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Where in the bible does it say that organisms don't evolve?

Can anyone give me a specific verse?

Not just one verse but the whole paragraph.

Just reading one verse is inaccurate since it is too easy to miss interpret the big picture.

I don't have a bible so it would help it you could type it.

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  • A L
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    1 decade ago
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    It doesn't say anything about evolution. It has a lot to say about the nature of man and his problems.

  • 1 decade ago

    Genesis 1:1. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Genesis 1 & 2 talk about the creation. From doing a study on the genealogies, the Bible claims that the earth is about 6,000 years old. Therefore evolution contradicts it.

    Throughout the Bible it glorifies God as creator. If He would have used a sloppy process like evolution, then He is not very great.

    You won't find the word evolve in the Bible. You also won't find the word email in the Bible either. Those words weren't around when the Bible was written.

    If you want to look at the passage, try reading some online Bibles. I prefer the page to the screen, but If you want to read it online, then go for it.

  • 1 decade ago

    Adaptation is not unbiblical. I've never met a Christian or Jew who doesn't think God could have created organisms to adapt to changes in their environment. the issue is the origin of life. How did it get from nothing to something?

    [if you're curious, most Christians believe that God created organisms that look similar to the ones we see today--no macro evolution, 7 day creation. Many believe that the Days in the creation were MUCH longer than 24 hours, and that God used macro evolution to accomplish His creation. Neither is unbiblical. And since it's not a salvation issue, we don't do much debating on the matter. ]

    crosswalk.com has lots of different versions of the Bible. They're searchable, so you can put in keywords or a reference. Words like "evolution" won't be in there, because the term was created much later, but you can pull up Genesis 1 for the whole account. I'd recommend NASB (new american standard) over something more dense (KJV is OLD school ;) ESV, NIV, and NKJV are also readable. the Message and NLV are super easy, but they are paraphrases (not direct translations.

  • 1 decade ago

    The timeline in Genesis prevents evolution in a Biblical context.

  • 1 decade ago

    It doesn't really work because of the whole animal - human divide.

    If humans were once an 'animal' then we can't evolve to have a soul. So it's kind of a, this is how it was and this is how it'll be.

  • 1 decade ago

    Gen 1:20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

    Gen 1:21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

    Gen 1:22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

    Gen 1:23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

    Gen 1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

    Gen 1:25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

    Gen 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

    Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

    God created everything whole it did not evolve over million of years.

  • 1 decade ago

    The fact that the animals described then looked the same now.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    you really think those who wrote the bible knew about evolution?

  • 1 decade ago

    Where does it say they do?

    However, chapter 1 of Genesis clearly states that all creatures can ony reproduce their own kind. [Note: mutations are not evolution]. Here is what it says:

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    In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

    And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

    And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

    And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

    And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

    And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

    And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

    And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

    And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

    And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

    And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

    And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

    And the evening and the morning were the third day.

    And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

    And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

    And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

    And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

    And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

    And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

    And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

    And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

    And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

    And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

    And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

    And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

    And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

    So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

    And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

    And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

    And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

    And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

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