What is the appeal of evolution?

My impression is that it was the science of geoplogy that really upset the religious applecart -- a bunch of (relatively amateur) geologists all got together and decided that the age of the earth was significantly older than any age derived from the bible -- and that this predated the publishing of Darwin's books (it was also information available to Darwin via friend Charles Lyell).The current 'fundamentalist' movement was founded in the USof(N)A well after Darwin's book, in the 1920's
Fundamentalist—Modernist controversy - WikipediaAs I understand it a lot of the amateur geologists were priests etc, and they also came to the same conclusions about the age of the earth.Why they should arbitrarily choose such an interpretation of great age in spite of their proper education in religion is another question - why couldn't they interpret it as an earlier age?Enjoy.

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It was the geologists that started it: by dating the world too old for creation, they thought they had found a way to deny god and force it onto everyone as a matter of facts.So then some reason had to be found for why it was so old, and it was the evolutionists that came up with the answer: it had to be old in order to provide enough time for microevolution to account for everything from the big bang to the origin of life.This could be key to why it is always evolution that is chosen as the theory to deny god with.

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Exactly. That's when it really started. It's one thing to kick the earth out of the center of the universe, but quite another to kick god out, and it takes more than just a theory to do that.This actually demonstrates that the evidence is lacking, as there was no concensus on the age of the earth, but still they needed a reason for an older earth, and that was found in evolution.Later when they looked in more detail they discovered they needed even more time than anyone had thought to allow for little variations to add up, and that is when the evoutionists went back to the geologists and asked them to give them more time.

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