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Originally Posted by photon
I've said this before, it doesn't CLAIM to be. All evolution does is provide a natural mechanism to explain a natural phenomenon.
Evolution explaining diversity of life doesn't confirm or falsify God, it just shows that God didn't create all the animals in an act of special creation, just like understanding how lightning works doesn't falsify Zeus, it just means that lightning isn't caused by Zeus hurling them down from heaven.
It only falsifies god if your definition of god requires evolution be false, which does not describe all Christians but does describe a small but vocal group of them.
Atheism isn't a philosophical outlook or a moral code or a system of beliefs, it's the lack of belief in a god. It seems to me that you are doing what you accuse others of doing; just lumping a bunch of people together and saying how they are wrong. Not all atheists discount philosophy, not all atheists ignore the impact religion has.
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I'm not attacking atheism per se, just the common liberal humanist interpretation espoused by most people nowadays. The point of my post is that there are far deeper methods by which to explore the depth of the gods than to merely point to natural selection as the great disclaimer.
Trust me, I know my evolutionary theory, interesting but kind of useless in the philosophical sense, as far as I am concerned.
The real point of discussion is the gods as human revelation, not the gods as materialist creators.