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Creation or Evolution

  • Creation

  • Evolution

  • Unsure


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*IF YOU HAVE NOT YET VOTED PLEASE DO SO, IT WILL ONLY TAKE A MOMENT OF YOUR TIME*



Ok, here's the deal. You answer the poll, that is all.

For the purposes of this poll, voting for creation means you believe in some sort of divine creation of the earth as it is now or similar. As in God had a direct hand creating the earth and it's inhabitants and although evolution may play a part in your version of creation, it is only "microevolution" and was not the mechanism that caused the variety of life on earth. If you believe in a young earth, a worldwide flood, or hyper evolution, vote creation.

Voting for evolution means that you believe that the variety of life today was a result of evolution over a long span of time. This can either be theistic evolution, or atheistic evolution, whether God had a guiding hand in it or not is irrelevant. If you believe that God created or "jumpstarted" simple life, but used evolution to sculpt the plethora of life today, vote evolution. Do not vote evolution if you do not believe this took millions of years.

Posting is strongly discouraged and should be limited to questions specifically related to the poll (for example, what category you fit into if you are unsure because of certain beliefs) or just bumping the thread after a vote (we do want to try and keep this visible to get a strong sample).

If you really can't make up your mind, check unsure.

If you absolutely must post the reasons for your opinion then fine, but please, and I can't stress this enough, DO NOT ANSWER EACH OTHERS POSTS OR DEBATE.

The moment I see the inkling of a debate forming I'm calling in the mods to lock the thread, and we might not get a decent sampling, so please post carefully.

Thank you in advance for your input and responsible posting.
 
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voted creation but just to be sure it's clear I believe in microevolution.

There is literally no difference between the processes of macro or micro evolution.

Any distinction between the two is artificial.
 
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I sense a debate about to happen and want to stop it right here, whether it was actually going to happen or not. Not only did the OP outright say no debate, but this section of the forum is not for debate. If you want debate, go to the Serious Stuff section and have at it (nicely).
Everyone is welcome to post their opinion/beliefs in this thread, but nothing beyond that.

To answer the thread, I voted Creationism. I also believe in Micro-Evolution (aka, a dog makes another dog, and can eventually be bred to make a different kind of dog, but can never be bred to make a cat or a bird. Ever. Even after Millions of billions of trillions of years. Period). And to clarify something said in the OP, I do not believe in the "divine creation of the earth as it is now or similar". I believe in divine creation of the Earth, but I believe that it was drastically different pre-flood (approx. 4000-5000 years ago). The flood, God's judgement, left its lasting marks on the Earth and caused lots of processes to slow down.

Anyway, I'm not going to get into it here, as this is for merely stating a brief opinion, but I wanted to clear some stuff up.

Cheers!
-David
 
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Thanks David. For the record, drastically different fits into the creation model as well. I'm sorry I forgot about that.

For the rest, were the words "do not answer each others posts" not capitalized enough? I really don't want this thread closed before I get a decent sample.
 
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Theistic evolution. Just because we don't know how God made the world in exact detail doesn't mean that only what has been given to us via the bible is what happened. Who's to say how he made man? We've seen how flashy he can get in Egypt- It's quite possible he doesn't just make stuff happen at once (though he can if we wants to) and takes his time if he sees fit.
 
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