I find it amazing that one cannot be a person of faith AND an adherent of evolution. Why can’t evolution be part of God?
I get arguments from both sides of this issue and neither side makes much sense to me.
With all due and sincere respect, your confusion is due to lack of depth in spiritual maturity or/and scriptural discipling. IMHO
sakic,
I suggest you Google Francis Collins. He currently is the Director of the National Institute of Health. Prior to his appointment he was in charge of the Human Genome Project and is credited with mapping the Human Genome in 2003. He also studies how cell mutation creates cancer. He is a world famous scientist, believes in God and that he is save by the grace of Jesus and believes that God uses evolution to create all living things.
In other words, "God used evolution", right? Two problems... One, God does not use broken tools and, two, as Clint Eastwood so eloquently noted ("The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly"), "God hates idiots too", meaning that there no possibility of God being on the side of an evolutionite.
>>>Why can’t evolution be part of God?
Because the idea of an intelligent designer — God — makes sense, and plausibly explains mysterious phenomenon like the linguistic code nature of DNA; the idea of small incremental changes from random causes over long periods of time — Darwinian evolution — makes no sense, and requires highly implausible scenarios to explain these same phenomena.
>>>I find it amazing that one cannot be a person of faith AND an adherent of evolution.
On the contrary, Darwinian evolution itself is a kind of religion — the 20th century’s version of a purely materialistic creation myth — and actually requires LOTS of faith.