My mom was pretty irritated once when I said the word evolution in a positive way. But I don’t know if I see evolution the same way other people do, and in no way do I think that theory disproves the Bible.
As I once told the minister, “I want to believe there’s a God. I want something watching out for me.” I assume most people are the same. So, for a time, I would quietly ask friends about the “why” of their beliefs. Nothing at all confrontational because this was all about me learning from them. And if someone said they didn't believe in God, I let it drop. One lady burst into laughter when I asked her, but she had a real serious answer and I will be forever thankful that I asked her.
I watched ministers on a video give the answer of “faith” and that’s understandable, but they missed an opportunity. “Faith” is a non-answer if you’re speaking to someone who openly admits they don’t have faith. If you answer with that one word, you need to be able to follow up with more about how faith convinced you.
Years ago, one scientist on television who studied the cosmos, Carl Sagan, answered the question about God by saying the order (symmetry) in microscopic things was his answer. I believe he said that humans create things which have jaggedness. That when he looked at natural things under microscopes, they remain symmetric as you see the smaller and smaller parts. He said they never became disordered, basically, when he went as microscopic as he could.
For me, evolution does not at all disprove God. Think about it, little organisms were in the ocean and they got out onto land. One little thing turned into a fowl, but then diverged into all sorts of fowl…chickens, eagles, cormorants, hummingbirds. If they were on their own, wouldn’t they all have turned into mostly the same type of bird?
I don't understand how anything could evolve into such a variety and such beauty without more being there than I can comprehend. So, the way I see it, something helped evolution along and guided it. I know the Bible says the days on which things were created. But I could imagine anything that designed the differences we see, could also use time in His own way—if you’ve seen the old superman comics where Superman changes the rotation of the earth to change time, well, that’s an illustration of something a Higher Being who can start evolution could do. I’ve also read that the first part of Genesis correlates with the order scientists credit creation.
We all have to arrive at our own beliefs in our own way.
It still makes me happy to remember that conversation I had with my friend who I’d asked why she believed in God, and she burst out laughing. She said she was in a car, and wondered if there really was a god, and a few seconds later she sees a billboard saying, “There is a God.”
No kidding. I think the billboard was on the turnpike road between Joplin, Missouri and Tulsa.
Happy journeys on your road to faith.
Note: On the flicker at the top, you have circles and patterns. The last bird below, the Great Blue Heron is the one I consider to be a prehistoric bird, but that's just my personal viewpoint. If you ever get a chance, listen to their call when they're exiting an area and they're upset. It's exactly how a prehistoric bird of my imagination would sound. It evolved a little differently than birdsong did. It's more of a screechy, clunky caw with a complaint thrown in.
As I once told the minister, “I want to believe there’s a God. I want something watching out for me.” I assume most people are the same. So, for a time, I would quietly ask friends about the “why” of their beliefs. Nothing at all confrontational because this was all about me learning from them. And if someone said they didn't believe in God, I let it drop. One lady burst into laughter when I asked her, but she had a real serious answer and I will be forever thankful that I asked her.
I watched ministers on a video give the answer of “faith” and that’s understandable, but they missed an opportunity. “Faith” is a non-answer if you’re speaking to someone who openly admits they don’t have faith. If you answer with that one word, you need to be able to follow up with more about how faith convinced you.
Years ago, one scientist on television who studied the cosmos, Carl Sagan, answered the question about God by saying the order (symmetry) in microscopic things was his answer. I believe he said that humans create things which have jaggedness. That when he looked at natural things under microscopes, they remain symmetric as you see the smaller and smaller parts. He said they never became disordered, basically, when he went as microscopic as he could.
For me, evolution does not at all disprove God. Think about it, little organisms were in the ocean and they got out onto land. One little thing turned into a fowl, but then diverged into all sorts of fowl…chickens, eagles, cormorants, hummingbirds. If they were on their own, wouldn’t they all have turned into mostly the same type of bird?
I don't understand how anything could evolve into such a variety and such beauty without more being there than I can comprehend. So, the way I see it, something helped evolution along and guided it. I know the Bible says the days on which things were created. But I could imagine anything that designed the differences we see, could also use time in His own way—if you’ve seen the old superman comics where Superman changes the rotation of the earth to change time, well, that’s an illustration of something a Higher Being who can start evolution could do. I’ve also read that the first part of Genesis correlates with the order scientists credit creation.
We all have to arrive at our own beliefs in our own way.
It still makes me happy to remember that conversation I had with my friend who I’d asked why she believed in God, and she burst out laughing. She said she was in a car, and wondered if there really was a god, and a few seconds later she sees a billboard saying, “There is a God.”
No kidding. I think the billboard was on the turnpike road between Joplin, Missouri and Tulsa.
Happy journeys on your road to faith.
Note: On the flicker at the top, you have circles and patterns. The last bird below, the Great Blue Heron is the one I consider to be a prehistoric bird, but that's just my personal viewpoint. If you ever get a chance, listen to their call when they're exiting an area and they're upset. It's exactly how a prehistoric bird of my imagination would sound. It evolved a little differently than birdsong did. It's more of a screechy, clunky caw with a complaint thrown in.
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