Is it possible to believe in Creation through evolution? I don’t think God and science are mutually exclusive.
A great many of us believe that evolution is the how, but God is the Why.
I have no idea. I only know that God works in mysterious ways. And I also have to admit that I have absolutely no idea how old the earth is. And furthermore, that doesn’t bother me a bit.
That's not the problem.
Visit a few creationist threads to see what the problem is.
Search for articles posted by GodGunsGuts.
I know with absolute certainty that my God and Science are not mutually exclusive. But what I know is of no value whatsoever to people who are incapable of grasping, or even imagining how that could be possible.
I prefer to argue and persuade without using God or the bible as a crutch.
Removing the church or God from discussions leaves the pervs looking silly; without either a target or ideas. Profanities, name-calling and screaming can only go so far.
Logically, since God created the world, He also knows all the scientific principles behind its “good” establishment. I took a college Bio 101 class last year and many times the word “chance” was used and there was no explanation for the sudden appearance of flowers all over the globe.
The important thing to remember is this:
1 Corinthians 13
” 8 Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues (languages), they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away.
9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part;
10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away.”
In other words, only love will be eternal, all those principles in effect today will be moot when heaven and earth are one and we are living with God.
Nice to think about, eh?
But evolution and science are mutually exclusive!
I don’t think Jim is saying ‘Dont believe’. He is saying that this site has core beliefs. And a group of people was dedicated to disrupting threads that dealt with the science that supports Creation. It was pretty wild-n-wooly there for a while.
Having said that, I used to believe and ask as you have. Couldn’t God have Created using evolution as His ‘tool’? He could have, but the Bible does not say or support that.
Genesis clearly says that man was created by God, that He gace the ‘breath of life’. It does not say that man was allowed to come into being from unlike animals.
I don’t believe in Creation through evolution, I believe that there was Creation and that evolution is a subsequent and ongoing process.