Atheists, would you believe the Bible if Genesis said that we had evolved from apes? ?

Question

If evolution were true, don't you think God would have admitted it? Wouldn't He have just cleared everything up by saying, "Billions of years ago, I created the Earth. Then I made some sea creatures like shellfish and scaly fish. Then I made amphibians, which I made turn into reptiles, then I made mammals. Then I took one of the mammals, a monkey, and made an ape out of it. Then I took the ape and changed its brain and voice box and made it stand up. Then I made humans out of them." If you saw that written, wouldn't you just think the Bible was the greatest book ever written, and historically "accurate"?

Maybe the reason why He DIDN'T write that is because it isn't true?

Answer 1

Huh?

Harriet

Answer 2

"Not possible by human effort alone."

Ehhehehee. Really?

You seriously underestimate what humans can do. "Humans couldn't have taken a bunch of texts, edited them and slammed them inside single covers"

Quite the miracle that.

Answer 3

no, i woudlnt

Answer 4

Did God create bananas?  If they didn't evolve, then it's just shoddy workmanship.

Answer 5

Since evolution is true and " god " lied about it I guess he doesn't exist .  

Answer 6

From Genesis 1:11 you will read on phrase over and over again.  "According to it's kind."

Yet, God is known to have taken DNA from one and make another.  Eve.  However he made her 'according to her kind' as well.

Answer 7

Well Lets put it this way...

The bible is only used to describe what life was like if you followed Jesus. Unfortunately there is no historical evidence proving that God does exist. Unfortunately there is only historical evidence on Evolution which voluntarily i disagree with.

A lot of people think the easiest pathway is to go with evolution because that is the type of world we are from, People want evidence. BUT...If you truely believe that there is a God (like me) then you life of prasing and worshipping God will come aboard.

It is a decision i've made. I use to need evidence but there aint never going to be any so all you can really do is believe and thats as far as you can go.

But for your question Christian would not no the answer as for a fact they think differently to athiest about the ways of the world came.

Hope that helped Explain

Answer 8

Maybe it's because the bible is a work of poorly-conceived, short-sighted, ridiculous fiction.  Something else the bible doesn't mention are dinosaurs, yet they're proven to exist.  Why don't you prove that Adam and the rib woman existed since, clearly, there's more proof for the scientific view than whatever rubbish you're throwing out there.

Incidentally, no, I still wouldn't believe the bible.  Genesis is far from the only problem the book presents.

Answer 9

Did it ever occur to you that "HE" never wrote anything? The Bible is the work of Bronze age story tellers who borrowed from earlier religions and did not have a clue about biology.

Answer 10

Goat herders wrote the bible, just in case you didn't know that.

Answer 11

It might not make a lot of sense to ask atheists to consider what god thinks.

Answer 12

Even IF the Bible said that, I still wouldn't worship it's god, so why would it matter?  

Answer 13

The MEN who wrote the bible knew nothing of science, it's so blatantly obvious. I'm sorry you're saddled with this ancient conundrum of faith based on archaic folk tales, that doesn't allow for new information even after 2,000 years.

Answer 14

Wow

Answer 15

No.

Perhaps I'd think that the Bible got one thing right--leaving many dozens of other mistakes left uncorrected.

And for the umpteenth time, we ARE apes.

Answer 16

Evolution is still a theory. The theory can be true even when creation is the fact.

Just like the sun rises in the east and sets in west.

have you ever thought the logic of the day and time, that at acertain time the day and time in one point of our earth is say,  12 midnight September 3rd 2008, and in another place not less than 100 mtrs, the time is 12 midnight of 2nd september 2008.

It is so accepted for some scientific reasons. But it doesn't mean it is a previous day for the latter place.

Answer 17

So what you're asking is "If the Bible involved logic to some degree, would you believe it." Well, not exactly. I'm not a Christian and as such I don't have that "It must be true, it's in a book." mentality that most Christians seem to. I would, however, consider it.

Not that that matters of course because as it is the Bible doesn't seem to have many plausible ideas.

Answer 18

If the bible stated one scientific truth ahead of it's time it would be worthy of more serious consideration. By the way, the bible also states that God stopped the motion of the sun to allow victory to Joshua. This makes no sense. It would have been more appropriate to stop the motion of the earth. People would not have understood that at the time, but it would have been a scientific truth discoverable later.

Answer 19

There's tons of evidence on evolution. The only thing that protects christians' beliefs is a book.

Answer 20

Would I believe it? Nope. It's still a giant sack of bull c**p.

Maybe the reason you can't prove the bible is true is because it isn't?

Osnap, your road goes both ways. =)

Answer 21

Proof enough that it isn't real. Humans 2,000+ years ago didn't know anything about evolution (or science for that matter). No deity throughout history has been proven to write a text of any kind.

Answer 22

The Bible has problems; for instance, there are two stories of Eve's creation (dust, rib). That's just sloppy editing.

Answer 23

Heh.  If evolution is true and Genesis is wrong, perhaps god didn't write it, no?

Could you kindly explain the two contradictory accounts of creation in Genesis?

Answer 24

Sure, I'm bound to do anything in outlandish hypotheticals.

Answer 25

Your poor argument makes the assumption that there is a god and the bible is true.  

Answer 26

you are missing the point!!!

Answer 27

"If evolution were true, don't you think God would have admitted it?"

The Bible isn't about God anyway, it's about the opinions of misogynistic, discriminatory and bigoted males.

Answer 28

So much talk about monkeys and bananas, I guess you all know what it is you are talking about. God Bless You all the same.

Answer 29

No. Even if the bible said evolution was true and that humans came from apes, I wouldn't believe it, for two reasons.

1). There are still scores of verses that go against proven scientific theory.

2). Evolution doesn't say we came from apes.

Answer 30

Fundamentalism, Evangelicalism, Biblical Literalism, Intelligent Design, Young Earth Creationism isn't the norm...You're making the assumption that the bible is the literal truth in conflict with the vast majority of biblical scholars and most Christians around the world.  All of those things are pretty much rejected by everyone except about 25% of the Christians in the US.  Even the roman catholic church believes in evolution with the caveat that it was started by god or god gave humans the divine spark... and if I were a christian i'd be inclined to trust their almost 2000 years of study of the bible over your less than <insert your age here.>

Answer 31

Thats pretty funny, the way you wrote that...it made me laugh..but there is one problem...there is no God and evolution is supported by fact. Sorry to burst that rather large bubble you've been hiding in.