From whence does dignity or sanctity spring? From an ever changing, randomly mutating DNA strand? There is no dignity, no sanctity, no law apart from a Creator. Any ideas you may have about dignity or sanctity have meaning only with respect to an Authority.
I said: “Nothing Darwin describes takes away from the dignity and sanctity of human life.”
You said: “There is no dignity, no sanctity, no law apart from a Creator.”
Yes. Sanctity is by definition derived from Godliness, but human life is not Creator but Created, and it has a dignity and worth. So God’s creation’s have dignity and that is not taken away even if a theory springs up about species.
Your argument is more against atheism than evolutionary theory.
” Any ideas you may have about dignity or sanctity have meaning only with respect to an Authority.”
I agree. My point is that a description that tries to explain the fact that some species have come and gone doesn’t take away from that. One can believe in God and still see evolution, like gravity or the weak atomic force, as a part of that Creation.
Such a belief reconciles both common-sense understanding of science and value-based faith in God.