(June 3, 2016 at 12:04 pm)Lek Wrote: What a deep comment! Why only go back to the ape. Maybe you should say that God is actually the force that created the first element that evolved through the ages into the ape and then into a man. When the bible speaks of being made in the "image of God" it's speaking of our spiritual image. God took on our physical image as Jesus.
Well it may not be deep but it's defeneatly smarter then yours. Why would an omnipotent and loving God who directed evolution would lead it into so many dead ends? After all, over 99 percent of the species that ever lived went extinct without leaving descendants. The cruelty of natural selection, which involves endless wastage and pain, also demands explanation. Wouldn’t a loving and all-powerful God simply have produced all existing species, as described in Genesis?
And, of course, if God gets the credit for the adaptive mutations that led to humans, then what about mutations that cause cancers, genetic diseases, and deformed children? If mutation were a process designed by God, there’s no reason why the vast majority of mutations should be harmful—though that’s exactly what you’d expect if the process were purely a naturalistic one involving random errors.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
