It really scares me.

[Mudhammam]

We ought to be running around naked on the Savannah being eaten by lions, but because as we're made "in Gods image" we can do a great deal more we're not limited by our environment.

You see everyone, Darwin was brilliantly correct in thinking that complex life could evolve from simple forms, and this very well explains how life diversified from microbes to chimpanzees and dolphins and everything else; however, for those fire-wielding cave dwellers to arrive, natural selection would not suffice. Instead, a Special Act of Creation was required!

So while you can still be an atheist and that's a valid position you can't use the universe itself and what we know of it to support your world view as this would work perfectly well as a deliberate creation of an omnipotent creator God or as a random physical byproduct of some kind that just happened to be the way it is for no real significant reason.

The Bible has been thoroughly discredited by science (oops! Those incorrect portions were actually meant to be read as metaphor all along!) Once you concede that the Bible is demonstrably false, whacky, and self-contradictory, what else do you have to go on? Philosophical theology?

We can survive anywhere on the planets surface even down the deepest ocean trench, yes in a submersible vehicle but if our intellect/adaptability to the natural world is derived from being made in the mental/spiritual image of God that will still count.

Indeed, Mars must have been designed specifically for us too, right? Of course, only once we gained scientific knowledge and developed spaceships and suits!

Yes so we evolved but if this form of evolution was intentionally set up from the beginning then we were intentionally made. We didn't have be directly or instantly made by God in the Adam and Eve sense. A lengthy process of gradual/natural formation is perfectly fine and you can read Genesis as a process of formation in a sequence of stages leading up to intelligent beings.

Way to totally misunderstand the theory of evolution and the power of natural selection/adaptation.

Genesis wasn't necessarily written as a literal scientific/historical account to begin with as it seems quite heavily symbolic and full of metaphor and there were certainly theologians who read it this way even back in the early centuries AD. Read it in this context and you won't find any problems with it as a theist.

My favorite idea: Theists have no problem with the Bible.. so long as they read it as myth.

Most theists accept evolution so there isn't really a conflict there only what you and young Earthers would want to manufacture to support whatever you/they want to believe. So I can't really stress the compatibility of the Biblical creation account and evolution/biology. From one source you get the how and from the other source the why.

"Pshh, just don't ask me about Original Sin, the Problem of Evil, Penal Substitution, the Incarnation, the Trinity, or the host of other ridiculous/immoral ideas Christians believe."

If you can see the beauty if the creation you have a master artist as well, a God worthy of worship.

Believe us (besides, it should be easy for you), life is far more beautiful when you put down the childish fantasies and investigate the natural world that we live in, in its inexplicable awe and mystery (for now, anyway), recognizing your proper place in it and how LUCKY you truly are to be given this ONE chance.

There are various negative aspects of life as well but there good theological explanations for that.

Umm. No, there isn't.

Your own opinion that he doesn't exist or you don't want to believe he exists is fine but these kinds of arguments from evil and human/natural suffering don't really hold much water.

I'll wait for that explanation. It should be good.