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Originally Posted by AcGold
It creates a dichotomy and is now a mongrelized term associated with its counterpoint creationism. The idea of evolution makes sense, there is sense and research to back it up but the argument loses ground when it excludes the possibility of anything other than deterministic physical law. The debate between the two creates a polarity of philosophy that is unnecessary. Its foolish to claim one knows everything about spirituality when the debate becomes defined by deism vs atheism. The flaw is not in the ideas or evidence supporting it but in the close minded view of many of its professors much like Catholicism. Its followers misrepresent the complexity of reality and define it with rigid absolutes. No room for esotericism, spirituality or intuition; only deism or atheism.
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Nothing you posted has anything to do with a flaw in the evolutionary theory itself. Secondly, to the bolded section, the theory of evolution makes no claim whatsoever about spirituality.
As for the evolution vs. creationism dichotomy you lament, who created it? As has been stated several times in this thread previously, believing in a supernatural god or gods and accepting the scientific validity of the theory of evolution are not mutually-exclusive concepts to anyone other than extremist young earth creationists and Biblical literalists.