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Originally Posted by Kipper is King
For me, evolution and God never are such a big squabble.
Evolution happened.
God exists.
Those two things in my mind are both true, and they do not cancel out each other. Why can't we say that while evolution did occur, it happened because God made it occur? Just because God may exist does not mean that science goes out the window, but the fact that empirical sciences "work" does not mean in my mind that God is not out there, or did not create us.
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Of course they don't cancel each other out. It's not scientists that place evolution in opposition with God, it's young earth creationists with their agenda. They say that evolution is evil and a ploy to corrupt people and lead them away from God. They work to have evolution either removed from school, or barring that placing other things in the science classroom to undermine evolution based on their religious view.
Most Christians don't have a problem with evolution, it's a very vocal minority of Biblical literalists that cannot abide the creation myth being a myth, or abide the idea that a global flood didn't happen that are the ones that equivocate evolution and atheism and place God and evolution at odds with each other.
What's at odds isn't God and evolution, it's evolution and blind adherence to a specific interpretation of scripture.
This is always my question to people who, in a discussion about evolution, suddenly start talking about God not existing.. why do some Christians have to equivocate evolution and atheism?
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Originally Posted by Kipper is King
Why can't we say that while evolution did occur, it happened because God made it occur?
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I guess, if you mean in the same way that God made gravity occur. No one thinks that God takes an active role in making you fall down if you trip, same thing with evolution... the laws of the universe are conducive to it. More of a deist kind of God though.