[photodawg]

No kidding. What does that have to do with what I wrote?
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Your post demonstrates that you don't know what you are talking about. Creationist theories not only were never touched by evolution theory, but the theory of evolution is irrelevant to creationist theory. One is a scientific concept rooted in material objectivism,. The other is a belief system attempting to explain a metaphysical phenomenon. A "teacher" who says to a class in evolution that "people used to believe humans were created by God",would be implying that evolution is the scientific substitution for divine creation. He would be demonstrating that he did not understand the theory of evolution at all. No scientist would argue that evolution created life.

[Darkwolf377]

Your post demonstrates that you don't know what you are talking about. Creationist theories not only were never touched by evolution theory, but the theory of evolution is irrelevant to creationist theory. One is a scientific concept rooted in material objectivism,. The other is a belief system attempting to explain a metaphysical phenomenon. A "teacher" who says to a class in evolution that "people used to believe humans were created by God",would be implying that evolution is the scientific substitution for divine creation. He would be demonstrating that he did not understand the theory of evolution at all. No scientist would argue that evolution created life.

Please note where I ever said it did. I didn't. If you have no idea how evolution--a scientific theory as to where humans came from--had a revolutionary effect on belief that humans came from a creator, you are completely and totally out of it.

Do you need it spelled out? Because I wrote as if I were having a discussion with someone who knew at least a little about the subject.

When Nietzsche had one of his characters say "God is dead" he was saying that the casual acceptance in European culture that God was the be-all and end-all and the only answer to all questions or whatever was dead. More than one thing contributed to this massive body-blow the Christian idea of God took, but evolution was a MAJOR contributor to that.

To spell it out very clearly, no, I am not saying Christianity died when that happened, so don't even try that silly "gotcha" stuff again. I am saying that the power of the church has never recovered from the battering it took in the 19th century, and the wider dissemination of the theory of evolution (which in fact preceded Darwin's most famous writings) was a large part of that.

You can go on denying that, but you're gonna look really silly. Have fun.