Can you believe in both evolution (as a process) and God?

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I agree @Joanne.1966

True Science has already proven evolution, minus God, completely impossible. So simple that a child can understand. Nothing can create something from nothing. Something can change, grow, branch off, etc. But there has to be something to start with. “But it can’t be God”. After this, nothing created something, then everything, hot blooded cold blodded, trees, mosquitoes, fish, birds, and all of mankind? DNA and biology tell us different. “Oh, and there is no God.”

Well, the age of the Earth proves the Bible wrong. “There is no God.” Are you sure? Did God create two babies and change their diapers, nurse them, and watch them grow? No, God created full-grown people with a very complex physicality.

Is the Earth 6 thousand years old? Six million years old? Six days old? I have no idea. Is there a reason God created it the way He did? Of course. God created the very complex universe that supports our life, in which He placed the very complex physicality of human beings.

“BUT THERE IS NO GOD!!!” (Sigh) Where did the first something come from? We don’t know but no God. It has always been there, life, not God, a Comet or something, but not God. Everything evolved from this first something. “Well, just because we cannot understand it, does not mean there is a God.”

The problem these people have is that once you leave out all possibilities, you have junk science. Garbage. Look at a painting, and you see there was an artist. All the paint did not come together, and the brush from nowhere, and the picture evolved from a blank page to what we see today. “But there is no artist!” You see how silly that is? Oh, then you got this.

“The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good.” Psalm 14:1

Peter

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I do believe in God’s creation and evolution at the same time. However I am of the belief that most people have it wrong and that it is not man’s physicality that evolves, but an inner evolution. In other words, we are spiritually evolving.

Science is fairly smart but it has not disproven the Bible. In fact it is slowly proving the Bible is true. Science will come up with a new discovery and then another coherent individual will realize, hey that’s what the Bible has been saying all along.

I remember when we was kids and learning evolution in school. We didn’t even believe it then and so the joke became (walking together and there’s a mud puddle…) Hey there’s your Mom Billy! And point to the mud puddle, lol.

Genesis is not poetry Sister. It is history. I heard a sermon from a Pastor once and He explained how God created the earth in 6 days and why we see it as 13 billion years.

We see as through a glass darkly. So when you look through binoculars you can see a great distance, right? Now turn the bino’s around and look through the other end. It looks like 13B years and it’s distorted, as through a glass darkly. You have God at one end looking through all time and seeing it all clearly. Then you have us looking backwards and not being in proper focus.

That made sense to me.

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The phylogenetic trees of cephalopods is pretty well studied.

Also, as someone who accepts the standard theory of evolution, I also believe in creation. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

These are not mutually exclusive statements.

I also believe that God creates each individual person in their mother’s womb. God created and formed me in my mother’s womb–but that doesn’t mean I have to deny the natural process of sexual reproduction. These are not mutually exclusive positions.

Christians can, and often do, believe in both science and creation.

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