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Author Topic:   How do you define the Theory of Evolution?
Phat
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Message 78 of 93 (813794)
06-30-2017 2:57 PM
Reply to: Message 77 by dwise1
06-30-2017 1:25 PM


Equating the ToE with Atheism
I googled a few articles and found this one:
Does Accepting Evolution Require Atheism?
Basically, the answer is not necessarily.
ThoughtCo writes:
Although it is true that evolution is not about the origins of life, and hence the way is left open for a god to be thought responsible for that, the fact remains that the process of evolution itself is incompatible with so many of the attributes traditionally ascribed to God in the West.
Why would the god of Christianity, Judaism or Islam produce us humans through a process which has required such untold death, destruction, and suffering over the course of hundreds of millennia? Indeed, what reason is there to think that we humans are the purpose of life on this planet we've only taken up a small fraction of time here. If we were to use time or quantity and a standard of measurement, other life forms are much better candidates for the "purpose" of terrestrial life; moreover, maybe the "purpose" is yet to come and we are but one more stage on that path, no more or less important than any other.
Thus while accepting evolution may not cause atheism or even necessarily make atheism more likely, there is a good chance that it will at least force a revision of what one thinks about their theism.
By making humans no more special than pond scum, a revision of our relationship with a Creator is inevitably contemplated.
Edited by Phat, : No reason given.

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