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1. Why does it have to be ‘Creation versus evolution’? I am agnostic and believe in a creator or creators, but also believe in evolution as well. I see no reason why they must be exclusive of each other. I believe that if there is a creator, then one of the tools he/she/they used was evolution. Perhaps God created the evolutional jumps through pre-programming of DNA, and used/allowed natural selection to produce the best results.
You claim to be an Agnostic, but you proclaim a Deist view. That point is irrelevant to evolution. There are several views accepted by those on the Evo side, your view, the chem-bio view and panspremia. Evolution starts after one of the above occurred or some other procedure occurred. The opposite side, creo, tries to lump abiogenesis & evolution together claiming that neither occurred and that there was a special creation that put all living things here as fully formed entities without a nested hierarchy.
Some of the creos accept what they call microevolution, that is changes in a species but no speciation.
Most Atheists, Agnostics, Deists and Many moderate Theists accept what the creos call macroevolution, that is speciation.
That is basically why it is Evolution vs Creation.
There is no better love between 2 people than mutual respect for each other WT Young, 2002
Who gave anyone the authority to call me an authority on anything. WT Young, 1969
Since Evolution is only ~90% correct it should be thrown out and replaced by Creation which has even a lower % of correctness. W T Young, 2008
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