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To: Dog Gone
There are many people who believe in the theory of evolution who also believe in God and consider themselves Christians.

One has to wonder how Christians can agree with evolution when the purpose of evolution - an attack on Christian beliefs - is so brilliantly displayed by this article.

201 posted on 03/10/2002 8:10:12 PM PST by gore3000
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To: gore3000
One has to wonder how Christians can agree with evolution when the purpose of evolution - an attack on Christian beliefs - is so brilliantly displayed by this article.

This article was markedly anti-Christian. No doubt about that.

But the author doesn't speak for everyone who accepts evolution as fact, any more than the Rev. Al Sharpton speaks for all Christians.

The purpose of evolution is not to attack Christian beliefs, and I can't imagine that you meant that statement literally. The Theory seeks to explain all available evidence on the basis of the evidence, not any pre-existing religious or theological belief. The theory is indifferent to Christian beliefs in the same way that the theories of gravity or relativity are.

I assume that you see evolution as an attack on your Christian beliefs, but this is certainly a case where that judgment is in the eye of the beholder, namely you.

I don't have any problem believing in both evolution and Christianity. That requires me to believe that the creation accounts in the book of Genesis are allegorical, but that would be obvious to me regardless.

Christians can easily accept evolution as fact. I'd argue that they should, except that I'm indifferent as to what people privately choose to believe.

211 posted on 03/11/2002 4:58:57 AM PST by Dog Gone
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