Questions tagged [evolution]
the theory explaining how lifeforms develop from simpler, different lifeforms
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How does a Christian soul fit in with known facts? [closed]
We know from many sources of evidence that life started more than 4 billion years ago, and over the aeons evolution produced a huge range of different creatures. We also know that modern humans ...
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Are there any Christian creationist books that has evidence to prove all transitory fossils to be fake or hoax?
Are there any Christian creationist books that has evidence to prove all transitory fossils to be fake or hoax?
Like archaepthor fraud, piltdown man hoax , there are many frauds done to prove ...
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Are we all descendants of Noah and his sons?
If the Bible story of the great flood is true, then unless the flood did not kill all human and animal life other than the occupants of the ark, is it Christian belief that all human cultures of the ...
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How can we reconcile the similarities between humans and animals?
If only humans are "created in His own image" (Genesis 1:27), then why are we so close in DNA to primates - why have we proved that dogs and primates have a theory of mind - among other ...
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Why do many Christians oppose the evolution theory?
A question from an atheist here.
Many Christians seem to oppose Darwin's evolution theory and specifically the notion that man evolved from apes. You see this in the press, you see this in politics, I ...
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How do Creationists interpret the faculty of color perception in living beings?
Human beings are trichromats meaning that they have three color receptors in the eye which enable them to see all seven colours of sunlight. Animals are dichromats meaning that they have only two ...
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Does any Christian denomination teach Genesis 3 as a description of human evolution from animals?
One could teach Genesis 3 as a description of human evolution from animals along the following lines:
Adam and Eve eating the fruit in Genesis 3:7 makes their eyes open and lets them know good and ...
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How do Christians holding some role of evolution defend against YEC that the many deaths required is adding blemish to God's character?
There are several ways that Christians have tried to reconcile evolution with the Biblical narrative of creation. Theistic evolution is one option. Another is C.S. Lewis's way of how while the ...
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Does the free will rebuttal to the problem of evil still work for those who believe in old earth/evolution?
When asked "If there is an omnipotent and good God, why is there suffering in the world?", the most common response Christians give is something along the lines of "Suffering is a ...
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Does Romans 1:18-25 pose a challenge to Christians who believe in the Theory of Evolution?
Romans 1:18-24 sounds like an argument from Intelligent Design to me:
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness ...
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Did any Church Fathers specifically reject Darwinian Evolution?
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What is undisputed is that the Fathers left no room for evolution.
Now, the Church Fathers for the most part believed that Earth was Created some time between about 3,...
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Did any Church Fathers specifically reject Common Descent?
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What is undisputed is that the Fathers left no room for evolution.
I'm aware that the Church Fathers for the most part believed that Earth was Created some time ...
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Have any Protestant Biologists demonstrated through their own research that Evolution is untenable?
Q: Have any Protestant Biologists who don’t believe in evolution posted real research papers showing how evolution is not likely or possible?
I think I heard a famous atheist say creation and ...
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Does the Origin of Religious Beliefs from Evolution cast doubt on Christian belief?
Evolutionism claims that religious beliefs result from their ability to give us a cooperative ability to survive. This, an Evolutionist would argue, would imply that religion comes into existence, not ...
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Did Neanderthals have a soul? From when do people exists/have soul? [closed]
Does the church agree with some kind of Darwin evolution and big bang theory? If so, from when does human exists? If we think of human as we have soul, did Neanderthals had one? Was it like this ...
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How do Christians who believe in evolution understand Original Sin?
As I understand, many Christians nowadays accept evolution. There are such Christians in most major denominations and inside these denominations exist different traditions and groups of believers, so ...
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How does the Tree of Life fit in Evolutionary Creationism
I understand how the creation narrative in Genesis can be interpreted to fit within an Evolutionary Creation perspective. In such a paradigm God used Evolution to beautifully create the biodiversity ...
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What proportion of global Christians belong to denominations that accept evolution?
I would like to know what percentage of Christians globally belong to denominations which accept evolution of humanity by natural selection (including "theistic evolution"). I can try to calculate ...
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How can the existence of other species of the genus Homo be reconciled with Christian belief in the uniqueness of humankind? (Catholic perspective)
Close relatives of Homo Sapiens are known to have existed in relatively recent times. Neanderthals are one example. They weren't mere brutes, as archaeological research has shown, but they weren't ...
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What are some scholarly biblical arguments for theistic evolution?
As I have done my research on theistic evolution, which is the theory that God created the earth and everything in it but let the process of evolution happen on its own.
Definition of Evolution:
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Does the Roman Catholic Church embrace theistic evolution?
In 1996, Pope John Paul II gave a speech in a plenary assembly at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, documented here. It seems he embraced a version of Theistic Evolution (sometimes called Guided ...
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How is theistic evolution and the fall of man compatible? [duplicate]
All scientific evidence suggests evolution did happen, or something very similar. Of course, every theory has its flaws, including evolution, but how is the fall of man conpatible with evolution? Even ...
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Is there any basis in Catholic theology or in the writings of major Catholic theologians for the belief that snakes used to have legs?
Catholicism has pretty much stated that the Genesis creation account is allegorical. The serpent talking to Eve was not an actual event, but a story.
Yet I see and hear often from Christians the ...
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According to Christians that believe in Evolution, when did people start getting Souls? [duplicate]
Let me start by saying I personally believe in evolution and the science of evolution. I believe Genesis is a description of this in a way that was able to be understood at the time it was written, ...
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How do creationists explain some recent hominid discoveries
Recent discoveries of more than 15 complete fossilised skeletons of a newly defined early human designated Homo naledi are yet to be dated, but scientists say their primitive features, small brains ...
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Creation vs Evolution [duplicate]
Are the belief in creation and the theory of evolution mutually exclusive? Does holding of one necessarily mean not holding the other? If not please share some examples.
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What is the position of the United Methodist Church on creationism and evolution
Reverend Paul Kottke, of the United Methodist Church, has preached that Christian faith and science, including Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, are not incompatible. This seems to be in accord ...
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What is the position of the Episcopal Church on the evolution of man?
Pope Francis, in a speech given at a Pontifical Academy of Sciences, has declared his support of evolution as the scientific explanation of the origin of man. Following on the statements of his recent ...
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What is the Catholic Church's position on the scientific theory of evolution?
Understanding the scientific [Biological] theory of evolution simply as descent [from a common ancestor] with modification through Darwin's proposed mechanism of natural selection, starting from the ...
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Are the theories of Evolution and the Big Bang now binding to Catholics and to be held as true?
On Monday, October 27, 2014, addressing the Pontifical Academy of Sciences , Pope Francis is reported to have said, 'the Big Bang, which nowadays is posited as the origin of the world, does not ...
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How does the Catholic Church reconcile evolution with original sin?
According to Catholic doctrine:
all men inherit ancestral sin from Adam;
God descended upon Earth as the Son in order to free mankind from this sin, was crucified, died etc.
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Creation Ex Nihilo? [closed]
I have been wondering how can God create matter and energy out of nothing when nothing is simply nothing. Unless God simply created matter and energy when nothing else other than Himself existed. When ...
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What do Jehovah's Witnesses believe about evolution?
From Do Jehovah’s Witnesses Believe in Creationism? on jw.org:
No. Jehovah’s Witnesses do believe that God created everything. But we do not agree with creationism. Why not? Because a number of ...
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Where did the trait in man come from which causes him to deny the superiority of God?
Since man was created in the image of God, which I consider to be that God created man with those traits, common to God himself. The power to reason, and so on.
In that light I find it difficult to ...
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Is it Christian Doctrine to say that macroevolution is not the same as microevolution?
We read in Genesis that the world was created in seven days.
This article states:
Contrary to claims by creationists, macro and microevolution describe fundamentally identical processes on ...
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Can the ancestral sin doctrine (and Paul's epistles) survive without a single breeding pair?
The necessity of salvation in Christian doctrine seems to be inextricably linked to the view that the entirety of human nature somehow springs from the gametes (and perhaps education) of a single ...
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Is there an explanation for pre-humans from a biblical point of view? [closed]
Does the bible/ Christians / the church (any church) say anything about pre-humans, not just neanderthals, but all the other kinds of pre-humans?
Points to consider.
I read in a National Geographic ...
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How do creationists explain the genetic diversity of animals after Noah's Ark?
One of the comments on How did all the animals fit into Noah's ark? asked "How does one propose to produce the various species/sub-species simply from 'some sort of cat', after the fact?" This was ...
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Is it correct to say "any effort using scientific way to prove or disprove God is in vain"?
Am I right in saying that we can never use science to find the physical existence of God, neither could we disprove that?
I am in academic, I am surrounded by so many "science-is-the-ultimate-answer" ...
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In Theistic Evolution, when did the alleged evolutionary animal/ape/man become accountable for his sins?
One answer to this previous question asks,
One of the problems I have with theistic evolution is: when did this alleged evolutinary animal/ape/man become accountable for his sins? [sic]
It would ...
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How does Christianity respond to scientific theory that Man originated through evolution? [closed]
Science claims that men originated through evolution. Christianity claims that men originated from Adam and Eves.
How Christianity respond the claims of modern science?
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What is the Biblical evidence against the day-age theory?
As many of you probably know, the day-age theory is an attempt to reconcile creation and evolution, by turning the days mentioned in Genesis into long periods of time. What is the biblical evidence ...
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Christian view on chimeras [closed]
Motivated by the question What are the theological implications/problems with theistic evolution?, consider that Jasher 4:18 seems to imply that there is something wrong with the mixing of animal ...
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Is there biblical evidence of "cavemen"? [closed]
Do old earth Christians believe that there were cavemen in early times? This is not to say people who lived in caves but more as what is pictured in early evolution.
I hope I'm wording this correctly ...
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How do Creationist Christians respond to the evidence for Evolution? [closed]
This is a question for people who believe in the creation.
One point considered a serious proof of evolution is the scientific method of carbon dating. As per this method, humans haven't existed from ...
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Why and how do Creationists agree with microevolution but disagree with the idea of macroevolution [closed]
We had the question about the speed of light. But why do Creationists agree with microevolution and disagree with the idea of macroevolution at the same time?
Macroevolution is thought of as the ...
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How do theistic evolutionists view the Fall of Man?
I haven't really decided what to think about the creation of the world. I'm very familiar with the concept of evolution, scientifically, and if I didn't believe in God I'd certainly believe in ...
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What is theistic evolution?
Theistic evolution sounds similar to Old Earth Creationism. Both ideas start with the premise that God created. After this, I've heard tale of wars fought between the two camps. What is the gist of ...
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What are the common arguments against theistic evolution? [closed]
What are the common arguments from Christians against the idea that God used evolution to create Earth over millions of years? This is not a place to argue. I'm interested in a rundown of the common ...
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Intelligent design - Creationism by a different name? [closed]
I've heard that many believe that intelligent design is creationism by a different name.
However, if my understanding of intelligent design is correct, it does not deny the the big bang or evolution ...
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