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Author Topic:   How can theists believe in Darwinian evolution?
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Message 1 of 2 (568032)
07-04-2010 1:02 AM


This is a question that to me is puzzling in it's logic.
There are people who proclaim themselves to be Christian, or holding other similar faiths, who believe 100% in Darwinian evolution. It makes no sense at all to me. One tenet of such religions is that there is a soul, or at least a connection between the human and its God-a connection that differs from a connection that exists between an insect or other being, and a God. So how can one believe this? Is it through ignorance of the meaning of Darwinian evolution, is it through denial, or is it rational in someway that is not readily apparent.
Afterall, if humans came to be through natural, unguided mechanisms, how in the world could there be a soul? And have can humans have a unique relationship with a God, when there was never any plan for any of us to exist anyway, and we are absolutely no different from any other living being including plants and bacteria- other than our complexity-which is really just an illusion anyway. God decided to develop a relationship with humans AFTER he found out, to his surprise that this sentient being arrived out of the chaos? That seems like a silly joke.
How can people like Kenneth Miller and the like even begin to address this? I have no clue-but it strikes me as idiotic.

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07-04-2010 5:19 AM


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