can anyone believe in bible(story of creation) and at the same time believe in biologic evolution ?
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A creationist can accept micro evolution (adaptation within a species)  but one species becoming another or macro evolution is not Biblical nor is it provable.
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I believe that both creation and evolution rely on religious belief and are supported by scientific observation.  The fundamental beliefs vary as well as the interpretation of the scientific facts.\n\nAs for your points:\n\n1.  I would agree that Creationism does not fit the description of a testable, repeatable, scientific theory... but neither does evolution.  However, there are theories as to how observable scientific facts fit together to support both creation and evolution.\n\n2.  Some "believers" WILL accept evidence against their religion and some NON-believers WILL NOT accept any evidence supporting religion.  But this is irrelevant and does not lend scientific credibility to either side.\n\n3.  There are theories supporting both creation and evolution that allow for error and are peer reviewed.  In fact, many theories for both sides are continually modified, updated, or rejected based on new evidence.  In this way both ideas are very similar to all other pure scientific fields.\n\n4.  When talking about the origin of the universe and life, ANY theory must have its origin in belief of something that was not observed, cannot be repeated, and will not happen again, as well as the assumption that something existed in the first place to start it all.  Creationists believe in God and creation while Evolutionists believe in the Big Bang and a monstrously long list of extremely statistically improbable occurrences that take place in an amazingly perfect order.  Almost sounds like it needs "divine intervention"...
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Evolution is a theory. It is what science is all about. Religion and Science can go hand in hand. I believe the biblical creation story of 7 days to God is actually like a million years to us!! god gave man intellect to study the creators creation therefore study God's marvelous works. peace.
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Creationism by our Creator. And the evolution theory would be okay if it werent contradictory to scripture... The bible says He created everything according to its kind.  See Genesis 1:20.  Also if we evolved, why are we not stil evolving?
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This is a question that seems to come up a lot, but I love it anyway!\nIf the Bible is really God's word, then there is no problem at all with a literal 6 day creation story. (If you try to change that, then you have death before Adam sinned, and Eve could not be the mother of all living, etc ... disbelieving a literal 6 day creation will make you throw out more of the rest of the Bible than you get to keep.)\nI agree with the perspective that God could have created the earth with the appearance of age, created stars with light-years of light coming from them already, etc... I mean, if God can create everything, He can create it however he likes. (Side note on the age of the earth, did you know that according to evolution the earth is ageing millions of years per year? - Ask that one sometime!)\n\nBack when Darwin introduced the theory of Evolution to modern history (the idea goes back WAY before Darwin, but that's another story), he stated that for his theory to work, there must be evidence, and speculated on what it COULD look like - None exists today. Christians really dropped the ball on this one, and let this "theory" become equivalent to "science" (science must be observable and repeatable).\n\nIs there PROOF for creation? No (again, scientific proof must be observable and repeatable), there is not PROOF, but there is a lot more reasonable evidence that there is for creation.\n\nRegarding dinosours, the Bible actually speaks of them (and dragons) in the book of Job.\nSome remote cultures (The Congo, the Amazon, etc.) have recent (20th Century) stories of dinosaurs still living.\n\nThere's a lot more, but I don't want to get too long on you, so check out the link below for TONS more info, on this subject.
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My dads a christian minister, and he believes in evolution - he says that the creation story in the bible is like a parable, but in acutal fact it took much much longer than 7 days to create everything, and evolution is part of god's plan - it's how he created everything.  He says that evolution cannot be agrued with, as there are no holes in the 'theory' - it is a fact, not a theory,  so the only sensible way to look at the creation story is as a parable.
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Agreed.  They both can be believed together.  This is another point of evidence that the Fanatics on all sides are the one's making it difficult for others to be open minded.  You have certain Atheists who claim Evolution proves there is no God (Evolution does no such thing... it is not out to prove or disprove the supernatural.)  And then you have those Christians who claim that Creation could not have come about thru Evolution.  Which merely shows me that, though I'm not exactly super-intelligent on the subject of Evolution, but even I know better than to make silly statements such as these.
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As a Catholic I do not have to believe everything in the Bible and as for God creating the Earth in seven days - I suppose that was to help people 2000 years ago to understand creation.  Of course evolution took place and I have no problem with my religion or other theories.
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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.
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what we call proof now may be proven wrong in the future- it happens all the time.  The evidence to support creationism is the same evidence that cant disprove it.\n\nFirst of all, I believe in both- but it is also speculated that our evolution may have began on a different p[lanet all together- so you cant prove we evolved from apes, or anything else any more than you cant prove we were created as is.  The very science that so many people thinks KNOWS EVERYTHING and is ALWAYS RIGHT , is always proven wrong years later- and also cannot prove something to the point that reasonable doubt is eliminated.  The fact that your highly intelligent life form called science CANT disprove creationism, proves my point.  \n\nYou cant be a Christian without faith, or belief in the Bible, because that is what a CHRISTIAN is! I am not here to preach from a religious point, but why are people sold on things that arent proven, and claim that its because the other thing has no proof?  If you cant prove either one true or false- and they have to be proven either true or false to be fact- you cannot logically consider your belief intelligent either way, right?\n\nI could accept that possibly apes and humans may have evolved similarly, but DNA proves we are NOT of the same genus- YOUR science that backs evolution also proves against the most logical scenario from which we evolved- thats what I mean by science never being 100%--down the road, it always proves itself either wrong, or very slightly correct.
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evolution bible almost an oxymoron why do you want to know???
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Of course it's possible. Evolution is merely the mechanism of God's creation.\n\nPersonally, I feel the inherent contradiction is in the opposite direction. Rejection of evolutionary theory reduces God to a deceiver, to a 'God of parts' filling in the gaps in our understanding of creation, rather than underpinning it in it's entirety, it also rejects one of the greatest of God's gifts, the faculty of pure reason.\n\nPeople are, of course, welcome to their opinion, but I feel that the belief that God would create the universe in seven days, ten thousand years ago and then fix it in such a manner as to give all the impressions to the contrary is close to blasphemy
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Yes. Though Darwin's Theory of Evolution is just that, A THEORY, schools teach it as if it were scientific fact. It is not only idiotic, but blasphemy. The book of Genesis gives you all the information you need on creation. \n\nIt is quite ironic that many people don't believe the bible because, as they claim, it was written by men. (All scripture is divinely inspired - the obedient men of God wrote what they were inspired to write by God the Holy Spirit). But these same UNbelievers will believe such a ludicrous theory as that written by one man named Darwin. \n\nGo figure.\n\nP.S. A comment to your first answerer and to those who would agree with him/her: The wisdom of God is foolishness to those who perish. It will be quite an eye-opener for them when they finally meet their Maker.
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No idea. Evolution and the bible fit perfectly with one another but people want to be their own god so they wont accept creation. Remember God was the first. Before him there were no "days" so a day could mean thousands of years and that would work with evolution.
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Because of Charles Darwin and his theories on evolution. Personally, I feel that if they can teach Darwin's theory they should be able to teach biblical theory of creation as well.
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I also feel that both theories can exist together.  Evolution does NOT answer where and how life began, and where and how our humanity began.  Yet, the physical evidence of evolution is undeniable.  \n\nI'm agnostic, but feel that there is something more than chance that led to our existence.
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Contrary to some of your answers, I have never thought that the Big Bang theory or the Theory of Evolution and the Bible were mutually exclusive.\n\nPerhaps we are finally learning some of God's methods of Creation.