Evolution or creation, which?
By Hope
@1hopefulman (45111)
Canada
November 29, 2016 8:41am CST
Evolution or creation, which makes the most sense?
I think that both take some kind of faith as we have not seen God or some chemicals come to life and evolve into a bird or a dog.
So we have to look at what exists and decide in which direction the evidence points to?
Where do you stand and why?
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
2 Dec 16
I make my stand with creation. Believing in God is a lot easier than believing in the impossible theories of evolution, which always comes down to the particle of dust. My question is - Where did the dust come from? To me there is only one answer - God. After all the Bible does have the answer in the very first verse of Genesis - In the BEGINNING God ...
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@1hopefulman (45111)
• Canada
2 Dec 16
So true! Those few words sum up so much. "In the beginning God created..." God created the variety of elements and He created the variety of lifeforms which are all interdependent. He created the beauty and the puzzle for us to study and marvel. He created the laws that hold everything together and the principles that would hold mankind together in love and peace. He loves us so much. May we be appreciative and cooperate now and into eternity. What blessed possibilities lie ahead! 
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
2 Dec 16
@1hopefulman Yes, the possibilities are endless.
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@1hopefulman (45111)
• Canada
30 Nov 16
@skysnap What to you verifies evolution? Do you think that God exists?
@skysnap (20152)
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30 Nov 16
@1hopefulman evolution because we can verify it. We can't verify creation.
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@youless (114117)
• Guangzhou, China
4 Dec 16
@IreneVincent I heard some scientists said that the little cells came from the rock outspace. It hit the earth and they also brought the cells. I wonder how Buddhism mentions how the life comes from. Different religion has different opinions.
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@1hopefulman (45111)
• Canada
30 Nov 16
The Bible does not say that everything happened in a second. It uses time periods called "days" to explain that it took time. It also explains that these "days" could be thousands of years.
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@db20747 (43419)
• Washington, District Of Columbia
12 Feb 18
@1hopefulman how do u explain that when God said let there be light, "it was so". That sounds like it occurred soon as He spoke it!!
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@LeaPea2417 (40020)
• Toccoa, Georgia
5 Dec 16
I believe in Creation. I believe in the literal Genesis (Bible) account of God creating the Earth in 6 days. I think that story makes the most sense. I think the Earth is much younger than what Evolution states.
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@1hopefulman (45111)
• Canada
5 Dec 16
Anne, I appreciate your comment. I don't want to change you view. We are just having a friendly discussion. It is logical to ask, how long is a day?
If I say that I worked all day. How long did I work? Eight hours, 12 hours or 24 hours?
If I say, in my grandfather's day, things were different. How long is that day?
How long is a day in God's view? Is it 24 hours, 1000 years or even more?
Notice these scriptures:
2 Peter 3:8 King James Version (KJV) 8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Psalm 90:4 King James Version (KJV) 4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
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@1hopefulman (45111)
• Canada
20 Mar 18
@gnatsmom You are right! The point is that the Bible mentions that the way God sees time is different from humans and so whatever science finds does not change anything. The Bible is a reliable guide for mankind.
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@gnatsmom (2575)
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20 Mar 18
@1hopefulman I have heard this debate many times. I finally came to the point that it doesn't matter if you are an old earth philosopher or a young earth philosopher, if a day is 24 hours or 1,000 years, either way God is still God and He still miraculously created the earth. Two of my favorite creationist differ on this view-Jason Lisle and Ken Hamm. Both have marvelous insight. I happen to lean, myself, to the young earth philosophy.
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@annastasiaaaaaa (727)
• Philippines
5 Dec 16
I believe in God and I'm proud to say that therefore my stand is Creation.
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@1hopefulman (45111)
• Canada
5 Dec 16
@annastasiaaaaaa Wonderful! 
Psalm 104:24-25 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
24 Lord, you created so many things!
With your wisdom you made them all.
The earth is full of the living things you made.
25 Look at the ocean, so big and wide!
It is filled with all kinds of sea life.
There are creatures large and small—too many to count!
Psalm 104:24-25 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
24 Lord, you created so many things!
With your wisdom you made them all.
The earth is full of the living things you made.
25 Look at the ocean, so big and wide!
It is filled with all kinds of sea life.
There are creatures large and small—too many to count!1 person likes this
@1hopefulman (45111)
• Canada
5 Dec 16
@Bluedoll I appreciate your point. However, if any believe that there is no Creator, I don't agree with that and I also wish the best for them.
@Bluedoll (16770)
• Canada
5 Dec 16
I believe in our creator @1hopefulman my point was to suggest that proper science and religious belief in God need not conflict like this.
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@buenavida (9984)
• Sweden
2 Dec 16
Many scientists who study the nature and the DNA, have come to the conclusion that there must be a very intelligent constructor behind every living thing on earth. There is no way the living things can evolve from nothing to all the complicated life forms we can see around us.
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@buenavida (9984)
• Sweden
3 Dec 16
@1hopefulman - Yes, it is amazing. - I was searching an article I once wrote about our DNA and the incredible data transfer it took to make us to become the person we are, but could not find it.
Instead I found this one, and it says a lot!!:
:
Give a wild guess? According to some estimates I have come across, one gram of DNA contains as much information as one trillion CDs. The DNA- product of...
@1hopefulman (45111)
• Canada
3 Dec 16
@buenavida Thanks for the reminder! The DNA is a product of a very intelligent Designer and there are no two ways about it. It is a program. It needs a programmer. Let us give God the due praise and thanks he deserves.
"One gram is equal to 0.0353 ounces. A gram of sugar is approximately 1/4 teaspoon of sugar."
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@1hopefulman (45111)
• Canada
3 Dec 16
God is amazing in that He can put so much information in such a tiny space.
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@snowy22315 (208746)
• United States
4 Dec 16
Evolution all the way..although I am sure God or whomever, a supreme being or Master of the universe..had a hand with this..the "God Particle" as they call it
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
8 Dec 16
Evolution can be studied and observed and tested empirically and DNA studies back the hypothesis very comprehensively - they have even found that because more human females are having caesarian section births, women's pelvises are shrinking making natural childbirth potentially more dangerous
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@1hopefulman (45111)
• Canada
8 Dec 16
@arthurchappell Is God in the picture at all?
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
8 Dec 16
@1hopefulman no, God became a redundant concept to me many years back though many undoubtedly still take comfort in their beliefs
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@1hopefulman (45111)
• Canada
1 Dec 16
@LadyDuck Yes, I believe in God and that he created all things. Are you no longer a believer in God?
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@LadyDuck (502148)
• Italy
1 Dec 16
@1hopefulman Let's put the things that way. If you are a believer, you believe that God created everything from the darkness, this is something you believe, you have no way to check. You can scientifically follow the evolution of nature, plants, humans, animals and so on.
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@db20747 (43419)
• Washington, District Of Columbia
12 Feb 18
@1hopefulman do u notice any changes in us?
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@gnatsmom (2575)
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20 Mar 18
I am 100% a creationist. The simplest reasoning I can give is to say look at a piano. If there was an explosion in my living room and a piano just appeared, people would think I was crazy. The Big Bang Theory holds no water, because everyone knows that explosions destroy. They do not create. Furthermore, to say everything evolves from a single cell still begs the question, where did that single cell come from. Basically, because there is a piano in my living room, there had to be a piano maker. If you have a watch, you have to have a watch maker. If you have a world, then there had to be a world maker.
