atheism and children

[Alex K]

We call things evil because of our evolutionary instincts, not anything else. "God", in this case, while still being nothing more but the most unfortunate fictional character in the history of literature, is evil because he's supposed to be omnipotent yet people die and life isn't perfect. It's that easy.

But that would still be by your own definition, opinion or feeling of what is evil. Evolutionary ethics is nothing but pragmatism. Even Darwin admitted that if the philosophical out workings were to be made of his theory the future is nothing short of unbridled violence.

You are confusing two completely different things which you must never ever confuse: 1. how human nature and the resulting peaceful constructive, but also destructive character traits arose through our evolution by natural selection as a social species, a process which is described by the neodarwinian synthesis (at least in principle), and 2. what it would look like if we were to imitate nature in the planning and construction of our society, something you call "evolutionary ethics" to somehow shift the blame to a scientific theory - which makes no sense - when it is actually simply your God's shameful way of doing business as witnessed by science.

And let me stress that Darwin's theory and its modern versions are not possibly a guide how to behave but a faithful description of how nature around us behaves, in the same way Einsteinian Gravity theory is not an instruction to push your granny down the stairs.

If you have a problem with "the consequences of Darwin", you are having a problem with the cruelty of nature - in that case welcome to the club. The difference between atheists and you is that we can actually acknowledge that nature is an unmitigated disaster, and consequently work on improving the situation, whereas you Christians somehow still have to believe that it's cool the way it is, making excuses for your imagined abusive tyrant who lets his creation suffer. Many atheists feel that nature is cruel and proceed to do something about it. Christians do too, of course, but you guys first have to overcome this sick idea that somehow creation deserves it, as evidenced by the stockholmesque excuses you make for the cruelty of your God upthread, and what reads to me almost like a declaration of ethical bankrupcy.