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Originally Posted by ardeegee
You certainly have proven my statement in post #11:
"But the overwhelming majority of the religious people chomping at the bit to "debate" and "disprove" evolution and other non-theistic things are pig-ignorant nitwits or slimebag liars or both."
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Point of contention, here: it's not "religious people" who have problems with evolution. It's specific sects of Christianity. (My religion has no problems with evolution and considers it a form of divine guidance of life on earth.) Although I grant that the ones who seek out discussions of evolution with an eye to 'disproving' anything tend to be ill-informed, hypocritical, and deliberately antagonistic.
The issue they have isn't with the idea of evolution per se, but with the blasphemous notion that it's
not over. Many Christians will agree that the creation myth in Genesis roughly equates to evolutionary stages -- ocean first, then crawling things, then bigger animals, and then mankind, which wound up with a kind of sentience that other animals don't have (as far as we can confirm). The clash between Christianity and evolution isn't with the gradual shifting of shapes (except for the 6000-year crowd, which is a pretty small group these days; most Christians are content for those "six days" to be "six god-days, which could be millions of years each"); it's with the fact that evolution says it's
still happening. Animals are still changing.
Mankind is still changing.
The Christian doctrine is that, after those six days (whether they are 24-hour days or billion-year days), YHVH *rested*, called it *done,* and the process stopped.
This is important only in dealing with non-Christian religious people who have no problems with evolution; a lot of people forget that the concept "evolution" is not incompatible with the concept of "gods."