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Evolution
Can Christians
Be Evolutionists?
I
find it hard to think of anything everyone take as absolute proof of
evolution. Some people
would be even harder to convince than I would.
I do not consider that
Evolution is incompatible with Christianity.
Studying
God's creations is not denying the existence of God.
God created
everything. Did God use
evolution? We do not know, but most Christians
belong to churches that at least accept this possibility.
The Roman
Catholic Religion has about one Billion followers. This is nearly
half
the total number of Christians. The Roman Catholic hierarchy does
not
condemn evolution and never has condemned it.
Recently, this church has
become even more accepting of evolution.
I am certainly not suggesting
that every Roman Catholic has the same opinion about evolution. Not all
would accept its possibility.
Other Christian churches
have
different positions on evolution, but the Roman Catholic Church is
not
the only one to accept evolution as a theory.
For example, The Church
of England also accepts it.
I have read
several articles on Associated
Content that seem to take the view that
everyone who accepts
evolution as a theory is an atheist.
Perhaps this last statement is an
extreme way of stating the attitude of these articles, but this is
how
I read them. I have great
difficulty in understanding this.
Even
Copernicus and Galileo were allowed to put forward the idea that
the
Earth is not the centre of the universe as a THEORY. The problem came
when Galileo particularly seemed to be suggesting it as a fact,despite the evidence being much weaker then than it is now.
(Galileo may have had an arrogant side to his character.) Nowadays,
most people would accept that the Earth probably revolves round the
Sun, more than the other way round.
It is not seen as sacrilege to suggest this, despite the
interpretation that used to be put on Joshua Chapter 10, verse 13:
"Then
spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the
Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of
Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the
valley of Ajalon.
"And
the Sun stood still, and the Moon
stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is
not this written in the book of Jasher?
So the sun stood still in the
midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day. And there
was no day like that before it or after it that the LORD hearkened
unto
the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel."
An American Idea?
In other
countries it appears to me that the idea that studying
evolution is confined to atheists is less prevalent. I do not know why
it seems quite common in the United States of America.
People
often talk about believing in evolution.
I think "Believing" is the
wrong word. I Believe in
God. I study God's creations and wonder if one
of His Tools was evolution.
I do not "Believe" in evolution as a matter
of faith, merely accept the possibility.
Source:
The Holy Bible.
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