This is for evolutionists & creationists?
Could there actually be another earth-like planet? I never thought so, but at the moment I was just thinking maybe there could be. For evolutionists: organisms could have evolved on another planet in some other galaxy far far away. For Creationists: God could have created another planet in another galaxy far far away, serving the same purpose as people (Christians) do on earth. These are just random thoughts, but what do you think? And stick with whatever side your on (Evolutionist/Creationist), no bashing the other side.
Evolutionists vs. creationists?
You CAN believe in both, you know. Is it so unlikely that God could've created the Earth using evolutionary processes? I believe God got the stone for life rolling and that he was the one to bring about the universe. But I think he did that through evolution. Why? Because the theory makes so much sense. There is so much evidence to back it up, too. I don't see how people deny that evolution happens.
What are "Strict Creationists" and "Strict Evolutionists"?
I think a "strict Creationist" would take the biblical account of Creation literally. I would think that a "strict Evolutionist" would consider the Theory of Evolution as proven fact and not a theory but would not necessarily be an Atheist. There is nothing in the Theory of Evolution that either affirms or denies the existance of God. Most Christians including Catholics do not take the stories of creation in the Bible literally. Wd believe the book of Genesis tells religious truth and not necessarily historical fact. One of the religious truths is that God created everything and declared all was good. These Christians can believe in the theories of the big bang or evolution or both or neither. On August 12, 1950 Pope Pius XII said in his encyclical Humani generis: The Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity with the present state of human sciences and sacred theology, research and discussions, on the part of men experienced in both fields, take place with regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter - for the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God. Here is the complete encyclical: http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_x... The Church supports science in the discovery of God's creation. At this time, the theories of the big bang and evolution are the most logical scientific explanations. However tomorrow someone may come up with better ideas. As long as we believe that God started the whole thing, both the Bible and responsible modern science can live in harmony. The Clergy Letter Project an open letter endorsing the Theory of Evolution signed by over 10,000 clergy from many different Christian denominations: http://www.butler.edu/clergyproject/rel_... With love in Christ.
Scope Trials between evolutionist and creationists?
Oooh we talked about this a lot in APUSH. At this time, the American mindset was still very much dominated by religion. In the trial, it wasn't just evolution vs. creationism, but also tradition vs. progress, and religion vs. secularism. It marked a shift in the American psyche, and was the newly opened breach for scientific progress, where science would no longer be influenced, or, depending on how you see it, limited, by religion.
Are all flat-Earthers evolutionists or creationists?
If you accept evolution, you can believe the world is either flat or a globe. If you are a Creationist (in the sense of a literal interpretation of Genesis), you can also believe that the world is flat, or you can believe it is round.The world being flat or round has nothing to do with how we got to be where we are today (via creation or via evolution).Something like ‘seeing all the kingdoms of the earth at once’ can be interpreted literally as meaning that the world is therefore flat, (“look the bible ‘says’ the earth is flat” - NO it does not!) or it can be interpreted equally literally as a metaphor. E.G. the whole town came out to greet the returning victorious football team - could literally mean either everyone in the town or just a large number of its inhabitants. You have to take into account such idioms and their possibly lost meanings. If I were to say today, (to quote another Quran) “Get me a sandwich, and step on it”, that would literally mean, “get me a sandwich and then grind your heals into it”. If you understand the language and the period it was taken from, you would never think of it as meaning that!I believe that God created everything but not in a literal interpretation of Genesis as many atheists say we must do. Even the catholic church’s official position is that evolution is evidently real and that our theory about it is the best explanation we have for how it works. Not every theist is a literalist. There is a much bigger picture than the out of proportion loud voices of the bible bashing american bible belt minority!