[goldstategop]

Evolution describes the the processes of life. But its proponents take it a step further by assuming there is no God behind the origin of life. I do not think it is by accident the title of Darwin's famous opus is titled The Origin Of Species. If you begin with the concept God is unnecessary to the struggles of living things on earth, it is but a short step to the embrace of atheism. Now, if evolution allows for the existence of a divine creator, the most ardent defenders of the theory would want to welcome alternative explanations like Natural Design. The fact they do oppose it tooth and nail is an indication its far more than a scientific explanation to them; its an ideology and a world view. And only the ignorant and deluded can deny they have one.

[js1138]

If you begin with the concept God is unnecessary to the struggles of living things on earth, it is but a short step to the embrace of atheism.

Substitute earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, tornadoes, disease, famine and war for "the struggles of living things on earth" and the sentence reads the same and carries the same intellectual weight. Religion is not science, and if religious people insist on asserting themselves to be authorities on natural phenomena, they will look like fools and discredit their religion.

[ml1954]

Evolution describes the the processes of life. But its proponents take it a step further by assuming there is no God behind the origin of life.

Broad brush much?

[Dimensio]

But its proponents take it a step further by assuming there is no God behind the origin of life.

Not all who accept the theory of evolution make this assumption. You are employing an erroneous premise.

I do not think it is by accident the title of Darwin's famous opus is titled The Origin Of Species.

No one has suggested that the title of the book is an accident. It is quite clear intended for his book to have this tiile.

. If you begin with the concept God is unnecessary to the struggles of living things on earth, it is but a short step to the embrace of atheism.

While possibly true, this is a non-sequitur.

Now, if evolution allows for the existence of a divine creator, the most ardent defenders of the theory would want to welcome alternative explanations like Natural Design.

Only if such explanations were scientific. They are not, thus it is not honest to label them as science.