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The best message in this thread. Thank you!

 

If you replace 'evolution' with 'naturalism', I agree with you. This is the worldview of people like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, and they are very aggressive and intolerant atheists. Their goal is, indeed, to convince others that there is no God, and they are evangelists for their cause. They interpret evolution and abiogenesis and cosmology and plenty of other things (morality, education, ...) to suit their own purposes, and I am willing to stand up and be counted against them. Evolution, on the other hand, is the widely accepted theory for how complex life forms emerged from simple life forms, nothing more. It's science, not philosophy. It's limited in scope, not all-encompassing.

 

It is a very important issue. Millions of our county's children are being taught evolution. They are being taught in a way that discredits GOD's involvement.

They are taught that there is no God, we evolved.

As Christians we have the obligation to argue against evolution being taught that way to our PS kids. We are to help others find Christ, not discredit Him.

 

ha ha ha still it makes no sense to me whatsoever that something complex would randomly evolve from something simple.

Just seems like me in the kitchen lol

 

They are NOT taught there is no God! Many Christians are biology teachers in the PS system. They teach science, not philosophy or faith. For sure, some individual teachers may have an ax to grind, but that's just life - that's not policy.

Does teaching about gravity imply there is no God? In Newton's time, most people believed that the hand of God kept planets in their orbits and that angels applied the necessary pressure. I'm sure that some felt the mysterious force of gravity was designed to prove there is no God. Indeed, if we put ourselves in their shoes, it's very likely they thought that way. That's because new ideas, and particularly new data, challenge the status quo, and sometimes it needs to be challenged.

Evolution does not in any way imply there is no God. Instead, for those of us who accept it, it reveals just how creative and imaginative and intimate and detail-oriented is the being behind it all. He doesn't create people out of thin air. Instead, he creates a most wonderful process that results in a huge variety of species - many of which we're probably still unaware of. There is no religion in evolution; it's pure science - just as with gravity. Nonetheless, the eye of faith can see beyond it to the splendor of the creator.

If we examine our own character, we can see just a glimpse of this. We love to tinker and meddle. We love to build. It would be no fun to simply wish things into existence.

 

Thank heaven that life didn't come about based on my antics in the kitchen. Instead of starting with "formless and void", we'd have ended up that way.

 

ha ha sounds like my bread, heavy and black lol

 

Not to get off topic here, but I have often thought the same thing myself.
I was taught the idea that Heaven would have no 'work'.
I am a little unsure about that, goodness I hope there is work there, or what will we do?
If there is no hunger, why eat?
Pretty soon everything is meaningless and leads to the 'sitting on a cloud playing the harp' mentality. Not me!
I am gonna DO something! need your cloud fluffed?

 

So according to the best evidence that our illustrious modern science can provide, the verdict is pronounced: There is no way that heaven and earth could have been created in six literal days.

And by the same token, there is no way that bumble bees can fly, because the best scientists know that their wings are far too small to generate enough lift, given their weight. It's a lift to weight ratio impossibility.

And because we can't explain yet how God did it, this means He is out to deceive us?