I don’t post on these threads much, as I really don’t see any point. However: Why does evolution preclude the existence of God? I believe in both, and see no reason why they’re incompatible.
I totally agree with you. I realize that much of what motivates the anti-evolutionary movement is religious in nature. But an argument is true or false regardless of the motivation of the arguer.
==Why does evolution preclude the existence of God?
It contradicts the creation account in the Bible, it contradicts the Bible on how sin entered the world, it contradicts the effects of sin (death, disease, suffering, etc), and it contradicts science (which is an investigation of God’s creation).
Although we keep hearing that, in practice, the teaching of evolution in the public school system is required by the staunch evos to be totally Godless. If it's true that many believe that the two are compatible, then why the furor when any attempt to mention God and evolution in the same sentence, or even the same setting?
Basically, though, anyone who believes that God and evolution are compatible, is an IDer.
Don't lose sight of the forest b/c of all the trees.
History moves forward, never backward. Since the dawn of history the race of man has weathered massive changes to his world; discoveries that kick up a lot of dust in their wake.
Over time -- and through much sturm und drang --the human race itself to these changes, i.e., the discovery/harnessing of fire; the invention/usage of the wheel; the compass; the printing press; discovery of new world; electricity; the internal combustion engine; birth control pills.
Today we are living through yet another massive change: the computer.
And, as per usual, a great deal of dust is being kicked up, but than it always has. In time and over time human society will adjust. The dust will settle just as it always has. The past is morphing into the future in a big,big way and we --and our thoughts, hopes, fears, plans and dreams-- are caught up in the whirl wind.
LOL! Or, as mothers everywhere would say, "It's just a phase we're going through."
I'm an evo-skeptic but the quick answer is that evolution and God are not incompatible. One of the best known critics of Darwinism -- which claims all life is definitively explained solely through natural selection acting on random changes to the genome -- is Michael Behe, a Catholic who accepts common descent.
Check out Uncommon Descent William Dembski's site. Those posting likely as not hold your view.
If you believe in god, why have you not read his word?
In it he tells us over 100 times that all creatures have reproduced after their own kind. Evolution would also remove Christ as our kinsman redeemer, since there would be no Adam. Are you ready to pay for your own sins?