+512 It's not unacceptable to be pro-evolution and a creationist at the same time. You can believe that God created organisms, but they evolved over time to better fit their environment once it changed, amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

" You can believe that God created organisms, but they evolved over time to better fit their environment once it changed" Isn't that being pro evolution and creationist at the same time?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

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by Anonymous 13 years ago

Oops I thought he said it WAS unnaceptable, my bad I interpreted it wrong.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Good theory.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

So...you don't believe the Bible?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

According to my religious father, not believing in the Old Testament isn't a bad thing. A lot of that part of the Bible is outdated. My dad doesn't believe Noah's Arc existed, but he still claims to be Catholic.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Catholics don't believe in Noah's Arc or the Creation story.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Not necessarily...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Well I'm talking about the Church as a whole. They don't take either story literally, and eventhough they don't teach the Big Bang theory as fact, they definately don't rule out the possiblity

by Anonymous 13 years ago

See, I don't know how I feel about people who believe this. The Bible says it is God word and it is to be taken literally, however, I'm not sure I have came across anywhere in the Bible that says, "if you don't take it literal you won't go to heaven." However, I feel like if you really are a Christian, then you would know it is literal. So, I guess this is truly debatable.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

IDWIW

by Anonymous 13 years ago

aiiiight.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I personally don't think that the bible is 100% true. I mean, God gave us free will. Would he take that away from us for a little bit so that he can put what he wants in the bible? I personally don't think that he would...It seems almost like a violation of that persons rights to me for him to have taken it away...did that make sense?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Jesus believes in the Old Testament. :)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

the bible doesn't say that nothing ever evolved....

by Anonymous 13 years ago

OP is trying to infer a Big Bang type ordeal here though, which obviously contradicts God creating the earth in seven days.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

that's not what it sounds like at all. OP says "God created organisms, but they evolved over time to fit their environment".... like the way they got food or the climate forced them to change, so if it gets colder, the animals with thicker coats live and reproduce and they evolve. If it is a Big Bang ordeal, then yeah, although I've heard the "metaphor" theory. I have no idea what a metaphor about creation would be referring to, though, or why God wouldn't just tell us straight out.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Maybe I jumped to quickly to conclusions, but yeah, survival of the fittest happens of course.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yes. Not, God made all these bugs, and then they turned out to be people and monkeys and whales and cats, etc.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

you better hope scrantoncity doesn't see this or else there will be a 300 comment argument.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

So in other words, IT'S ACCEPTABLE. Other than, not unacceptable.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I believe in creation and microevolution. In other words I believe in different birds evolving from one bird not whales to cows.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Way to be

by Anonymous 13 years ago

This is completely what I believe :)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

what i've been trying to explain to people since the beginning of the Goddamn creation lol.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yes! this is what i believe, also.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

haha...it's really funny when you say something like, "oh, well such and such a bird's beak evolved because of the change in food," in a debate and they freak out about how evolution doesn't exist and you're a heretic and God will strike you down....

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It comes down to this: ultimately God is in charge here, we're just getting in petty fights about his methods. Why is it wrong for God to take the slow way, and leave behind scientific evidence? Maybe he's trying to make it easier on our suspicious, cynical postmodern minds.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

God can do anything right? Why can't he create the world and create an organism that eventually changes overtime?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Another thing about the Old (and some of the New) Testament is that the authors took some things the wrong way. God may have "told" them something that was meant to be good, but they took it as something bad.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Thank you for saying this. It needed to be said.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

No. Assuming you're talking about the christian god, you can not believe in the bible and evoultion. You can't have it both ways.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I know people who believe in God and believe that evolution may be a work of God Himself.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Exactly, I believe in natural selection but not the entire theory of evolution

by Anonymous 13 years ago