Is this true? Or is it just how things are observed to be, lacking any proof of divine guidance?
no plan, no design, and no purpose, it's just craziness to try to superimpose them on each other and claim "Look - they fit together perfectly!"
Can you not conceive of how they fit together perfectly? I will grant you that if "evolution" means "there is no creator, only random chance," you have a point that they contradict.
But if "evolution" is taken to mean that life forms change and adapt over time, there is no contradiction. There is nothing inhernetly contradictory about believing that God may have created life in such a way that it evolved over time.
SD
To try to fit God the creator into the TOE, one has to deny the very premise of the TOE.
All scriptures of the world that I am familiar with state that God created all life forms at the very beginning of creation. He didn't evolve them.
People want to fit the concept of God the creator into the TOE because they don't want to be labeled as knuckle dragging fanatics by the educated elites.
Well, I say screw the educated elites. I don't care about thier opinions, which only serve as weights about their necks.
>But if "evolution" is taken to mean that life forms change and adapt over time, there is no contradiction. There is nothing inhernetly contradictory about believing that God may have created life in such a way that it evolved over time. <
Actually there is.Evolution implies in common usage a beneficial change over time .The Bible does not teach that man is getting better(evolving over time)Our Flesh is actually getting further from perfection.We only get better in spirit through the grace of Jesus Christ.Our bodies will only evolve when we exchange them in glory.