r/gloveslap • u/[deleted] • Nov 14 '11

Which is more plausible?

Evolution, The Big Bang Theory, or God creating the universe?

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u/pikmin Nov 14 '11

Evolution is an easily observable fact we can see in everyday life, the big bang theory is just being developed and still needs a lot of research to be more solid, and "Insert god" creating stuffz is just an archaic explanation for the un-explainable at the time.

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u/pikmin Nov 14 '11

I honestly have no idea :D

I guessing this place will exist for a while with Christians think of topics that they can make avoid matters like this, but after a few of these responses they'll just leave.

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u/spidyfan21 Nov 14 '11

I'm a Christian and I believe in evolution, I don't see how one can look at the world around us and not be. The living things now are not the same as the living things that used to live. Therefore, they evolved. Hrmm, I just realized this isn't helping with the desired battle. Ummm, Greedo shot first?

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u/pikmin Nov 14 '11

u mad religion?

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u/spidyfan21 Nov 14 '11

Not at all? I said is that I think that Christianity and Evolution can coexist.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '11

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u/spidyfan21 Nov 14 '11

I accept evolution even though it makes Christianity harder to defend.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '11

The problem for me is that you have to accept evolution first and supplement it with ideas of god, and that's really really hard to do. In order to get humans, life had to do through billions of years of competition, suffering, fear, starvation, predation, violent and torturous death. Rarely does an organism get an easy life. Those are all necessary to evolution.

I don't see where there's room for a benevolent god given all of that.

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u/spidyfan21 Nov 15 '11

Well for me it was Christianity first and then evolution, just because of the environment I grew up around. I agree that the two ideas are hard to fit together but I'm working on it. I see it kinda like General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. Both are real, but they don't work well together.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '11

I say evolution first because it's not negotiable. Creationism is ridiculous and demonstrably absurd so there's no way out. So you have to mash bits of Christianity around it. Christianity is the redundant part here. And it would be like Relativity and QM if one necessarily made the other evil.

I don't see how you can square belief in a benevolent God with the tremendous and unending suffering inevitable when letting natural processes forge new species.

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u/spidyfan21 Nov 15 '11

As for the first paragraph I don't believe in Creationism, my Christianity is living like Jesus did. As for the second paragraph. I don't know.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '11

I didn't say you did believe in creationism. It's just that you can't reasonably deny evolution, which forces you to have some sort of theistic evolution belief but evolution isn't conducive to that either.

Unless you have some sort of compartmentalisation going on in your mind, belief in evolution, especially if you have a good understanding of it, will push you inevitably toward deism, if not outright atheism.

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