Well, the vote is 17-12 for yes. That is fairly close. The question is vague to a degree. I didn't realize until someone pointed out that the book of Genesis starts right off the bat with 2 different versions of creation. Yet 2 billion Christians believe it.
I think Christians should just go ahead and drop the old testament, and declare that the rest is just anecdotal.

"Believe in the Bible" is wide open to interpretation. My mom (who is a Christian but not an asshole) believes the stories in the Bible were meant to inspire, strike fear, or an attempt to explain what was unknown at the time. It's not to meant to be a interpreted as a historical, fact based document. So if a person views the bible that way, then yes you can believe in the Bible and evolution.

Well, it's 15-9 with "yes" winning. I voted no. I was a Baptist until I was 62 years old when I finally taught high school Biology. After teaching a chapter on evolution everything changed. Now I am an agnostic. Even when I was young, I couldn't feel that the God of the universe had built one planet just for man, and made up all those rules to go by. I never believed in Adam and Eve or Noah. That whole original sin crap never made any sense, and for a God to send his son to die as a sacrifice is really beyond belief.

In psychology they call it "cognitive dissonance."

Yes, as long as you don't actually read the bible, which includes 98% of xtians.

Evolution is evidence based, belief in the bible is taken on faith. Yes many religious people accept the fact of evolution. Religion is a la carte, hammer square pegs into round holes.

I voted yes, as I know many who claim to do just that. If you go only on evidence then the bible is out either way, so people just pick and choose.

My crazy over the top religious ex claims to. They say the buybull is not to be taken literally. It is inspired by god. To me it’s a cop out to further thier agenda to keep an educated flock from from saying” wtf?, this makes no sense”

My vote of "NO" implies an acceptance of the voracity of the Bible by the Christian, irrespective of the fact that there are hundreds, if not thousands of ways in which it has been interpreted.

Apart from all the stories of miracles that directly impinge on science, including biology, the two primary foundational beliefs that, as a Christian, I once found at variance with evolution are a) the story of Adam and his fall, and b) the concept of a soul, that may exist outside of our corporeal bodies.

a) If we accept evolution, we know that humans are evolved from earlier hominids, and lower forms, and that this process took place over millions of years. Knowing what we now know from anthropology, genetics and paleontology, to name but three disciplines, the story of the first humans found in Genesis simply cannot be true. And yet, it is this very story that binds Christianity. According to Paul, it was Adam’s original sin that called for the Plan of Salvation. And yet, from an evolutionary perspective, it is as foolish to attempt to identify when the first sin was committed as it is to identify when the first human male was evolved. The very reason for Christ’s sacrifice is obliterated by evolution. No Adam or Eve, no sin, no sacrifice, no atonement—no Christianity.

b) Secondly, most Christians accept the notion that we have a soul—Catholics and others even consider it a ‘divine spark’ or ‘sacred.’ But from an evolutionary perspective, how and when did these souls arise? Were early souls unsuccessful? Did they, like George Carlin’s Frisbeetarian souls, rise only a few feet and get stuck on the roof? Were early souls able to live for only a few hundred years following the destruction of their hosts? Did Neanderthals, Cro-Magnons and Australopithecines have souls? Did Lucy have a soul and is it still wandering the African plains, 3.2 million years later? Or is Lucy in heaven with God and Jesus, along with the souls of all the other ‘good’ hominids? Unless the Christian wants to believe that God interfered one day, and spliced in a ‘divine spark’ or soul to his chosen Adam and Eve, the entire non-existent science of soul evolution contradicts Christian teaching. Again I ask the Christian evolutionary biologist: how were souls evolved?

Yes, a person can believe in science and art at the same time. ( if you have the secret decoder ring )

Most religious people who have talked to who also believe in evolution simply attribute Evolution to God. They think it's a process that he created for the creatures of this world. Sort of a middle management thing I think.

If you understand that the fact of evolution is true then you must also understand that the story of original sin is fiction. That eliminates the reason for the crucifixion/resurrection story or any need for spiritual salvation.

yes. one would be a fool to do so, but one can say "the world was created in seven days; how long was a day back then? maybe a day was a billion years...."

it sounds ridiculous of course, and that's because it IS ridiculous. but it's possible. i don't mean possible that creationism is true; it plainly isn't. i mean possible to delude oneself that both evolution and creationism are true.

i will add that evolution chugs along whether or not there is even anyone around to believe it's doing so. it's not a belief system! it is a natural process.

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