FreethinkingSceptic Wrote:why do atheists care about evolution so much?
What does this even mean?
FreethinkingSceptic Wrote:God could have created a system in which evolution gave rise to human life, with that being the goal all along.
He could, just like aliens or Muppets could have created people by evolution, but there is no evidence for that. Evolution is a very inefficient way for some determined creator. All those billions of years of the universe developing stars, and then all those species of life forms that died by trial and error just so we can exist after 14 billion years as a planned pinnacle of creation is just nonsense.
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"
