So if i believe in evolution, i don't believe in creationism??

Question

So if i believe in evolution, i don't believe in creationism??

Answer 1

Some people are unwilling to believe that evolution was invoked by a higher power.  One has to understand the mind set in the mid 1800's in order to understand the ruckus Darwin started when he was developing his theories.

Try and transcend what mere mortals believe and look at the world without invoking humanity.

Answer 2

We have to make sure that we define our terms.

To believe in evolution does not mean you have to not believe in God.  My own viewpoint as both a devout layman in a mainstream Protestant church and the holder of two degrees in Biological Anthropology is that God created the universe and that He designed it so that life would appear and that beings would evolve with whom He could have fellowship.

Creationism is not the same thing.  Creationists believe that the Bible must be interpreted literally.  Thus the creationist believes that God created every living thing separately, in kinds with uncrossable boundaries between them and every other kind.  For them to believe otherwise calls into question the very existence of God.  Usually they will also believe that the earth is of recent origin.  

(Please note that this is just a very generalized overview of creationism).

Answer 3

One or the other.  Mixing the two is a cop - out!

Answer 4

That would be a correct statement. Creationism believes in a literal 7-day creation according to the account in Genesis. However you can still believe in Creation as the work of God and also believe in evolution.

Answer 5

A creationist can believe in whatever he wants. All creationism means is that you believe there is AN intelligent will behind the creation of this world. That is all. If darwinian evolution explains it for you, then go ahead and be a Darwinian evolutionist. You can still believe in an intelligence to generate this.

    I can believe in as much or as little as I want, however a hardcore atheist can't believe in anything that he can't see.

Answer 6

Generally no...though I think there are some people think 'god' created the beginning of everything and set evolution into motion.

Answer 7

Yes, if you believe in Evolution you cannot believe in Creationism.  If you did believe in both you would be a walking contradiction.  Creationism is the believe that we were all created by an almighty power (aka God) where as evolution is the believe that we have all derived from single celled organisms of most basic structure and over millions and millions of years we have adapted, evolved and changed to better suit our surroundings.  I think evolution is a bit more believable.

Answer 8

Your question seems to present evolution and creationism as alternatives or opposites, but they are not.

Creationism is a religious doctrine.  The Theory of Evolution is a scientific description of facts, not a religious claim.

Scientists work on eliminating all theories and claims that are contradicted by facts.  As a consequence, scientific theories change as more and more facts of evidence come to light.  Eventually, they may hope to reduce the theory to a single interpretation.

Scientific theories are held as tentative and subject to being trashed at any time when contradicting evidence is found.  Religious claims, such as a fundamentalist literal interpretation of Genesis, are held without allowing that evidence can contradict them - if it does, the evidence must be discarded (see the section on science teaching on the website of Bob Jones "University".)

Creationism is very unlike science.  Its basic assumptions, such as a literal interpretation of the Genesis narrative, are assumed to be unchangeable.  Religious belief is by faith, not by evidence.

And while a scientific description proceeds toward the goal of a single correct interpretation of the evidence, creationism multiplies its ideas all over the map.  There are lots of creation stories, and each culture has a different one.

It is only ignorant fundamentalists who can imagine that the Hebrew creation myth in Genesis is the only form of creationism.  If they really want creationism taught in schools they need to face the fact that the Mayans, the Hindus, the American Indians, and many others have creation accounts no more and no less valid.  They should all be taught, in anthropology classes.

Answer 9

ONE Jewish fellow says that God made everything in a few days and everyone goes crazy with what he said. of course God took a while creating life.and were steadily trying to exterminate so many of God creatures. protecting what God  made is what we should be concerned with

the Japanese are trying there best to kill off the whales.

the Chinese just finished off the bijii river dolphin last month.

Answer 10

Not necessarily, it is possible to believe that god created the big bang, and paved our way with mass extinctions, etc., just not a literal version of the bible, in which the sun stopped in the sky, or Eve was created from Adam's rib. Even the catholics have given up the fight as lost: it is only the fundamentalist christians, moslems and a small number of jews who are still holding out.

Answer 11

Not necessarily.  Why couldn't God have a role in evolution?  I have to say that while in college as anthro major, many professors were respectful of religion and often brought up places that were mention in the bible.  Why couldn't have God created australopithecines and let them morph into something else?

Answer 12

Not as a creationist would have it; literally.

PS It does not matter what you believe, as the truth does not care about your beliefs and is true, regardless whether you believe it or not. Evolution, the change in allele frequency over time in a population, is fact, supported by evidence. Creationism is a " story ".

PPS And it does not matter if you like the truth, or not.

Answer 13

Evolution and belief in the literal translation of Creation in Genesis is not compatible. Some Christians believe that God used evolution and that the 1st seven days in Genesis is not a literal 24 hr day, and tha evolution occurred in that time.

I would like to add thought the people who have told you that   evolution is based on scientific evidence and that Creationism is a story, if honest would have to admit that there is little empirical evidence for evolution. No understanding of how the process of life even started, an very incomplete fossil record, only a couple of doubtful fossil's that qualify as transitional out of the thousands that there should be all over. Just a string of hypothesis's hung together by "faith" and taught in school as fact without teaching the problems or conflicting evidence.

Answer 14

According to creationism, god created each species.

According to evolution, species evolved.

Although you can believe in god and evolution, creationism contradicts evolution, so you can't believe both.

I'd suggest you believe the one with the evidence and reason on it's side.

If you also want to believe that god started it off, or programmed it, or whatever, fine.

Answer 15

Without taking a strict definition, I think you can believe in both.

As in, I'm religious but I also know that truth is always what society makes it.

Therefore, I believe in evolution.  And I believe in G-d.

As long as you don't take a strict, word-for-word interpretation of the Bible you can do that.  (And really, who would?  It's been translated so many times and carried down by so many people who had to rewrite it to make new copies and who had individual views and political pressures there's no way it's intact in its original form.  Plus, come on, the term Jehovah came from a misinterpretation of the original Hebrew word YHWH, assumed to be Yahweh since the vowels were purposely skipped..)

Right, that's not a very good answer, but seeing as how all the good ones got thumbs down I don't want to do any better than that.

Answer 16

This depends upon what you mean by "creationism."  You can believe God created the universe via big bang cosmology and guided its subsequent evolution, and the evolution of life on earth.

What I find amusing is that most "creationists" believe evolution occurred much faster than most evolutionary biologists are willing to concede is possible.  What I mean by this is that most creationists think Noah took only two of many species on board his ark, some 4000 years ago.  Two (or perhaps 7) antelope, for example.  There are now 150 species of antelope in Africa alone.  Far greater diversity than most scientists would expect is possible over that protracted period of time.

You can "believe" whatever you want.  The wise man, as other noted here, tends to accept what the evidence indicates, whether that suits his personal beliefs or not.

Answer 17

Correct...well,sort of.Most creationism follows the Bible literally,but you can still believe in God and know evolution is true.Nobody really knows how life started.Even if the Big Bang is true,is that where it really begins?Anyways,I think metaphysics is a waste of time.