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bravjim -> RE: Is It possible to believe in God if you don't believe in Creation? (10/14/2008 9:51:23 PM)
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I too believe in evolution, I just don't believe it's by accident. See, the bible teaches that for God, a day is like a thousand years. I see the days of Genesis 1 as periods of time, rather than as one single day. Another way that I look at it is God can see everything from beginning to end. So He could have created the universe all in 6 days, but it took billions of years for it all to develop. But in His eyes, He could see the end results from the moment that He spoke them into creation.
This can be very difficult to explain. I can look at an individual life, and see how that individual life evolves throughout it's life. A human starts as an embryo, becomes an infant, then a toddler, a child, then preteen to a teen, to a young adult, to a middle aged adult, to a senior citizen. With each stage comes new challenges, different health issues, and maturity levels. Different species have gone through different stages as well.
The reason that I can have faith that God created everything is because of the similarities. Every animal has 2 eyes to see, 2 ears to hear, skin that can feel, the ability to smell, so on and so forth, which gives all animals the ability to protect themselves and survive. Yet every species has differences, which is explained by God's love for variety. The fact is that there have been billions upon billions of people who have lived through out the centuries, but no two are exactly alike. The same can be said of all animals. All of this together adds up to an intelligent designer who can differentiate and love every creature uniquely. My thoughts on this subject can go much deeper, all the way down to dna, and atoms, all the way to the creations of the starts and planets and galaxies. It comes down to see God in the creation of everything. I would recommend the book of Job, especially when God finally starts questioning him about what it is he truly knows about the world around him, and how much he doesn't know, while all the while, God knows the answers to all of those questions and so many more.
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