Again you did not answer my question. My question was:
Why does God need evolution to make man?
Your answer is weak and generic. Of course God can do whatever he wants. That is not an answer to my specific question.
The answer you don’t want to give, is that God does not need evolution to make man. He could make man exactly the way God’s Word describes how man was made.
My answer to your question is: while God could have made man in a billion different ways, including ways we cannot even think of right now, we know how man was made because God’s Word tells us how God made the first man.
And I will also say the biblical account of creation is the only account one can believe in and not run into biblical errors with. If you believe man evolved from other lower life forms, the whole natural selection/death process was in place - but God’s Word says that death only entered the world because of man’s sin. So you are in severe conflict on this point.
Further under natural selection and evolution, death equals progress. Dying off of weaker things in order for stronger to survive, death turns out to be a positive mechanism under this view. But the bible says that death is an enemy of man. So you are now in a large conflict on this point.
And finally if man evolved he was not created in the image of God. So again you are in severe contradiction to God’s Word on this topic as well.
God does not need evolution to make man.
Why do you limit what God can do?
St. Augustine also comments on the word “day” in the creation week, admitting the interpretation is difficult:
“But simultaneously with time the world was made, if in the world’s creation change and motion were created, as seems evident from the order of the first six or seven days. For in these days the morning and evening are counted, until, on the sixth day, all things which God then made were finished, and on the seventh the rest of God was mysteriously and sublimely signalized. What kind of days these were it is extremely difficult, or perhaps impossible for us to conceive, and how much more to say!” (City of God, Book 11: Chapt. 6).
Great answer. but like I posted earlier, if you have problems with the first 4 words of the Bible, well, youre in trouble! Repeating, It says: In the beginning GOD!! What more can anyone question? I see it as doubting what God said!! If He said it, Its the truth, and I can rest in that. with no questions or wonderings!!
Great post! The fact is - one cannot claim to be a practicing Christian and believe in evolution. To do as such would mean a person picks and chooses which parts of the Bible are useful, and throws the rest in the scrap heap.
Which brings about the reason those who claim to be Christian, while defending evolution are so rabid and easily offended - they are forced to confront that reality - the conflict within.