Trey of Diamonds
Well-Known Member
christianity and islam believe that god created us, we weren't formed by chance. nothing is formed by chance. i do not see how most people that i have met around in RF beleive that everything was created from chance. chance is nothing, it's a probability, now god, thats something. god has powers. chance has no powers. evolution starts of with chance and finishes with natural selection. believing in evolution is way more complicated than believing in god.
But you are limiting evolution to the Athiests version. What about the belief that God set evolution in motion? Could God not have started the process billions of years ago? Everyone likes to claim hes so powerful but can't comprehend him creating evolution as a process to get from one point to another. All your arguements center around evolution as guided by chance. Well, what if the process is guided by God instead. Is it still a lie?
Fundamentalist reject the idea of evolution mostly because it interfers with their literal interpretation of the bible which states the earth was created in 7 days and the fact that we evolved from apes is uncomfortable for them. If God is behind evolution then our coming from apes is his process and therefore we are his creation as is everything. But that doesn't follow the literal interpretation of the bible so it can't be tolerated.
Note: The above concepts are not my personal beliefs but rather how some non-fundamentalist Christians have explained evolution to me. I think its a wonderful rationalization.