Evolution: is it necessary to know how life ultimately began in order to study and debate the evidence that evolution has since occurred? [Spirituality & Religion]
If you think it is, why do you think so? Can you explain that reasoning for me?
I ask because i've encountered a creationist's position that the evidence for evolution can be ignored if we don't know how life began. I point out that the theory of gravitation still allows us to study the interactions of matter without knowing how it came to be but this apt comparison appears to be ignored.
Since i've received no explanation from the parties involved, i'm coming to YOU! So. Thoughts?馃檪
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If one does not believe in evolution due to the Scriptures, let him or her ponder over them. God created every single living creature, but nowhere that it say that the living creatures never changed. Appealing to science and logic here is futile.
@Boallods about whether evolution is "real" the bibke puts like 5 minutes of effort into saying God made everything. Its doesnt say how or why ir anything. He came, he did it, in this order.
The end.
It even says in the bible dont pointless argue....
I agree the creation narrative doesn't take up much space in the Scripture.
Honestly, if some Christians didn't apply the Bible where it has nothing to say, I myself wouldn't care. But if you come to me with: "Evolution is a Satanic teaching, and here's why: *reads first three chapters of Genesis*" than we have a problem. The Scripture DOES NOT reject evolution. Anyone who claims otherwise is abusing God's word. That's heresy.
@Boallods You make sense. It doesn't tell us the mechanism of how God made things, just that he did. When someone tells me they made a cake they don't tell me the recipe as a way of describing it. Making is the act. Evolution COULD be a mechanism of that making.
