imperialscum said:
RicOlie_2 said:
imperialscum said:
So I am curious if there is anyone who believes in evolution rather than creationism and still practises religion. If so, how can you and why would you even practise religion at all?
Imperialscum, I consider evolution barely plausible without a God. It's chances of producing an intelligent being, and the chances of the process actually starting at all are so incredibly low that it could almost be deemed impossible. I also do not understand your idea that religion is incompatible with evolution, unless you refer solely to atheistic evolution. In fact, I find it quite humourous that you assume that they do not work together. Could you elaborate on why you think it doesn't jive with Christianity, or religion in general?
The chances of initial (primitive) life being started on Earth are indeed very low. But to say that it was started by a divine intervention it makes the entire thing infinitely less possible.
In what way? I'm afraid I don't understand how you arrived at that conclusion.
And the idea that God merely created the process of evolution completely contradicts to with what it is written in the bible. To my humble knowledge there is no mention or description of anything even close to evolution in the bible. Btw by evolution I refer to Darwin's theory of natural selection.
It does not contradict the Bible, aside from an overly universal interpretation of it. St. Augustine of Hippo recognized in the fourth century that the beginning of Genesis was probably not literal. This isn't something we came up all of a sudden to make our beliefs fit with science. Also, the Bible is not a science book, nor was it ever meant to be. The creation account focuses more on the why than the how, and it is meant to be a largely religious narrative rather than a scientific origin story.
A further argument of complete incompatibility of evolution and religion is that the biblical principles, to which people should abide to, go against the laws of the evolution.
In what way? As has been noted, they are a byproduct of evolution if evolution occurred with no divine intervention. Religion is built into the human brain to a certain extent. That is, prayer tends to make people happier, regardless of whether or not it does anything else. People also yearn for meaning in their lives, and religion is better able to give that than an atheistic worldview.