Sunday, March 4, 2012
God vs. Evolution
Evolution
and a belief in God I believe are incompatible. I think this because if your
truly believe in evolution then the idea of God does not make sense. Evolution is
the idea that all things living on Earth came from a simple thing to a more
complex thing, such as a cell to a human. With this being said, God would have not been
able to create the world like it is believed he did. God is believed to create
the Earth in 6 days. This belief does not support evolution. Richard Dawkins
points out many things that support my belief that the belief in God and the
belief in evolution are incompatible. One of the examples he give is, The Argument
from Degree. In this example he states that just because somebody is not the maximum
of something does not mean that there is a higher being that is and they are
God. I think Aquinas would respond by arguing
that Dawkins does not fully support the idea that God does not exist with
examples, he just uses personal belief.
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I think that you are completely right. Evolution and the belief in God are incompatible with each other because they use completely different means of explaining why things are how they are today. God created earth and he was the sole creator of the world, while evolution says that the world was created over an extended period of time. Both evolution and the belief in god contradict each other. I also agree with you on your thoughts about Aquinas response. Aquinas would probably argue that Dawkins does not completely hold up the thought that God does not exist with examples. Dawkins uses more personal belief to support his claim.
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