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whats wrong with God creating the universe with

posted 16 years ago by charleecrat
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the ability to evolve? Seems to me if God did create the heavens and earth, he would have been smart enough to give it the ability to adapt to its enviorment. I am a christian, however I believe the earth is way older than 6 thousand years. A day to God may be thousands of years to us. I think there is an explanation for everything in the bible. Perhaps it was written for the people of its time. Parables were used to explain certain situations. I am no scholar by any means, but I believe we have a creator. And just beacause a lung fish may or may not have crawled from the sea and walked ,does not mean there is no creator.

If all of this started by chance, an ameaba (sp) then who created it and why? Some day we will all find out, one way or another.

[–] djb371 16 years ago

I think we can all at least agree that god must be some sort of flying spaghetti monster though, I mean, c'mon, there are gaps in science and the flying spaghetti monster fills those gaps perfectly. Now you know Charleecrat.

[–] lvd_orders 16 years ago

I don't think there is anything wrong with it. In fact, even finding instances of actual design by God (like the first cell or so forth) wouldn't really be incompatible with evolutionary theory which again can only describe materialistic mechanisms for natural history. It is the fact of natural history itself that creationists take into question, which of course flusters the scientists because all the rocks and the genes and the embryos say--yes, there's common descent with modification.

What you've described I've heard called theistic evolution and it is complementary to scientific thinking. Of course there are a great number of fundamentalists and athiests who will tell you this is not true, but I don't listen to either of them.

[–] PB_Rescuer 16 years ago

Absolutely nothing is wrong with believing this. The problem is teaching this BELIEF in a science class :)

[–] mcornett 16 years ago

There is a school of theological thought that teaches that a Creator set the universe and its laws in motion, and that we are the result of those laws. The Creator may or may not have tampered or boosted the process along the way, it all depends on your belief.

[–] shutupandplay 16 years ago

I believe mcornett is referring to Deism specifically, for those that didn't know.
This is God as a sort of watchmaker. Deism was extremely influential in the 18th century and many of the Founding Fathers were Deists (some even denied the divinity of Christ altogether).