Originally Posted by
Katie
The Bible was written by people, not by God. People used to believe that thunder and lightening and storms were caused by God because they didn't understand the reality behind why things were happening. I literally just finished a course on the origin of Christianity from a college with a religious affiliation, so if you want to argue that point, I have an entire semesters worth of facts I can throw at you.
I believe in evolution. But I don't think that that means that there hasn't been some sort of divine intervention along the way. I personally believe that there may have been some driving force behind the Big Bang because we have not been able to replicate it yet. But I have seen and read (and I've worked at 2 different zoos) enough evidence of animals, and humans for that matter, evolving that outright denying the existence of it seems naive. And natural selection IS evolution. I remember reading recently that there have been more documented cases of rhinos being born with smaller horns, or no horns at all, because the rhinos that have smaller horns weren't being killed at the same rate as rhinos with larger horns by poachers. And we have physical proof of homo sapien predecessors.
Do I believe in an omnipotent God who created us from dust? No.
Do I believe that there is some greater force that could have forced the Big Bang? Maybe.
Do I believe that evolution is a real and ongoing process? Absolutely.