A Misconception that should be rooted out

[Crazyhorse1]

Originally Posted by Sheriff Gonna Getcha

So you don't dispute the theory of evolution, you just think that God created the universe?

According to all the "laws" of physics I know, matter can spring from nothing as easily as God can spring from nothing. However, evolution doesn't address itself to the evolution of God (if there is such a thing as an evolving God) anymore than it has anything to say about how something evoluted from nothing.

Darwin didn't know how something sprang from nothing and never said he did. Nor do any of us know the answer to that question, for sure. Nor do we know or have any accepted theories about how evolution relates to first cause or not. Was first cause a sudden event or did first cause involve a process of what we now call "nothing" evolving into something?

To expect the theory of evolution to explain the origin of life or matter is asking way too much for a fairly modest theory that explains how species evolve, not how things come into existence. Creationists , being concerned with creation, tend to think evolutionists have the same concern. They don't.

Thus it appears to Creationists that there holes in the Theory. There aren't. The so called "holes" in evolution are only answers about God and Creation that they think should be there and aren't. Properly understood, there is absolutely nothing in evolution that indicates whether there's a God or not, or even speculates about how matter or life came into existence. The major problem is one of education. Creationists don't seem to know what they're talking about when they're talking about science.

The result of the above is one worth remarking on. For the most part, only Creationists who are looking for final answers have their faith tested by the Theory of Evolution. On the other hand, most people I know who accept evolution find enough room in it to accommodate God.