Evolutionism is an ideology. It is a worldview through which facts are filtered in order to exclude a Creator.
It renders the sacrifice of Christ as meaningless, since that sacrifice was made to conquer Sin and Death.
If Death, the engine of natural selection, is God's means for humankind to emerge from less sentient species, then Christ is unnecessary.
If Man was not CREATED in the Image and Likeness of God, then there is no basis for any moral code other than convenience and opinion.
Evolutionism makes morality subject to the vicissitudes of popular culture.
Evolutionism denies absolute Truth outside of Evolutionism.
Evolutionsm is at the head of a logical trail that goes like this.
I used to believe that.
But as the beneficiary of Biblical scale miracles in my own life, and the witness of God in all that I experienced since giving my life to Jesus, I can not subscribe to any of these premises any more.
In fact, I see them as patently absurd.
OK, THAT post includes much I disagree with.
>>It renders the sacrifice of Christ as meaningless, since that sacrifice was made to conquer Sin and Death.<<
NOTHING man do diminishes God or Christ or their Works.
>>If Man was not CREATED in the Image and Likeness of God, then there is no basis for any moral code other than convenience and opinion.<<
So if we don’t look God you think we have no need to follow His laws or love our neighbors? I find it much more important that God sent his son in our form to know our condition - when we suffer doubt or temptation or pain - He understands because he has experienced it. God true form doesn’t have to look human for me to have faith.
>>Evolutionism denies absolute Truth outside of Evolutionism.<<
Your giving evolution too much credit - its not nearly that broad - it doesn’t say where life came from or talk about how the universe came into being or say that there is (or isn’t a God). There is all kinds of truth it doesn’t relate to.
Boiled down it says that on this planet the fossil and DNA record shows that life evolved from simpler life to a variety of complex life and then it goes on to try to explain the mechanisms.
As with all science it the best estimate to explain the available data. People can misuse it like they can misuse fire but that doesn’t make evolution either good or bad.
Actually, it was intended for retMD, who also doesn't seem to think that ideas have consequences.
Where did you get that from? I'm very concerned with the economic consequences of deciding ideology trumps scientific fact. I mentioned Lysenkoism because it did have a consequence - the soviets fell behind in biological sciences because they latched on to a theory that supported their ideology, but was clearly disproved by facts.
Evolutionism is an ideology. It is a worldview through which facts are filtered in order to exclude a Creator.
No, evolution is a scientific theory. What people make of it to exclude a creator is their own problem. You can proclaim it an ideology, but that doesn't make it so.