Evolution is the religion of the atheist! In fact, Stephen Gould, one of the leading proponents of evolution in our generation has stated, explicitly, that “the Theory of Evolution is a metaphysical commitment that we have made and have chosen to follow.” As I’ve stated before, the Theory of Evolution is not a scientific theory but rather a philosophical one. The theory was immediately refuted but kept on for its anti-religious motivation. “The fool has said in his heart that there is no God.”

I believe in much of evolution, and that our God created it. To think that the world (and the universe) is 6,000 years old is what is laughable, frankly. Some point out that “carbon dating is not always right.” Well it is within 20%, so 1,000,000 years can turn into 1,000 years statistically.

@ Anna P: It is impossible to hold the belief in God as well as in macroevolution (referring to the 1 million years possibility) based on this one point:

The presence and of death is an integral mechanism used in macroevolution.

If you are referring to “our God” as the Judaic/Christian God, then you would accept that death entered the world through sin, and that Christ died for the man’s sin. But if death came before sin, the the concept for which Christ died is then removed, and you can no longer believe in what Christ has died for.

Macroevolution defeats the very purpose of Christ, so you may either believe in one or the other, not both.

Lastly, there is this principle where we would cause God to submit under man’s creation of macroevolution and limit God by it. Also note that by qualifying natural/sexual selection, you do not by association qualify macroevolution. These two principles are not mutually exclusive by their very definition. So we cannot infer one result from one subject to another. This is not science but philosophy.

This is a good idea, I think we should question evolution. The theory is devil’s way of removing God from our lives. As Christians, we should let our children know the truth about God as the creator of all things. Let us teach them the truth and they will not depart from it. This is a wake up call

I pray that this will work,unfortunately our government will probably put a stop to students wearing any of these items to school. When my son wore a sweatshirt with Jesus carrying the cross on it to school they made him turn it inside out. It is a shame to say,but there doesn’t seem to be any freedom of religion in schools anymore.

Evolution has basically been disproved at this point, and the scientists who claim to be all about facts and evidence, won’t let it go for some reason. Even non-religious need to be aware that there is alot more evidence for a creator than for Darwin’s theory of evolution. Prominent scientists who have found the truth, not through religion or faith, but through evidence, are being silenced and black-balled. Evolution is basically a non-truth, a theory that has grown into a great big lie. Pray for those in authority who refuse to come to terms with this. And our children should be armed with the truth! There is plenty of argument out there, good empirical knowledge that supports the creation truth. Two good sources are Ben Stein’s documentary, (Expelled, No Intelligence Allowed), and The Truth Project by Focus on the Family. Evolution is a pseudo-science, although the mainstream community thinks otherwise.

God never asked us to check our brains at the door. Evolution as a theory has been evolving since its induction into our knowledge base. It has never been disproven, it has been tested, and new factors and understanding of evolution have been revealed through scientific inquiry. Creationism exists outside of scientific inquiry – it is in opposition to the truths of God revealed in creation. We need not be threatened by the reality that surrounds us.

I do not believe that evolution and creationism are mutually exclusive or that by accepting one you deny the other. Just don’t leave God out of the equation.

“Creationism is opposed to God’s truths” – huh?

Shawn, the problem with you assertion is that you are choosing to interpret Genesis 1 and 2 differently than they are most simply understood. Yet you assume that whoever’s interpretation of scientific facts regarding “God’s truth” revealed in nature is infallible.

I encourage you to think that through. Proposed by a man with an atheist agenda, promoted mostly by godless men known to falsify and distort “truths” to propagate their belief system is now your authority?

To summarize, choose your authorities and interpretations carefully.

Amen Brother Phil. Amazingly the very infidels who are teaching evolution in American schools are doing so in a strong economy that was eastablished by people who taught that God Created. The Dollar they earn after teaching their heresy of evolution is inscribed “IN GOD WE TRUST”. It’s time the chair reserved for Christ in the early US Congress was recalled. Those who do not like that can rellocate to Russia where science is worshipped and evolution is acceptable. Yah?

Anah P, the bible does not say the earth is 6000 years old though. Read Gen 1 vrs 1 again, it says; In the begining God Created the heavens and the earth.” And the earth was without form and void….. From reading that verse alone, you can see it does not say the begining was 6000 years ago. It could have been billions or millions of years ago. Therefore, it is the transformation of (the earth which was covered by water and darkeness) which resulted into our present earth. But even that points to more than 6000 years. Look at this; God transformed the earth in 6000 years before Adam was on earth (Gen 1:2 to 26). Again, that same earth has been in the hands of Adam’s fallen race for another 6000 years. And God rested for a thousand years, whilst what He had created was manifesting. So?

1. How did life originate?
Abiogenesis, not evolution
2. How did the DNA code originate?
Random mutation and natural selection
3. How could mutations – accidental copying mistakes (DNA ‘letters’ exchanged, deleted or added, genes duplicated, chromosome inversions, etc.) – create the huge volumes of information in the DNA of living things?
See #2
4. Why is natural selection, a principle recognized by creationists, taught as ‘evolution,’ as if it explains the origin of the diversity of life?
It is taught as part of the explanation of evolution.
5. How did new biochemical pathways, which involve multiple enzymes working together in sequence, originate?
Starting with simpler enzymes working together in sequence.
6. Living things look like they were designed, so how do evolutionists know that they were not designed?
Living things look like they evolved, and that is scientifically verifiable.
7. How did multi-cellular life originate?
Single cell life evolved.
8. How did sex originate?
Asexual or sexual
9. Why are the (expected) countless millions of transitional fossils missing?
Because it takes just the ‘right’ conditions to make a fossil and then it has to survive millions of years; so any fossil we find has beat the odds against it.
10. How do ‘living fossils’ remain unchanged over supposed hundreds of millions of years, if evolution has changed worms into humans in the same time frame?
See #2
11. How did blind chemistry create mind/intelligence, meaning, altruism and morality?
First, chemistry is not blind; But, life evolves, so some chemical reactions combined with others and thru natural selection, chemistry created mind/intelligence, meaning, altruism and morality.
12. Why is evolutionary ‘just-so’ storytelling tolerated?
I have no idea what this means
13. Where are the scientific breakthroughs due to evolution?
WOW, just WOW. Ah, medicine.
14. Science involves experimenting to figure out how things work; how they operate. Why is evolution, a theory about history, taught as if it is the same as this operational science?
The Theory of Evolution is an all encompassing use of the known scientific principles, such as Math, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geology, etc. The Fact of Evolution is the testable part of the Theory that allows the investigation of random mutation and natural selection.
15. Why is a fundamentally religious idea, a dogmatic belief system that fails to explain the evidence, taught in science classes?
You’re an ASSHAT.

I agree partially.

Although I don’t believe in Jewish/Islamic/Christian creation theory. I do believe a spiritual energy or entity caused the creation of our universe. No creation theory does not eventually end in a leap of faith. At some point when you go back you can’t back any further and it either ends up being “he was” or “it was”.

The book, “Thank God for Evolution” by Michael Dowd can be transformative for those with an open, truth-seeking mind and a willingness to integrate the revelation of the Divine presence in creation with that of the divine presence in faith/scripture sources.

This is simply ignorant. What is happening to this country?

I believe in God. I also believe in evolution. In fact, I don’t just “believe” in evolution, which implies it could be wrong. I am convinced that it is fact. The idea that there isn’t any proof is simply insane.

As science progresses there is more and more proof. Aside from the fossil record, we have genetic research to back up the fact of evolution.

For example, a fetus in utero developes gills. I do not know of any reason for that to occur. The baby doesn’t need them! But if you look at the facts these gills develop and disappear again because of a very ancient legacy. An unexpressed gene becomes active and later inactive before the baby is born. This is proof positive that we came from life in the ocean.

The fact that we have so much genetic material is actually an argument for evolution, not against it. Scientists have found that most of our genetic material is inactive. What that means is that those genes have been “turned off”. That means for example that you may have a gene for a tail, but you won’t develop one because the gene is not activated.

This is proof that our DNA is encoded with features that we no longer possess but came from our ancient forebears.

Genetics also is showing that it really doesn’t require radical mutations to account for all of the changes that make up the diversity of separate species. Again, it has to do with how the genes are expressed. For instance, a small change in genetic expression gives me hair, instead of fur. I don’t need a dramatic change in my DNA to account for that.

This is why scientists can say that we share 99% of the same genetic materials as our cousins, the apes and monkeys.

As far as transitional species in the fossil record, there is a famous example of a dinosaur/bird with feathers fossil.

There is no reason for me to think that all this means there is no God. The creation story in the Bible is meant to be a symbolic tale, not science fact. God gave me a brain, so I could determine the truth for myself, rather than rely on dogma.

Questions 10-15, cracked me up. “if evolution has changed worms into humans in the same time frame?”, this one was the best!

Evolution as a religion? Man, O, Man, these people got to get a grip on reality.

Oh, and PS, what is so wrong with, ‘God said, Let there be light.’ = ‘Big Bang’?

In answer to the “worms and man” confusion, there is no scientific law that says that a particular creature has to evolve to a more complicated form. That is a basic misunderstanding about evolution. Just because it has happened in the past does not guarantee that it will happen again. This does not invalidate the basic facts of evelution, in general life does tend to get more complicated, but it doesn’t have to.

The reason why comes down to a couple of factors. The first is adaptation. If a creature is adapted to its’ environment then there is little reason for it to change. The other factor is separation of populations. Speciation (developing different species) can only happen if the population of one species becomes physically separated from its’comrades. Each adapts to its own environment and develops their own characteristics that will help them survive.

I suggest that before people judge evolution that they should gather all the facts. Creationism is just another way to force religion on school children. It is not science.

Evolution has always been an excuse for those that don’t want to believe there is a God…a living, loving God that is creator of all. This is their cop out. And many of them believe this foolishness. I say, let them believe on and one day they are going to be in for a huge surprise…and by the looks of things [ if things don't change ] its not too far off.

I want to point out that there is no reason to assume that there is not a God just because you believe in evolution. “In Him we live and move and have our being.” God is the Universe and since we live in the Universe and are one with it, I believe that evolution is a Divine process. I suppose that some people may regard me as a heritic but I go where the evidence is. I believe that unless you question your faith (any kind not just Christian) then it was never yours in the first place. You may go full circle and arrive at the same place as before but at least you have chosen your path rather than have it dictated to you.

Yes, Yes, Yes; Tell them, So the Scientist comes to God and says, I can Make Life.’ God responds,” Let’s see.” So the Scientist picks up a fist full of dirt and goes to his test tube.” God responds, “Use your own dirt, I made that!” Scientists know there had to be something… before there was something else… guess what? It is God.

It’s amazing to watch this creationism movement take shape and pervade these pages, which I used to enjoy quite a lot. Yes, I believe in God and evolution. I’ve said it. Now watch an army of small minded, ignorant religious zealots attack my beliefs as not being possible. They can say what they want: there are sceintists and theologists elsewhere who fail in neither intellect, nor education nor imagination who are as inspiring as this website used to be.

I do so love to see my scientifically minded friends jump in here. I’m a scientist AND a Christian. I have no problem with evolution and neither does the vast majority of Christendom. It’s only the fundamentalist zealots that seem to have this issue on this side. I’ve often wondered if it’s just easier for them to believe what they were told by someone rather than educate themselves.

There are fundamentalist zealots on the other side as well. They refuse to admit that science does in fact point to God as creator. For those who haven’t read it, “The Theory of Everything” by Stephen Hawking runs right up to God but he stubbornly refused to admit it. The book is still a great read because anyone who is intellectually honest will admit the truth of the flawless science involved. It’s pretty cool when physics proves God.

With all due respect to the writers and the campaign, evolution does not necessarily include the random origination design that you all are assuming it does. I am a strong believer and am firmly convinced that Jesus Christ is my savior and my God. I am also a scientist that sees the genius in the plan that God put into place as He created an Earth that grows and adapts on its own… fixing itself to be more efficent, better suited for survival. You can easily believe in Divine creation and control and still know that evolution is good science.

I think that anyone, including students, have the right to question the “evolution theory.” GOD CREATED THIS WORLD. It says so in the Bible and if people don’t believe this, I think that they should buy a copy of The Bible and read it for themselves. It is there in black and white. I, myself, do not believe in the “evolution theory” and I question anyone who does.

The Theory of Everything does not end at the point where evidence establishes a supernatural entity that accounts for all things presently not known. It ends, instead, at the point where evidence supporting valid conclusions ends, and pure imaginative speculation begins.

An earlier comment posits: ‘Although I don’t believe in Jewish/Islamic/Christian creation theory. I do believe a spiritual energy or entity caused the creation of our universe. No creation theory does not eventually end in a leap of faith. At some point when you go back you can’t back any further and it either ends up being “he was” or “it was”.’

I will accept this writer’s claim for a he or it when evidence is available that verifies the claim.

Until that evidence is presented, the only sensible statement possible is that when you can’t go back any further than conclusions supported by testable evidence, it is time to recognize that “I don’t know” is the only right answer. In this instance, since any other answer is just a WAG (wild ass guess), ‘I don’t know’ is a very fine answer indeed.

ok. first of all. the ‘fact of evolution’ is still and will continue to be the “Theory of Evolution” since it has never been SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN to the SATISFACTION of the SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE.
Second. For GOD a day is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as a day and a mans lifetime is but the blink of an eye.
a human being can blink 10 times in one second. a human lifetime in the old days (methuzelah was over 900 years old when he died) was set to a period of 120 years By GOD according to scripture. so if we have 1440 minutes in one of our days and 60 seconds in a minute we get 86,400 seconds.
multiply that by 10 for 10 blinks per second and 120 for the number of years set in scripture and for us One Day for GOD could be anywhere from 24 hours to 103,680,000 years. so since science claims that the world is over 300 million years old and the universe is over 300 billion i see nothing in scripture to refute this claim. nor do i see science ‘proving GOD wrong’ in this case either.

Evolution is how this world came to be. It is not against Christian belief and to think so implies a lack of intelligence. Making students look stupid is not the way to advance beliefs of any kind.