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I can see now why this can create confusion but try to think of it as if I had asked atheistic plumbers.
In fact, this clarifies it quite well. You're asking the plumbers why they're atheists. This differs quite dramatically from accusing the methodology of plumbing itself of being atheistic or making people atheists.
Quite literally, the methodology of plumbing, and evolution, and anything else aspiring to be scientific is essentially atheistic. Would you want your plumber to tell you that your garbage disposal is possessed by demons? Or that mere hydraulics is insufficient to explain the complexity of household plumbing systems, etc.? There's obviously no reason to include a deity in plumbing. Why is it okay for certain methodolgies to be atheistic and not others?
The dark nursery of evolution is very dark indeed.
Brad McFall
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