Does Evolution Disprove Christianity?

http://www.reasonablefaith.org - Dr. William Lane Craig answers the controversial question on whether evolution disproves Christianity.

William Lane Craig's view on evolution, creationism, and Intelligent Design: http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists?p=C2D3876855C5690E

William Lane Craig's debate with Francisco Ayala:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=C34CF609D7F22AD6

The NCSE article that speaks of the fact that most evolutionists are theists can be found here:
http://ncse.com/rncse/29/2/winning-their-hearts-minds-who-should-speak-evolution

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[SanguineBullet667]

Answer to the Title is YES

[drcraigvideos]

@SanguineBullet667 Please tell us how.

[idiallin]

@drcraigvideos It makes sense that evolution disproves Christianity. Is the character of God in the bible really consistent with someone who would abandon his creation to fend for themselves for billions of years through natural selection? What a sick and twisted God that would be. Also, why then would he choose to reveal himself 2,000 years ago, 198,000 years after modern humans evolved? Also, why did God create Neanderthals and allow us to kill them 30,000 years ago?

[drcraigvideos]

@idiallin *SIGH* Yeah, I heard all this same typical stuff from Hitchens. Try to be more original. There is no inconsistency between evil or sickness existing and God existing, because He can have a sufficient reason for allowing it. Seems simple enough. And neanderthals pertty much died by themselves, we didn't kill them. I would suggest you read Francisco Ayala who is an evolutionist and a scientist who believes God's existence is NECESSARY in order for evolution to happen.

[BrokHomz]

Darwinism evolution is in DIRECT conflict with the biblical account of the Genesis.

If, God made us through evolution, then death created man...and that BIG implications for the nature of God... its not just a cute disagreement amongst Christians. Its everything!

[aj19bcx]

no adam and eve means no original sin which means no fall of man which undermines what jesus died for.

[TheFaithfulApologist]

@blattt188 "Let the earth produce every sort of animal, each producing offspring of the same kind"- You do understand that many people would agree that Genesis 1:1 - 3:1 (Or further) Are allegorical. Secondly Evolution occurs slowly, Thus the creature which bares evolutionary differences is only based out the original creatures genetics. So technically it is baring its own kind.

[blattt188]

The bible says that species evolve only after their own general kind. So something like a turtle and a human having a common ancestor would be incompatible with the bible. To say a human evolved from a monkey would also be incompatible not only with the bible, but with Natural Selection and with the law of entropy. But you might be able to say that humans and monkeys devolved from a common figure, which that would not contradict the scripture.

[NomiVoluntad]

@idiallin Dr Craig also proposed that the speed or effectiveness in creating something for an unlimited being as God is not a problem because he has all the resources and all the time, but the efficiency and speed is necessary for us since we are limited

[cengime]

@Fray2221 I think that Dr Craig is well aware of the history of the problem of evil, and probably was by the time he got his master's degree in philosophy of religion in 1975. He was just pointing out that you may think you're going to leave him speechless with your astonishing proof that there is no god, but he heard this tired old argument when he debated Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris, and A. C. Grayling. In fact, he devotes two chapters to it in his book Hard Questions, Real Answers.

[tzDub92]

um wouldnt an intelligent god create things to "evolve" so they can adapt and live.

[boonskety]

@idiallin Christianity is based on the teachings and life of Jesus. All dogmatic bullshit aside evolution doesn't disprove the existence or discredit the teachings (forgiveness, pacifism, questioning establishment.) of Jesus so by that logic it in no way disproves Christianity. As for theism in general, I personally believe in biological evolution but what's to say the the changes initiated through it weren't orchestrated by a force larger than us?

[Fray2221]

@drcraigvideos Hitchens didn't invent the problem of evil. Please be a little more aware of historical context.

What moral reason does God have for torturing small animals with disease and predators and starvation? Do you simply have faith that God has a morally justification for such a thing? It's hardly a surprise that religious dogmatists would justify any form of evil on the basis of faith in some hidden spiritual justification.

[JohananRaatz]

@HeyHeyHarmonicaLuke "does NOT show us that the universe had a beginning"

Actually it does. When you apply the holographic principle to cosmology, you find that entropy requires space-time to have vanished from existence going back to the Big Bang. Space-time can only be produced after the Planck Epoch.

The wave-function of the universe precedes the universe, but it's not defined by any physical units.

[HeyHeyHarmonicaLuke]

@THEEVANTHETOON modern physics does NOT show us that the universe had a beginning, just that this state of the universe did.

we don't know what was before the big bang, and 'nothingness' was only the leading theory for 17 years, suggested AND rebuked by the same scientist, Hawking, as the frontiers of singularity physics advanced.

at the moment it's generally thought to be more likely that some hyperspace multiverse preceded the big bang, not nothingness