Christianity and Evolution (as requested)
when discussing these concepts its important to get to the core meaning of each. Christianity stripped down, is the belief that Jesus is the messiah. "Christ" is the surname given him, but it is not his birth name. The word Christ means "the anointed one", and thus Christianity is the belief that Jesus of Nazareth is the messiah, the messiah is by definition "any person who was anointed by a prophet of God" (source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah)
So Christianity believes that Jesus is god son and born to the world to absolve heathens of thier sins. The core factor in christianity is that only god knows, and only god knows whom he has revealed this to.
So it is possible that god didnt annoint jesus as messiah, that infact his apostiles did so to further his church and his teachings. It is also possible that god DID annoint him messiah and infact Jesus is "Christ" and that mythology that has been woven around him is infact true.
There is one crucial factor that has to be considered when comparing Christianity to Evolution, and that is the matter of Faith. Unless God has revealed to you, or anyone the true nature of Jesus, it requires you to make a mental choice of faith to accept it as true.
This is the core difference between evolution and christianity.
Evolution is "evolution is the measurable change in the heritable traits of a population over successive generations." (source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution)
Note the key word in the defintion is "measurable" it implies that there is some way, or some fact by which you can draw a factual conclusion to the outcome. Evidence that is tangable that can infact be proven is the core element to evolution, and that is the key difference to Christianity.
Evolution dosent require faith, it requires a measurement of some factor or condition that proves the theory.
However, what evolution cannot prove is the begining of it all. At some point, life started. If evolution requires a measurement of some factor or condition, and there is no factor or condition how can the theory apply? It cannot, unless one employs faith.
And this, this is the real problem with the two theories, in the begining both require faith in order to solidify thier claims. Evolutionist can point to the "big bang" as the start of life and creation, but they cant tell you why that big bang occurred or for what purpose.
Personally I beleive in evolution, I believe we have evolved into who we are, with God's blessing. I find it hard to believe that god himself has intervened in all of our history given the millions of worlds out there he has to attend to. I believe god set us up on a course to succeed to reach where we are today, god set up the original parameters of life and evolution took over and guided the course.
I believe evolution is like an artist who has a canvas and they paint a masterpiece, God, for his part, gave the artist the frame by which to paint within.
So Christianity believes that Jesus is god son and born to the world to absolve heathens of thier sins. The core factor in christianity is that only god knows, and only god knows whom he has revealed this to.
So it is possible that god didnt annoint jesus as messiah, that infact his apostiles did so to further his church and his teachings. It is also possible that god DID annoint him messiah and infact Jesus is "Christ" and that mythology that has been woven around him is infact true.
There is one crucial factor that has to be considered when comparing Christianity to Evolution, and that is the matter of Faith. Unless God has revealed to you, or anyone the true nature of Jesus, it requires you to make a mental choice of faith to accept it as true.
This is the core difference between evolution and christianity.
Evolution is "evolution is the measurable change in the heritable traits of a population over successive generations." (source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution)
Note the key word in the defintion is "measurable" it implies that there is some way, or some fact by which you can draw a factual conclusion to the outcome. Evidence that is tangable that can infact be proven is the core element to evolution, and that is the key difference to Christianity.
Evolution dosent require faith, it requires a measurement of some factor or condition that proves the theory.
However, what evolution cannot prove is the begining of it all. At some point, life started. If evolution requires a measurement of some factor or condition, and there is no factor or condition how can the theory apply? It cannot, unless one employs faith.
And this, this is the real problem with the two theories, in the begining both require faith in order to solidify thier claims. Evolutionist can point to the "big bang" as the start of life and creation, but they cant tell you why that big bang occurred or for what purpose.
Personally I beleive in evolution, I believe we have evolved into who we are, with God's blessing. I find it hard to believe that god himself has intervened in all of our history given the millions of worlds out there he has to attend to. I believe god set us up on a course to succeed to reach where we are today, god set up the original parameters of life and evolution took over and guided the course.
I believe evolution is like an artist who has a canvas and they paint a masterpiece, God, for his part, gave the artist the frame by which to paint within.