Why can't some Christians accept Evolution?

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spurgeonryan said:

MrBubbles said:
plenty of christians believe in evolution and the big bang theory.

Come on now! Most kids growing up in a religous home get taught many things, one of them is that Evolution is wrong!

 

I am sure there are some Christians who believe that, but I assure you a majority refuse to!

90% of Americans believe in God. 52% of Americans accept evolution as truth. That means 42% of people in America who believe in God also recognise the truth of evolution. That's not all Christians, and it's not even the majority of Christians. But it is plenty of them.

The Bible teaches evolution, if you read the Bible as using physical language to tell spiritual truths, and that it was revealed in accordance with the capacity of the generality of the people at that time to understand. The universe was created in 6 days in Genesis, each day a new aspect of the universe was made until humanity appeared on the 6th day. If you understand that the people of the time had no concept of the immensity of space and could not possibly grasp billions of years, let alone the concept of a light year (or even that light has to travel from source to destination) you can see that genesis was an expressionb of evolution that could be digested by the bronze age mind. And if you consider that an educated 10 year old child of today is more knowledgable about the world and science than anyone at the time the book of Genesis was written you will clearly see that the bible could not tell the full story of evolution to the people of the time. Jesus did not elucidate Genesis in any way, because even though a few thousand years had passed human knowledge and understanding was little advanced over what it was back when Genesis was written. Even Mohammad wasn't in a position to expound on evolution.

Besides Jesus and Mohammad had more important things to do than to talk about evolution. They were more concerned with refining the characters of the people and society around them, and into the future, than looking back at the past to talk about how life came to be on earth.

The eastern religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism) don't have a Genesis story, so people from these religions would generally not have any hang ups about evolution or the Big Bang!

Continuing to use those ancient texts as the sole source of religious teachings is like continuing to use high school textbooks written in the 1920's as the basis for our high school education.

God must have a modus operandi for how the universe and life works. TBBT and Evolution are more than satisfactory mechanisms, it would seem.

The real head scratcher is free will. But that would be for a different thread.