choice, if we choose to follow God, we will be with Him forever in heaven.
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Most people 'accept' the 'theory' of evolution as being the prevailing theory at the moment.  That does not say they believe in it 100%.  However, in a biting retort, I could go on to say that the answer to your question is probably the same longing to make order of the universe that drives us to believe in gods and spirits, the existence of whom has never been proven.