Creation (God) vs Evolution - Which one do you believe in?

Question

Which makes more sense?

Answer 1

God(Creation) and Evolution are not mutually exclusive.  Throughout human history, our growing knowledge of science is simply understanding how the hand of God works and has worked.  I agree that the very beginning of Genesis has a sequence of events remarkably similar to the current scientific consensus - dark, light, earth, rain, fish, mammals, humans.  How else would Man thousands of years ago have described Evolution and the Big Bang?  St. Thomas Aquinas spoke of different proofs of God, and the one that comes to mind here is "The First Cause".  Whatever we discover scientifically, however far back in time we can go, which is currently the Big Bang, Something had to be The First Cause of the first event.  That Something will always be God.  God/religion/mythology have always given us a framework to understand and have faith in that which we have yet to scientifically know.   My answer is BOTH.  If we are just a random collection of molecules, without soul or spirit or heart or hope, then life is meaningless.  The more we learn, the more we realize is left to learn.  How many millions of solar systems and planets and galaxies are out there?  How many new elements and forces and principles?  When will we find a chunk of matter that was created at the very beginning of the Big Bang that started our current Universe?  Why is it that there have been such an amazingly perfect set of coincidences to bring about our evolution, with the mind and hands and tool use and ability to leave the planet and nuke it?  Check out Stephen Hawkings, Brief History of Time, where he points some of these out - gravity had to be just so, evolution of other species had to be just so, temperature and chemical composition and distance from the sun and the type of sun and the right type of atmosphere and magnetosphere and planetary core, all had to be just so.... WHAT A COINCIDENCE, EH?

Answer 2

The one that I believe in and the one that makes more sence to me is Creation (God).

Answer 3

I am an ex agnostic that science led to God.

Evolutionist's will tell you that science stands with them and God is a myth. What they will not tell you is that today's science has torn evolution to shreds.The evidence for intelligent design actually far outweighs the evidence for evolution. You can decide what designed it.

To the gentleman below me that says the Dead Sea scrolls have not  been found, he must be in a cave himself. They have not only been found but science has shown that the accuracy of today's old testament is over 94% from the originals. An incredible feat never even closely matched by any other ancient documents found that have been re written over the years. As for those that say there is no evidence for intelligent design a creator (I will not argue what creator) they have not really been looking into science, physics and biology recently. They must just be believing what their textbooks in high school said, without doing any objective research.

Answer 4

ok - I believe in evolution  BUT....... someone had to have put the very first  micro organism there to evolve - didnt they - so i believe god did that.

Answer 5

Evolution has tons of physical evidence to back it up (fossil record, continental drift, molecular evidence, absolute dating, etc.) too much to list here. While creationism is faith based which has no physical evidence to back it up. For instance, things that are only a few thousand years old such as Noah's arch and the dead sea scrolls cannot be found(all the here say that they can be found has produced no results, only excuses), but multiple scientists can find and test physical evidence that is millions of years old, to support evolution.  

Here is something I found very interesting about the book of genesis. It states that the earth was made something like 3 days (correct me if I'm wrong) before the sun. If this is the case, how were they able to tell 3 days had passed before the sun was created??? There was no sunset to distinguish the days and the clock wasn't invented and a sun dial would have been useless considering the sun wasn't created yet.  So in other words the bible is a book of fairy tales that was created to suppress the lay people in early times (take some ancient history classes and you will figure this one out). For instance the bible used during the early 1500's was in Latin, and people were not allowed to have their own copies nor could they interpret it because no one except the minister/pastors could interpret and read Latin. Also, people who created translated versions of the bible such as William Tyndale were burned at the stake.  Therefore, the bible was a means of controlling people or could be considered an early form/branch of government used to scare people into doing whatever the people in power wanted.

Overall, everyone is entitled to their own opinions, I just prefer physical evidence that can be tested multiple times by multiple people. So, if you can't tell yet.....I believe EVOLUTION is CORRECT!!!!

Answer 6

In my opinion Evolution because who knows maybe God doesn't exist so I believe in the scientific theory of the creation.

Answer 7

As the science stands, Eolution is the most plausible theory of where humanity comes from.  Yet, as a Christian, I believe if humanity does come from some sort of evolution process. God must have a hand in the progress.  God simply couldn't explain all the biological theories to Moses, who wrote, or compsed the book of Genesis.

As evolution stands now, there are a lot of holes in the theory.  For one species to evolve from one form to another, the explaination provided by evolution is time.  As long as you give it enough of time, miracles will happen, which is saying giving a monkey a typewriter, and let it strike the keys randomly for eons.  It will eventually come up with the complete work of Shakespeare.  

Also, the method for identifying fossils, carbon dating, is troublesome as well.  Carbon-14 is the low level radiation which is believed to exist among all species since the beginning of time, and is measured to decide the age of the fossile.  What is troubling about the method is that how do we know the carbon-14 radiation of the animals millions of years ago is the same as the carbon-14 radiation of the animals now?  

Also, we only have carbon dating as our only methold determining fossil's age, what if the carbon-dating is ineffective for dating fossils beyond 10,000 years old.  What if all the fossils we dug up now is no older than 10,000 years?  This would completely invalidate Evolution theory since time is often the only answer for species' evolution.

Humans used to firmly believe Earth is flat or Earth is the center of the universe.  How can we be sure evolution is the definite theory of where we come from?  To answer your question, I guess I have to say I believe in both.

XR

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*Book of Genesis describes how God created universe, first there was dark, then light, lands and sea seperates, animals and finally Adam and Eve, which is precisely the order how scientists believe the universe is form, nothingness/big bang --> stars are formed --> planets like earth cooled down and form bodies of water --> animals evolving or otherwise --> humans.

*Currently creation theory is a theory of debunking Evolution and poking at the holes of evolution process.  For creation theory to stand alone as a scientific, it must have direct evidence that would prove the assumptions in the theory, which is hard to do, since it would often fall into the trap of the simle-minded explaination of 'God just created it just because I say so', much like evolution theory based on prolong period of time, which can't really be proved.

Answer 8

It is not really a matter of believing.  Evolution is a fact.  Since it is a fact, it makes more sense.  It is the exact mechanisms of evolution that are debated in science.  

For those of you with the "evolution is just a theory" line, gravitation is just a theory too.  Let me know how "not believing" in gravity works out for you.

Answer 9

We have not seen either of them. All the proofs are indirect. Therefore when evolution is the truth, GOD also can be truth. GOD has created the first life. Then he only started the evolution process. He regulates the evolution. He also takes care of malfunctioning of his system so that nothing is evolved into a demon.

Now with present load of population its God's intention to reduce the same. Therefore he is allowing few demons to be evolved in the disguise of politicians.

At the end and at the beginning everything is created and controlled by GOD. Now the story of Adam and Eve is just a story. This was created by GOD himself just to guide the human mind towards good. May be the first evolved man was named ADAM.

Answer 10

Evolution is the only reasonable explanation.

Answer 11

Evolution, the only one with any real evidence behind it. Creationism is just one of many myths about the beginning of the world created by ancient cultures.

Answer 12

In logical terms.

Creation = one leap of faith. He created.

Intelligent design = 3,000,0000 leaps of faith. Something greater than us helped mold the evolution of the world animals and us.

Evolution = 300,000,000,000 leaps of faith all the elocutionary chains that went nowhere. All those incremental leaps that craete a new animal, that can not be recreated.

Answer 13

What would hold up in a court of law???? First, you need physical evidence which evolution has!!!! Creation is nothing more than a figment of peoples imagination who are not bright enough to understand the complexity of Evolution.

Thistlemaid and Marc-guyr....quit riding the fence, there is a huge difference between evolution and creation, considering one contradicts the other. Also, thistlemaid a miracle would be someone saving us from your stupidity, the big bang theory is not a miracle and if you could actually understand it I might waste my time explaining it to you. But, Obviously you don't understand it so why waste my time.

Answer 14

Hmmm, I never thought of it as and "either/or" thing...I believe God created Evolution.  Just because humans are not capable of creating something that changes and evolves and adapts over time, doesn't mean the Being that Created All is limited in such a way!  It also doesn't mean that those evolutions and adaptations did not proceed exactly the way they were MEANT to.

The Big Bang: basically science says that first there was nothing.

Then the nothing exploded for no reason.

Then everything was HERE!!

If that's not a miracle - explain to me what is! LOL!!

:)

AT

Answer 15

Creation, I believe God.  I believe that God created everything and that over the years evolution occurred as well.  I believe that God is the Creator.  You asked what I believe, this is it.

Answer 16

which one do I 'believe in?'  That implies faith.  I have faith in God and his word says he created the earth and all that is in it.  So, I believe in creation.

Answer 17

Both, God created matter and started to chain of events that generated humans.

Answer 18

Evolution.  There is scientific evidence leading to that theory.  I find that makes much more sense than religious mythology.  I don't trust religious leaders.  I think they just made creation stories up.