Question: Hello. My question for you today is this; what is your theory on how the world began? Do you believe in the evolution theory? Are you a Christian and believe in the creation theory? Do you believe in a mix of both? And why?
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Hello, I wanted to talk to you a bit more about this subject, and it wouldn’t let me put up a second question, so I’m hoping you can put up second answers or comment on this as well.
Thankyou all for your earlier replies. I myself have been raised as a Christian, as both my parents are. However, my dad is a science teacher and my mum was raised in a Liberal church, meaning that she has an extremely open view on the world. She has this theory that the evolution theory is quite accurate, even though God exists, because she believes that the way Genesis was written is more like a poem; you shouldn\\\’t necessarily take it literally all the time, but it does have some truth behind it. She doesn\\\’t necessarily think that the world took billions of years for the world to form, but she always says \\\”Who am I to say?\\\”. She thinks that it might be more like seven thousand years or seven million. Not necessarily with the seven in front, I just put it there as an example.
So my question is: what do you think of this theory/belief/whatever else you want to call it?Personally, I am still figuring out what I believe, and I do believe in God, but I am extremely curious about how the world came to be.
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Hi Zanzibar,
You are lucky to have really supportive parents who are helpful and happy for you to explore these things and learn whatever you can 🙂 Its great that your parents talk to you about these questions as well.
I have lots of science friends who are religious, Christians, Jews, Muslims and Hindus, being religious, having a belied in God or having faith in a higher power certainly does not stop people from asking scientific questions or anything like that. I think sometimes it can even help scientists because we often encounter moral questions in our work and having a framework of religion can help guide people.
My basic principals are-if you’re not harming anybody else and being respectful, I feel that people are free to think whatever they like 🙂
I will say though that the scientific evidence that we have suggests that the universe has been around for billions of years and that evolutionary theory states that things tend to happen by accident, there is not a divine purpose for the way life evolves.
It is a very interesting philosophical debate and helps to highlight how the scientific method works and what the limitations of science and religion are.
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zanzibar
I am not a Christian, I do not believe in any particular religion or align myself with any particular faith. I do not believe in God.
I do believe in evolutionary theory because it is the only scientific explanation for how we got to be here!
But, as to what happened before the Big Bang that started it all, I don’t know 🙂
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I too believe in evolution and dont believe that any religious explanations of how the earth and life began are sceintific enough for me.
But I must admit, I dont know how the FIRST molecule started. but then, I am not a neurophysichist !!!
maybe in my next life !!!
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I believe in evolution, because it’s a really good explanation of how animals/plants/humans became as we are today, and there’s a solid scientific basis for the theory of evolution!
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Wow that is a big question.
Firsly; I do think the Big Bang Theory is accurate (and the show is hilarious).
Secondly; The evolution Theory is not something you can believe in or not believe in, that’s not how theories work. I think it’s a great explanation and I think there is a lot of evidence for it. It’s the best theory we have so far.
I’m not a Christian, although I do go to Christian schools (my dad was even studying to be a minister!). I think religion is a beautiful and useful thing. I think it did a lot of the groundwork for science.
The thing isreligion or religious concepts should be compared to or measured by science. Religion and Science are completely different realms. Religion (creationism) shouldn’t be taught instead of science and science shouldn’t be taught instead of religion. That way we can have both!
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I like talking about this sort of thing! I don’t have a theory on how the world began, happy to leave that to the physicists! I absolutely believe in evolution, there is an enormous amount of supporting evidence, and despite what some creationists might say there is no evidence that falsifies or disproves evolutionary theory. I was raised catholic, but I don’t consider myself christian (I go with “agnostic atheist”!), and certainly do not believe in creation (nor would I consider creation a theory, in that I don’t believe it can be tested). Having said that, I have nothing against religion per se — provided they are not harming others, people can believe what they like and live how they want, and who the hell would I be to say otherwise! I don’t like the aggressive approach taken by people like Richard Dawkins, I think it’s antagonistic and disrespectful, and won’t have the desired result.
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