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I'd like to poll those who post to Christianity to see where you stand on this issue.
I intentionally left out a choice of Neither or a Combination of the two as irrelevant to my purpose.
Since the poll doesn't provide for my position I can't participate in it.
I'm not going to use the term 'Creationism' since that is a theological view which presents an either/or scenario in which if God created the universe then evolution can't be true, and vice versa.
But in my view there need be no conflict between God being the Creator of the universe and the function of evolution. I think it's pretty evident that evolution, both below and above the species level takes place.
I believe in the process of evolution. However, to assume that no supreme intelligence exists beyond that which human scientists or mankind can describe is a difficult pill to swallow. It allows no room for an intelligent purpose, its guidance, design or final cause. I would call that arrogance - having or revealing an exaggerated sense of one's own importance or abilities; egotism.
Therefore, I could not vote with only two choices, it's not one, or the other.
I believe in the process of evolution. However, to assume that no supreme intelligence exists beyond that which human scientists or mankind can describe is a difficult pill to swallow. It allows no room for an intelligent purpose, its guidance, design or final cause. I would call that arrogance - having or revealing an exaggerated sense of one's own importance or abilities; egotism.
Therefore, I could not vote with only two choices, it's not one, or the other.
That's exactly what I think so I couldn't vote either
God is the creator and God says He is , so who are going to believe the living God or the scientist who is dead .... See God has the knowledge to live for eternity , where the scientist don`t know how to life for eternity ....
I am one of the two who so far who voted for Creationism, but a definition would be helpful. All Christians are "Creationists" in the sense of believing that God created the universe. Most, but certainly not all, believe that God created humans directly, without an evolutionary process. Ditto for me on both points. But I have been in fairly heated debates only to discover that we had been talking past each other, that what many people understand by Creationism is in fact Young Earth Creationism, which most Christians do not accept and do not believe is mandated by anything in the Bible.
For the record, I am not uneducated about science and I am far from uneducated about evolution. The statement "evolution is as true as gravity" is certainly true about microevolution. Macroevolution, no. The debate rages, and macroevolutionary theory itself is constantly evolving to keep pace with cracks in the edifice. I mean, come on - anyone who actually is fully informed knows that legions of scientists who are not associated with the Intelligent Design movement are growing increasingly nervous that the current paradigm is badly flawed and that 14 billion years is not even close to enough time to account for what has supposedly occurred through evolution. I'm not going to enter into this bottomless cesspool of a debate, but "evolution is as true as gravity" is one of those bumper-sticker truisms that New Atheists and Christians both love but that will not withstand close scrutiny.
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