Friend

Is it possible for the Theory of Evolution and the Story of Creation to be combined/or used to explain each other?

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Jack the Bodiless

Which "Story of Creation"?

If you mean the one in Genesis: I'd say the answer is "no".

...Except in a very vague and general sense. Genesis has a (short) timeline of the development of life, culminating in humans. But that's where the resemblance ends.

MortalWombat

Which one in Genesis?

pz

Well, the timeline is also incorrect in its order, and seriously compressed temporally. It's sorely deficient in detail, and what details it gives are wrong. Evolution also does not claim that the process culminates in humans, either -- if anything, we're an obscure little sidebranch of a relatively unsuccessful lineage, with no sure promise of significant longevity.

I'd say there's pretty much no resemblance at all.

Oolon Colluphid

Neither

DT

Tom Sawyer

If by the Story of Creation, if you mean the story of how the universe came about with no outside intervention and life evolved on it's own through totally naturalistic means, then yes, the two can be combined.

If you mean the African tribal story of how the world was created from the dung of ants, or any similar bunk made up by one random ancient tribe or another, then no.

Hawkingfan

No, I don't think so. I'm not exactly sure in what way you mean, but in my opinion, the two contradict each other (not to mention the two versions of Creation in the Bible contradict each other as well). Evolution implies that we (along with modern day apes) evolved from a lower order of primates that is no longer on this earth. Creationism says that God created man (and the earth for that matter) in its present form. Besides, there are other scientific problems with the story of creation--plants grow before there is sunlight, there is night and day and light and dark without the sun and moon, water was created before land was created, light from the stars reached the earth simultaneously, there is no mention of dinosaurs, we can eat all plants with seeds, etc. The list goes on.

scigirl

Hello Friend,

You might want to check out Kathleen Hunt's <a href="http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-transitional.html" target="_blank">Transitional Vertebrate Fossils FAQ</a>.

On the <a href="http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-transitional/part2c.html#conc" target="_blank">last page</a>, she discusses which beliefs can be reconciled with the data.

Basically, neither old- and young-earth special creation are supported by the fossil record. Theistic evolution - where God used evolution to guide the creation of species - is fine.

Hope that helps,

scigirl

HomelessMrBob

Just a quick response:
If God created the world in 6 days..and we came on the 6th..who told us about the other 5??? Was there some Jew sitting there with a stone tablet going "Uh..huh..light is good. How many O's? Two okay."

Undercurrent

People routinely try to, but never really succeed. In order to get them to not damningly contradict each other, you have to throw out so much of both.

Some people feel that all intellectual conflicts can be solved by a friendly (no pun intended)mediator who will find some plausable way to say "Maybe you're both right." On The Brady Bunch, this happens a lot. In the real world it doesn't very often.

m.