Evolution and creation together?

Question

Is there any article that states divine creation and evolution might be together some way? 10 POINTS

Answer 1

Together?

There are people who think that some god "started" evolution.

But "creation theory" contradicts science -- for example, insisting the Earth is only a few thousand years old, rather than about 4.5 billion.

Answer 2

http://www.drdino.com/downloads.php

This is an absolutley wonderful website to go to for stuff like this. Just download the different movies. Dinosaurs and the Bible is my personal favorite.

Proof Evolution is a lie:

1. The slowing spin of the earth limits the earth's age

2. The 1/2 inch layer of cosmic dust on the moon indicates the moon has not been accumulating dust for billions of years

3. Jupiter's moon, Io, is losing matter to Jupiter. It cannot be billions of years old

4. The shrinking sun limits the earth-sun relationship to fewer than billions of years. The sun is losing both mass and diameter. Changing the mass would upset the fine gravitational balance that keeps the earth at just the right distance for life to survive

5. The oldest known historical records are less than 6,000 years old

6. The oldest living coral reef is less than 4,200 years old (Couldn't be 6,000 because The Flood would have destroyed it)

7. Biblical dates add up to about 6,000 years

8. The oceans are getting saltier. If they were billions of years old, they would be much saltier than they are now

9. The existance of short-period comets indicates the universe is less than billions of years old

10. At the rate many star clusters are expanding, they could not have been traveling for billions of years

http://www.evanwiggs.com/articles/reason

This also is another good website.

Answer 3

No valid article.

Answer 4

The positions that try to combine evolution and creation are known as 'compromise position'.

They include

Theistic evolution (evolution with some divine help along the way)

Gap Theory (Big bang followed by billions of years before God created man)

Progressive creation (big bang followed by long 'days' of creation)

Various other combinations along these lines.

You can read much more about them here

http://creationontheweb.com/content/view...

What they all have in common is that they are contradicted by observation and operational science, and they are contradicted by the Bible.

The only position which fits both scientific observation and the bible is recent creation.

Answer 5

Are you talking about crevolution.  

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/crevolut...

Fear of teaching evolution.

Scroll down that article and see another debate going on.

Interesting.

Answer 6

A number of the creationism theories (and they're only theories include evolution as part of the process.

Here are the theories

"Young Earth" Created by supernatural means 6-10,000 years ago

"Old Earth" Earth is millions, not thousands of years old. This theory has several versions:

    "Gap" Earth is old but had fallen into decay. Life was begun on the old planet. This does address fossil evidence.

    "Progressive" God allows certain things natural selection and mutations (evolution) to occur but will directly intervene as required.

    "Framework Interpretation" holds the Genesis account isn't literal but more represents the outline of how life came to be.(evolution)

    "Day Age" Here it's held that "Day" can be thousands of millions of years. The world was crated in 6 "days" but it was over a very long time.

"Theistic" AKA  "evolutionary creationism", creation is compatible with  scientific theory (evolution) as it is a tool used by God,

" Literal" God created everything in 6 days right before 23 October  4004 BC. Everything in Genesis is correct and true.

In short, other then the Adam and Eve version, most creation theories (and they are only theory's) have some form of evolution in them

Answer 7

I'm certain if an idea can be articulated, someone somewhere has. Or will.

Answer 8

Oh sure.  "Better safe than sorry"

Answer 9

I would just like to say that, though I don't know about articles, yes, it is definitely a valid theory--and one that I firmly subscribe to--that God and evolution are both true.

The basic idea is that one is not to take the creation story in Genesis literally. After all, a "day" is measured by the earth and the sun, why would there be "days" before the earth and sun were created? And is there really another ocean above the sky? Thus we can't take all of it literally, and the rest could just as easily be metaphorical, too. You have to remember that, while the people writing these things down were inspired by God, they were still people, and they wouldn't even have understood what it meant if they were told to write down a scientific explanation of the beginning of the universe.

Thus, with the creation story being taken as a metaphor, it fits much better. After all, scientists still don't know why it Big Banged in the first place. So then God could have started it all up with the Big Bang and let it all come together according to the laws of physics. After all, it's not like He'd get bored waiting for it. Then we can think of the various stages of Biblical creation as stages of evolution, and Adam and Eve as symbolizing the first hominids who left the Garden of Eden (a metaphor for blissful ignorance) by achieving human intelligence (and all the pain that goes with it). After all, "Knowledge of Good and Evil" could mean that their intelligence allowed to make good things (e.g. medicine) and bad things (e.g. war), and the saying "Eat the fruit and you'll die" could easily symbolize "Become intelligent and your descendants will kill each other."

There's just no contradiction as long as you aren't narrow-mindedly literalistic in your interpretation of the Bible.

P.S. Anyone who thinks that the scientific evidence is against evolution and the world being billions of years old is obviously not a scientist who has actually *examined* the scientific evidence.

Answer 10

I don't think that they could be put together! I mean, u believe in god or you don't! Two totally different ideas. But I don't really understand the question so sorry!