Why can't evolution and creationism work together?

Question

Whenever I see Evolution vs Creationism debates why can't the two work together like: when god created living creatures on the Earth what if he decided to create better life from the ones that he made before?

Answer 1

Most Christians outside the US believe that God began evolution as very few educated Westerners can deny evolution but here we come up against Occam's razor. This states that when there are two possible explanation, the simpler of the two is to be assumed more likely. Here are the two options.

1) An incredibly dense piece of matter expanded rapidly and

chaotically and stuff crashed into each other until finally forming

planets and stars which each had a gravitational pull causing planets

to orbit stars. On one planet there was much of a very common

substance found in space - water and this planet orbitted a small

star. This combination of an energy source and water provided the

ideal environment for life to form and then evolve into many different

species depending on the different environments in which they lived.

2) An all powerful, omniscient, omnipotent being appeared perfectly

formed from absolutely nowhere and created everything with his speech

which then evolved.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Evolution and creationism do work together for millions of people.



That is, if a person believes in a supreme being but does not believe in a very specific creation story like the one in the Torah then they can accept that their god created the universe in some form or another and "let it go" after that point and allowed evolution to create every life form we see now.



What evolution does, however, is challenge the literal creation story in the Torah. Perhaps, challenge is far to mild. Evolution makes the literal creation story of the creation of the world in six days and the creation of Adam and Eve as the first humans sound ridiculous.



Another point that may never enter the mind of a person who believes the Torah, is that if evolution is true and it certainly seems true, human beings have been around for over 3,000,000 years and since we know the Torah was only written 2,700 years ago why did God ignore his people for 2,997,300 years?

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Why can't evolution and creationism work together?

Whenever I see Evolution vs Creationism debates why can't the two work together like: when god created living creatures on the Earth what if he decided to create better life from the ones that he made before?

Answer 5

Because evolution is an observed fact, and there's no evidence of any kind for "creationism" -- in fact, the vast majority of "creationist" claims are shown false by more than ample evidence.



They can't "work" together because evolution works and creationism doesn't. "What if" doesn't cut it in the real world, unless there's evidence to SHOW something correct, it's not correct. That's creationism.



Peace.

Answer 6

Those of us who don't believe in gods obviously have no use for the god part, but we don't make up a huge chunk of the population.



The rest of it is a huge bickering match between literal Bible people and metaphorical Bible people. Some people think they can read the Bible in English and they should follow it word-for-word. Others feel it's more of an abstract guide. You're absolutely right; you can have your science and have your gods too. Some people feel like you have to choose.



Unfortunately, the choosers have bullied otherwise normal, educated people into choosing the literal Bible. Some loudmouthed evangelicals have declared that you're either a YEC or you hate Jesus. Why does anyone listen to those jerks?

Answer 7

There is theistic evolution. To me, it's erroneous because there is no evidence for intelligent design. It is at its very best, a hypothesis... one that begs the question. An insertion of the god of the gaps. Or trying to incorporate faith-based beliefs into a scientific process. I could just as easily conclude that Morton the alien flea set evolution in motion. There is no evidence suggesting evolution has to be guided by intelligent design, it is based on probability and natural process. Just as the formation of crystals look "designed" to our human perception but are naturally occurring. Invoking a supernatural force, is not science. If one can prove that Morton actually exists, then we can move into the next step of discovering if he did indeed design the diversity of species through means of the evolutionary process. Until then, any mythological creature could be inserted as the designer of the diversity of species; Henry the Unicorn saw that the Universe he designed was divine and thus, wanted to share it's divinity with other living organisms. So he shot a rainbow out of his behind, which magically caused living cells that then divided into more complex living cells that over time became the diversity of species we see today.



I do not believe in gods, so I accept the evidence we have for natural evolution. But there is indeed, those who believe in theistic evolution or "god-guided".

Answer 8

Evolution is a fact. Creationism is fiction.

But God may be real, so it is possible to follow a christianity, and even to be a christian religious leader while being intelligent enough to realise that not every word of the Bible is to be taken literally.

Therefore evolution and religion can work together.

Answer 9

They can to a point. But what you will find missing in the theory of evolution is how life actually began. No one agrees to how the moment of creation happened. The second thing is that millions of fossils of the "in between" animals are missing. For example... if ape came from lizards over a period of millions of years.... then there should be millions upon millions of fossils of the in between stages. As it is they only have fossils of species withing species. You are correct in noticing the changes in types of animals within the species. Such as a dog breeding with a different dog. That is hardly evolution. The dogs all stay withing the same species. We as humans who have been in existence for several thousand years in intelligent form have yet to actually witness a development of a new species of animal. Nor have intelligent humans been able to recreate the beginning of life. Should be easy due to the science we now have and the ability to recreate environments. All we are talking about is producing one new single celled animal out of the elements that would have been present at creation.



In the end evolution takes more faith than the fact that it was created by intelligent design.

Answer 10

Because the two are mutually exclusive descriptions of the natural world.



Plus I don't know of anyone who researches evolution who would ever want, much less need, the help of a creationist. That'd be like trying to give an astrophysicist a gerbil to help with the calculations.

Answer 11

A lot of people think God included evolution in his model for creation. I'm one of them.

Answer 12

Because they can't. Evolution says we evolved from nothing, Creationism and just pure logic says we were created by a Divine Being in his image (Which is true).

Answer 13

Because Evolutionists don't want to, or more to the point; they are ideologically bound to reject Creationism. Creationists, on the other hand, can more readily accept Evolution, by attributing it to God's Work.

Answer 14

Creation signifies a design process involving some intelligent being.

Evolution does not signifies a design process but a random process which undergoes natural selection.

So these theories are not compatible.



If creation is true then you must believe that there exist a supernatural being.

If evolution is true then you must believe that there exist supernatural mathematics.

So in this sense they are compatible. They both believe in the supernatural.

Answer 15

The great majority of creationists suffer from two problems -- (1) they don't have the knowledge to understand evolution; (2) they're too lazy to learn

Answer 16

Evolution is a FACT of nature, the THEORY explains HOW it happens



Creationism is a religious creation story. And has no evidence no support and no willingness to even research itself.



Creationism is "I say so so it is so"

Evolution is "So all these birds who look different.. do share allot in common. Is there a common ancestor?

Answer 17

Light (God's creation) and darkness (lies of evolution) have no partnership.



God's original design was perfect with no need to "evolve".

Answer 18

because creationism relies upon the bible for it's basis. there is a great deal of misundestanding of what the bible actually says about creation however.



if those who wish to follow the things science believes concerning our creation were to read the actual accounts of creation in the bible, they might find that there are many things which science believes which are actually also scriptural fact.



for instance, science believes that the first life forms came out of the water. that is actually true. in genesis 1: 20, God commanded the waters to bring forth life. and so every being in the water and all birds were brought forth out of the water, according to the scriptures.



science believes that man and animals share dna in common. that is true. but it is not because man is evolved from animals. it is because man and animals were both created by God out of the same dust of the earth. (genesis 2:7 and 19) since man and animals were both created by the same Creator out of the same material, it stands to reason we would share dna together.



prior to the great flood of noah, the bible tells us that the earth was at that time all one large land mass. it was not seperated into the various continents until years after the flood. so with the flood and the seperating of the landmass into various continents and islands...those two catastrophic events probably caused enough upheaval in the earth to destroy dinosaurs, and to cause carbon and rock formations to alter in such a way as to make them seem much older than they are which causes science to misinterpret what it sees when it studies the earth.

Answer 19

Evolution tries to be scientific whereas creationism opposite of scientific and follows a strict guideline like god created Adam and eve no variations or twisting it around to say he created Adam and eve because he created evolution



Personally I believe your statement I believe god guided us through evolution to create a better us from existing life

Answer 20

One's based science and evidence, the other's based on an old book written by ancient cultures who were trying to make sense of the world called the "origin of species".

Answer 21

God started with unicellular life forms who HADN'T come about by abiogenesis (which HAS been proven to exist), then he started evolution and monitored it daily, and Adam and Eve never existed. Nah, they wouldn't like that.

Answer 22

Why can't Chemistry and Alchemy work together,because only one of them exists

Answer 23

Even evolution does not address the creation of the first living thing.



Abiogenesis claims living self-progating cells came from in-animate matter.

Answer 24

One is based on evidence and investigation. The other is made up. They are diametrically opposed. That is why they can't work together.

Answer 25

Because creationists and evolutionists are both very very stubborn, and assume one must be right and one must be wrong. Rarely however, you find people like me and my brother, who accept evolution and Christianity. That is all I can say.

Answer 26

Because creationism is false. It has nothing to offer in the search for truth.

Answer 27

because evolution dismisses the infallibility of God and we can't have a flawed God.

Answer 28

of course thats possible. God created everything and everything runs its course. Only a complete idiot would argue with that.

Answer 29

Same reason why fire and water do not work together.

Answer 30

It is called intelligent design

Answer 31

because Evolution is Science and Creationism is not

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gEfNrUoU7c&feature=youtu.be

Answer 32

Because they are nearly the exact opposite of each other....



eg. Would fire go with water?

Answer 33

because one is true and the other isn't

Answer 34

Because one is science and the other is mythology.

Answer 35

Because of the existence of the bible for creationists, and the neantherthal for the evolutionist.

Answer 36

they contradict each other......