I've been hearing a lot of debates out there where religious people insist that the world was created by a devine power, while others say that it was created by evolution.
Why cant both be true?
Chew on this:
If we think of the scientific theory of how the world was created, we "know" that it was created by the Big Bang. Billions and billions of tiny little particals evolving and turning into everything we have now.
If we think of the religious theory of how the world was created, we "know" that God created the heaven and the earth and everything in between.
Obviously, evolution is a proven theory. It constantly being shown by the discovery of fossils that date back millions of years. Groups of fossils that show change over time *evolution* and how we went from a quatraped, small brained organism, to a biped educated organism that now rules the world. Its been showed by Darwin that animals evolve. Even now, its being shown by new DNA tests. For those of you who believe that we evolved from apes, I think you have the wrong picture. Common ancestery says that we came from the same organism as apes did. It in no way suggests that we came from apes, because that just doesnt make a whole lot of sense, now does it? Our genome is so much like an ape's because we split from the ape family recently and havent evolved that similar DNA out of our species yet.
We know that things are changing. They've always been changing. They're changing now and they'll still be changing tomorrow.
This may be a hard concept to grasp, but CHANGE = EVOLUTION, thats just the way it works.
Now, back to the religious theory. Whats if at the begining of "time" God (or any other devine power you wish) created these prokaryotic (unicellular) organisms and just let change happen? It sounds a lot more plausable to me than the religious extreme.
Give me your thoughts.
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The religious view is based on faith, which includes the faith that God's word is infallible, and God's word says that he created Man, not prokaryotic organisms. Also, evolution is not "proven" by carbon dating, which is fallible. After 10 half-lifes, there is not enough C14 to accurately date the object. Also, any object which gets its carbon from air cannot be accurately dated.
How sure can humans be that faith is actually truth. In the 14th centrury, people believed that the world was flat. That belief didnt make it true.
And what's to say that "man" had a completely different meaning then than it does now.
There's no way to know this for certain.
The religious view is based on faith, which includes the faith that God's word is infallible, and God's word says that he created Man, not prokaryotic organisms. Also, evolution is not "proven" by carbon dating, which is fallible. After 10 half-lifes, there is not enough C14 to accurately date the object. Also, any object which gets its carbon from air cannot be accurately dated.
Who is to say that Religion and science are not both correct? Yes, science does explain many phenomens, scientists can make anything work. Maybe in the bible "man" is subjective "man" to those who wrote the bible may not be the same as we know "man" today. I definitely believe in a higher power but the bible is man's interpretation of God's word and many things were lost in translation...so if the bible is taken with a grain of salt more things may make sense
You make complete sense. Thak you!