There's been a lot of criticism of Darwinism as somehow leading to atheism, or at least a non-literal interpretation of a few verses of Scripture.
Granted it's not exactly Christian, but doesn't Darwin lead us to the conclusion that we're related to **ALL OTHER LIVING THINGS**. I personally find this awe-inspiring and highly spiritual.
Any comments?
Yeah... Porsches and Volkswagons are pretty much related to eachother also; in fact early Porsches used a lot of VolksWagon parts and Porsche owners regularly saved money buying parts from VW dealers rather than from Porsche dealers. That does not mean that Porsches evolved from Volkswagaons via a series of lucky accidents; the Porsche was essentially re-engineered from the VW. Likewise, higher and more complex lifeforms appear to show genetic engineering and re-engineering. Evolutionists try to thrive on a salesmanship thing in which they try to insist that all evidence of change is evidence of evolutionary change and anybody who doesn't buy that is some sort of a reactionary bible-thumping fundamentalist. Don't listen to em. The biggest group of anti-evolutionists is probably mathematicians, and not fundamentalist Christians. Evolutionism amounts to an endless series of gross violations of the laws of probability; nobody with brains and talent buys it any longer.
Granted it's not exactly Christian, but doesn't Darwin lead us to the conclusion that we're related to **ALL OTHER LIVING THINGS**. I personally find this awe-inspiring and highly spiritual. No, that's not correct. In Christianity, all living things are related through God the Creator. In evolution, in materialism, living things are just part of chemical process. Let's remember that according to materialists we are just a fortuitous conjunction of chemicals. In a way therefore we are not only related to living things but also to rocks, to gases, to water, to minerals and even to pond scum. I do not see anything very spiritual in that.
I would like to hear from you what spirituality there is in the following from Darwin's "On the Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life":
a Ratio of Increase so high as to lead to a Struggle for Life, and as a consequence to Natural Selection, entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less-improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows.