You can be a Christian and believe in evolution

Thanks for the arguments Con.ResolutionAccording to the resolution of this debate, Con isn't supposed to be arguing that evolution and Christian and views are contradictory, but rather that one cannot hold both views. As I pointed out in the last round, one can still hold contradictory views. Con's position is saying that one cannot hold both views at the same time, but many people already hold both views. In fact, about 1 in 4 Americans believe God guided evolution[1], so Con's stance on the subject is a bit illogical. However, since Con seems to be arguing that the two views are contradictory, I will address those points. The judges must keep in mind though that the Con position of this resolution is virtually impossible to uphold.LiteralismMany Christians interpret the Bible in a very literal sense, such as believing that the world was created in 24-hour 7 day period and that the world is 7,000 years old (young earth creationism). Others believe in a scientific interpretation of the Old Testament, such as that the world was created in a period of millions of years and that the plants and animals of the world were created through the natural processes of macroevolution (theistic evolution). Even if one believes in the literal interpretation, that doesn't mean that the other interpretations are contradictory, or rather that those people cannot hold those views.Genesis 1Theistic evolutionists have a range of beliefs of how Adam and Eve came to be. One belief is that Adam and Eve were not literal humans, but represented humanity when homosapiens had developed a certain level of awareness and intelligence that made them able to have a level of understanding to comprehend God, unlike the near-human Neanderthals. Another belief is that when Neanderthals had evolved far enough, God saw that it was time was fit for Adam and Eve to inhabit human-like bodies. Either way, neither of these views contradict the Genesis account, or at least not the very literal creationist interpretation of Genesis 1."If God wanted man to evolve from an animal, then why did he even create man?""Why" is irrelevant to this topic. If we were to discuss "why", we would branch off into an entirely different topic that has nothing to do with evolution and Christianity."The Bible says that God just spoke and it happened."The fact that the Bible says "God spoke" does not mean that life occurred immediately. Even if it does, 2 Peter 3:8 tells us that God's perception of time is different than ours: "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."Reproduction"What you're saying is that evolution doesn't happen overnight, it happens over millions of years, so why haven"t any apes changed into a human yet. If it takes millions of years, at least a few apes should be human, right?"I'm not sure what you're asking here. I initially said that because evolution is a process that takes millions of years, then the misconception that a "dog simply turned into a donkey" is false. I showed above how the Biblical account of the creation and the evolutionary theory are both compatible.ResemblanceCon drops this argument and goes on a rant about how evolution is a lie without providing any evidence to back up this assertion.ConclusionI have refuted all of my opponent's objections and have established that the Genesis account of the world's beginning and the evolutionary account are not contradictory if the Biblical account is not taken too literal. Even so, one can still hold contradictory beliefs, which is why it is impossible for Con to uphold that stance successfully. Source[1] http://www.pewresearch.org...