I believe evolution may explain a lot about species origins ... but not necessarily everything.
Certainly not the origin of life, the origin of the universe, etc. Evolution is vastly over-hyped as to it's scientific importance and is used to push atheism and nihilism.
See Dawkins,Dennett, Coyne, Provine or any of the new atheists.
Naturalistic evolution has clear consequences that Charles Darwin understood perfectly. 1) No gods worth having exist; 2) no life after death exists; 3) no ultimate foundation for ethics exists; 4) no ultimate meaning in life exists; and 5) human free will is nonexistent." ( Provine W.B., "Evolution: Free will and punishment and meaning in life." Abstract of Prof. William B. Provine's 1998 " Darwin Day address, "Darwin Day" website, University of Tennessee Knoxville TN, 1998).
Why should there even BE a Darwin day? It's pretty weird isn't it. ,Ever hear of an Isaac Newton day? Because evolution has religious significance for atheists/agnostics.
I am willing to concede the possibility that a god created the universe and all its laws of nature at the time of the big bang
Okay, some (like the folks I mentioned) would say that makes you a creationist.
and has not been an influence ever since.
And why if a being went to the trouble of starting a universe suited for life, would that being be indifferent to his creation?
Richard Lewontin is famous for this:
"Our willingness to accept scientific claims that are against common sense is the key to an understanding of the real struggle between science and the supernatural. We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door."
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He has a point and he's honest about his prior commitment. |
