What you say is true. However, many bad things, are done in the name of something good. Just because the theory of evolution is used to justify bad things, does not mean that the theory itself is bad.
Jesus himself was crucified in the name of religion. The faith itself isn’t bad, only the way people chose to use it.
There are many deeply religious people, who abhor abortion and euthanasia, but do not reject the theory of evolution. For many, evolution is not incompatible with either the Bible or their religious beliefs. The theory of evolution is not compatible with a strictly literal interpretation of some translations of the Bible. For other interpretations, it is completely compatible. Evolution is not responsible for the moral decline of our society, but maybe those who misinterpret it to mean that God does not exist are.
“There are many deeply religious people, who abhor abortion and euthanasia, but do not reject the theory of evolution. For many, evolution is not incompatible with either the Bible or their religious beliefs. The theory of evolution is not compatible with a strictly literal interpretation of some translations of the Bible. For other interpretations, it is completely compatible. Evolution is not responsible for the moral decline of our society, but maybe those who misinterpret it to mean that God does not exist are.” ~ ga medic
Three items out of many that will back you up:
Re: American Scientific Affiliation * Whatever happened to its mission?
From: Terry M. Gray grayt@lamar.colostate.edu
Date: Tue Apr 24 2007 - 13:07:18 EDT
“... I wrote my review of Phil Johnson’s Darwin on Trial in 1992 http:// www.asa3.org/gray/evolution_trial/dotreview.html
I applauded, welcomed, and joined the attack on atheistic materialism. I did spend some time criticizing some of the anti-evolutionary arguments.
In late 1993 I became involved with Phil’s evolution reflector and actively advocated my pro-evolutionary creation viewpoint with all the key players of the ID movement—Johnson, Behe, Nelson, Wells—I don’t remember Dembski being part of that round of discussion. I interacted with Mike Behe extensively during this period and as a result was invited to “debate” Mike at the ASA meeting at Bethel College in the summer of 1994. I still remember the greeting I got from several of the reflector participants upon meeting me, “Ah..., so you’re Terry Gray.” That interaction with Mike is also on-line at http://www.asa3.org/evolution/irred_compl.html
Serious discussions between us came to an end in the spring of 1994 when Phil ... “ [snip] Continue here: http://www.calvin.edu/archive/asa/200704/0439.html
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Re: [asa] anti-evolutionism and deism
From: Terry M. Gray grayt@lamar.colostate.edu
Date: Fri Apr 20 2007 - 16:32:21 EDT
http://www.calvin.edu/archive/asa/200704/0382.html
So, on this topic, I’ll point those who might be interested and who haven’t seen it yet to my paper given at the ASA meeting a few years ago in a symposium on God’s interaction with creation. http://www.asa3.org/gray/GrayASA2003OnHodge.html
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From: “Terry M. Gray” grayt@lamar.colostate.edu
Subject: Re: [asa] Global Anti-Darwinism
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:16:14 -0600
To: AmericanScientificAffiliation asa@calvin.edu
http://www.calvin.edu/archive/asa/200704/0425.html
[ Excerpt: “... Additionally, issues of geometric constraints of biological form, ideas of self-organization, constraints of historical development, etc. are non-Darwinian principles at work in evolution. I’ve spelled out some of these in my critique of Mike Behe’s book - on the web at http://www.asa3.org/evolution/irred_compl.html - and in Loren Haarsma’s and my chapter in Perspectives on an Evolving Creation entitled “Complexity, Self-Organization, and Design”. One of the reasons that I was such a fan of Stephen J. Gould was his sensitivity to these other aspects of evolution. ..” ]
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