What's up with evolution and religion not being able to co-exist?

Why can't evolution just be the answer to how, not as to why? I know Stan from South Park said that, but that's how I feel, as a Catholic. Parts of the Bible are just stories with morals and points, and a reflection of the Biblical ages. Spirituality and God can co-exist. And we're not monkeys, we just share a common ancestor with monkeys, as the Great Apes.

Your opinons?

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Can't evolution just be the answer to how, not as to why? I know Stan from South Park said that, but thats how I feel, as a Catholic. Parts of the Bible are just stories with morals and points, and a reflection of the Biblical ages. Spirtuatly and God can co-exist. And we're not monkeys, we just share a common ancestor with monkeys, as the Great Apes.

Your opinons?

PecansAreNuts

I tottaly agree with you.

That's what my parents believe. They are Christian but believe in evolution.

If one is to understand the Bible as it was originally meant then one cannot come to believe that the Bible and Evolution can coexist. To believe in Evolution would contradict many aspects of the creation mentioned in the Bible. Only recently is Genesis pre-flood taken allegorically in the way that it is. If one is to be a Bible believing Christian then one cannot compromise what the book says.mindstorm

FUNDY ALERT!

Noah's flood hasn't been taken literally for 200 years, even before Darwin.

If one is to understand the Bible as it was originally meant then one cannot come to believe that the Bible and Evolution can coexist. To believe in Evolution would contradict many aspects of the creation mentioned in the Bible. Only recently is Genesis pre-flood taken allegorically in the way that it is. If one is to be a Bible believing Christian then one cannot compromise what the book says.mindstorm

If one is to understand the Bible as it was originally meant then one cannot come to believe that the Bible and Evolution can coexist. To believe in Evolution would contradict many aspects of the creation mentioned in the Bible. Only recently is Genesis pre-flood taken allegorically in the way that it is. If one is to be a Bible believing Christian then one cannot compromise what the book says.mindstorm

God created the earth billions of years ago, and everything evolved into what we have today.
But what created God!? carrot-cake

Chuck Norris?

God created the earth billions of years ago, and everything evolved into what we have today.
But what created God!? carrot-cake

God created the earth billions of years ago, and everything evolved into what we have today.
But what created God!? carrot-cake

fchan did

[QUOTE="carrot-cake"]God created the earth billions of years ago, and everything evolved into what we have today.
But what created God!? notconspiracy

Depends on which "God" you're talking about.

The Bible isn't a book of science. It was written as an easy to understand guide for living.MKHavoc

[QUOTE="notconspiracy"][QUOTE="carrot-cake"]God created the earth billions of years ago, and everything evolved into what we have today.
But what created God!? Rand_Of_Andor

Depends on which "God" you're talking about.

Actually this thread comes up once a week, so obviously it can.FrostyPhantasm

[QUOTE="FrostyPhantasm"]Actually this thread comes up once a week, so obviously it can.blackngold29

-because people are still too daft to realize that science and religion can co-exist, so one person has to double check every so often....

[QUOTE="mindstorm"]If one is to understand the Bible as it was originally meant then one cannot come to believe that the Bible and Evolution can coexist. To believe in Evolution would contradict many aspects of the creation mentioned in the Bible. Only recently is Genesis pre-flood taken allegorically in the way that it is. If one is to be a Bible believing Christian then one cannot compromise what the book says.notconspiracy

Why is it that when one person who either is a Christian or claim to be a Christian says or does something somehow people take it to mean all people believe that? An example is the Pope, he has officially endorced Evolution. Because he says something doesn't mean I am to believe it. According to him I'm not even a Christian...

[QUOTE="notconspiracy"][QUOTE="mindstorm"]If one is to understand the Bible as it was originally meant then one cannot come to believe that the Bible and Evolution can coexist. To believe in Evolution would contradict many aspects of the creation mentioned in the Bible. Only recently is Genesis pre-flood taken allegorically in the way that it is. If one is to be a Bible believing Christian then one cannot compromise what the book says.mindstorm

Why is it that when one person who either is a Christian or claim to be a Christian says or does something somehow people take it to mean all people believe that? An example is the Pope, he has officially endorced Evolution. Because he says something doesn't mean I am to believe it. According to him I'm not even a Christian...

so, other than it being in the book of Genesis, why do you believe the story about Noah's ark? do you endorse a global flood theory?

[QUOTE="carrot-cake"]God created the earth billions of years ago, and everything evolved into what we have today.
But what created God!? ElArab

fchan did

If one is to understand the Bible as it was originally meant then one cannot come to believe that the Bible and Evolution can coexist. To believe in Evolution would contradict many aspects of the creation mentioned in the Bible. Only recently is Genesis pre-flood taken allegorically in the way that it is. If one is to be a Bible believing Christian then one cannot compromise what the book says.mindstorm

[QUOTE="mindstorm"]

[QUOTE="notconspiracy"][QUOTE="mindstorm"]If one is to understand the Bible as it was originally meant then one cannot come to believe that the Bible and Evolution can coexist. To believe in Evolution would contradict many aspects of the creation mentioned in the Bible. Only recently is Genesis pre-flood taken allegorically in the way that it is. If one is to be a Bible believing Christian then one cannot compromise what the book says.notconspiracy

Why is it that when one person who either is a Christian or claim to be a Christian says or does something somehow people take it to mean all people believe that? An example is the Pope, he has officially endorced Evolution. Because he says something doesn't mean I am to believe it. According to him I'm not even a Christian...

so, other than it being in the book of Genesis, why do you believe the story about Noah's ark? do you endorse a global flood theory?

Yes, I do indeed endorse the global flood theory. As in two of every kind (not species) of animal got on the ark and 7 of some. As in every animal and person outside the ark was distroyed.

[QUOTE="notconspiracy"][QUOTE="mindstorm"]

[QUOTE="notconspiracy"][QUOTE="mindstorm"]If one is to understand the Bible as it was originally meant then one cannot come to believe that the Bible and Evolution can coexist. To believe in Evolution would contradict many aspects of the creation mentioned in the Bible. Only recently is Genesis pre-flood taken allegorically in the way that it is. If one is to be a Bible believing Christian then one cannot compromise what the book says.mindstorm

Why is it that when one person who either is a Christian or claim to be a Christian says or does something somehow people take it to mean all people believe that? An example is the Pope, he has officially endorced Evolution. Because he says something doesn't mean I am to believe it. According to him I'm not even a Christian...

so, other than it being in the book of Genesis, why do you believe the story about Noah's ark? do you endorse a global flood theory?

Yes, I do indeed endorse the global flood theory. As in two of every kind (not species) of animal got on the ark and 7 of some. As in every animal and person outside the ark was distroyed.

Religion and evolution can't really co-exist.

They contradict one another in many ways.

Religion and evolution can't really co-exist.

They contradict one another in many ways.

Tykain

[QUOTE="Tykain"]

Religion and evolution can't really co-exist.

They contradict one another in many ways.

blackngold29

Well you can't believe in evolution while believing in what's said in the bible. they completely contradict each others. Or you only believe in certain things in the bible and not the ones contradicting evolution, but then what's the point to believe in anything said in it ? Surely you would think if some of it is BS then the rest is just as likely to be BS as well.

[QUOTE="blackngold29"][QUOTE="Tykain"]

Religion and evolution can't really co-exist.

They contradict one another in many ways.

Tykain

Well you can't believe in evolution while believing in what's said in the bible. they completely contradict each others. Or you only believe in certain things in the bible and not the ones contradicting evolution, but then what's the point to believe in anything said in it ? Surely you would think if some of it is BS then the rest is just as likely to be BS as well.

[QUOTE="Tykain"][QUOTE="blackngold29"][QUOTE="Tykain"]

Religion and evolution can't really co-exist.

They contradict one another in many ways.

ProudLarry

Well you can't believe in evolution while believing in what's said in the bible. they completely contradict each others. Or you only believe in certain things in the bible and not the ones contradicting evolution, but then what's the point to believe in anything said in it ? Surely you would think if some of it is BS then the rest is just as likely to be BS as well.

Then why believe in a god?

[QUOTE="ProudLarry"][QUOTE="Tykain"][QUOTE="blackngold29"][QUOTE="Tykain"]

Religion and evolution can't really co-exist.

They contradict one another in many ways.

xxDustmanxx

Well you can't believe in evolution while believing in what's said in the bible. they completely contradict each others. Or you only believe in certain things in the bible and not the ones contradicting evolution, but then what's the point to believe in anything said in it ? Surely you would think if some of it is BS then the rest is just as likely to be BS as well.

Then why believe in a god?

[QUOTE="notconspiracy"][QUOTE="mindstorm"]

[QUOTE="notconspiracy"][QUOTE="mindstorm"]If one is to understand the Bible as it was originally meant then one cannot come to believe that the Bible and Evolution can coexist. To believe in Evolution would contradict many aspects of the creation mentioned in the Bible. Only recently is Genesis pre-flood taken allegorically in the way that it is. If one is to be a Bible believing Christian then one cannot compromise what the book says.mindstorm

Why is it that when one person who either is a Christian or claim to be a Christian says or does something somehow people take it to mean all people believe that? An example is the Pope, he has officially endorced Evolution. Because he says something doesn't mean I am to believe it. According to him I'm not even a Christian...

so, other than it being in the book of Genesis, why do you believe the story about Noah's ark? do you endorse a global flood theory?

Yes, I do indeed endorse the global flood theory. As in two of every kind (not species) of animal got on the ark and 7 of some. As in every animal and person outside the ark was distroyed.

==Oh, you're going to hate me by the end of this.

So basically there are billions and billions of species of animals. There are several thousand species of, say, beetle. If this flood occured, say, four to five thousand years ago, then what you're telling me is that the four hundred thousand species of beetle, then, evolved over this time period? That would mean that there are one hundred species of beetle formed every year, which is approximately one species every half month.

This is an absurd evaluation, because if this were true when a woman had a child it would be an entirely new organism. But this is indeed not so.

[QUOTE="blackngold29"][QUOTE="Tykain"]

Religion and evolution can't really co-exist.

They contradict one another in many ways.

Tykain

Well you can't believe in evolution while believing in what's said in the bible. they completely contradict each others. Or you only believe in certain things in the bible and not the ones contradicting evolution, but then what's the point to believe in anything said in it ? Surely you would think if some of it is BS then the rest is just as likely to be BS as well.

[QUOTE="ProudLarry"][QUOTE="Tykain"][QUOTE="blackngold29"][QUOTE="Tykain"]

Religion and evolution can't really co-exist.

They contradict one another in many ways.

xxDustmanxx

Well you can't believe in evolution while believing in what's said in the bible. they completely contradict each others. Or you only believe in certain things in the bible and not the ones contradicting evolution, but then what's the point to believe in anything said in it ? Surely you would think if some of it is BS then the rest is just as likely to be BS as well.

Then why believe in a god?