Again, as I've read it, the main purpose of it was ridding Spain of Islam, and I cannot blame anybody for wanting to do that.
Other than that, evolution amounts to claims that life arose from inanimate matter via a series of fortuitous accidents, and that afterwards, progressively more complex and sophisticated life forms arose via mutation and "natural selection". Aside from denying any role in the creation of life to God or anything outside our material world, this doctrine denies any basis for ethics, Christian or otherwise, as Sir Arthur Keith notes. The only conception of "good" which there could logically be under such a system, would be things leading to the evolutionary success of the particular group in question.
Again, Christianity and evolution are utterly incompatible.
Evolution makes no such claim. In fact evolution makes no claim at all about how life arose. In that respect, it's compatible with the idea that God created life.
more complex and sophisticated life forms arose via mutation and "natural selection".I can't argue with this statement, but you notice it says nothing about whether or not God played a role. God could have caused the appropriate mutations, for example, and then natural selection ensured that these mutations survived in the gene pool of a given organism.
denying any role in the creation of life to God or anything outside our material world, this doctrine denies any basis for ethics, Christian or otherwise, as Sir Arthur Keith notes. The only conception of "good" which there could logically be under such a system, would be things leading to the evolutionary success of the particular group in question.
Again, evolution neither denies nor affirms a role for God or anything outside the material realm. Evolution is neutral on this subject because it's a scientific theory. God is outside of the scope of science. Evolution says nothing whatsoever about ethics. Evolution simply says that those creatures who have traits that are best suited to their environments will be the ones that pass those traits on, and therefore those will be the traits that are commonly found in a given species. It doesn't say that this is good, bad or otherwise. It is not an ethical judgement. Even given that this does represent an ethical judgement, it does not logically follow that the only "good" will be an out and out cutthroat competition among organisms of a given species. Those traits that are most beneficial to the SPECIES are the ones that will be selected. Altruism, symbiosis, justice and other such traits can have benefit from a purely evolutionary perspective. Furthermore, none of this is an argument against evolution. Even if evolution is completely and utterly evil, it still could be true. Evolution may be contradictory to your personal beliefs, but it most certainly is not contradictory to Christianity in general. If that's not true, then please show me the logical contradiction between the idea that species arise from changing allele frequencies in a population's gene pool and the idea that Jesus Christ is the son of God who died on the cross to redeem our sins. As far as I can tell, that statement is pretty much the only thing on which ALL Christians can agree. Everything else is doctrinal arguments, which is a religious, not a scientific question.