Ok, so my best friend, who is a Christian, and I got into an argument about, go figure, creationism vs evolutionism. Anyone who has ever mentioned the word evolution to a Christian knows how Christians (or at least the greater majority of them) feel about evolution – it’s wrong, it’s against God, etc. So I proposed a perfectly logical middle ground. We were created to evolve. That was met with a head shake as though I just don’t get it. No, I get it.
You see, I get that Darwin could have been wrong – and that the scientific proof that has been discovered could be wrong. I also get that quite frankly, we *could* all be wrong in thinking that there *is* a higher power. Not saying that I believe there isn’t a higher power, but saying that the possibility is *there* that one does not exist. Therefore I believe it is prudent to say that we were created to evolve.
Believers cannot and will not deny that there is a higher power who created us, be it the Christian version of God, the Pagan/Wiccan Goddess, Allah, or whoever. Scientists cannot refute the proof that has been uncovered that evolution has occurred. So…. we were created to evolve. It’s simple, yet so hard for people to grasp.
They say the human mind is unable to grasp the idea that Deity has *always* been there. That Deity *is* and *always will be* there. Ok, so apparently the very idea that Deity might have just created everything, then sat back and said “let me/us see how they change, how they evolve…physically, mentally, and spiritually” is another idea that the human mind is unable to grasp. The very idea that we were created but created in such a way that we could and did evolve, is so large and so mind blowing that very few people are able to actually deal with the fact that it could be.
What is your stand on creation vs evolution? We were created? Did we evolve? Or was it a bit of both?