(November 20, 2014 at 3:50 pm)His_Majesty Wrote: But I understand why you must believe in evolution, because after all, you have to be able to somehow explain the diversity in life without God, and evolution is the only game left in town...for you, it just HAVE to be evolution.
You're projecting. For some reason, you think there's a problem with accepting the evidence for evolution and believing in God, despite there being millions of theists who do so. If evolution is true, that does not mean that God isn't. If God is real, it means God is a little more 'hands-off' than depicted in Genesis, that's all. And the evolution scenario isn't a problem for the God of deism at all.
The main way in which accepting evolution as probably true deconverts Christians to atheism is when they've been repeatedly told that evolution is bunk and find out that they've been lied to when they honestly investigate it. It's a problem for overly-literal Biblical fundamentalists, finding out the Bible account of creation isn't literally true can shake their faith...but Christians who haven't been taught that evolution is a lie can weather learning all about evolutionary biology without their faith even being chipped.
I don't want to see atheists become a majority in the USA, because majorities tend to become complacent and entitled, but I do want us to become a large enough minority that we can't be safely ignored. Your contributions do more than I ever could on my own to shake any fundamentalists who happen to read this thread; and I want you to know I appreciate you being here. Planting a seed of doubt is one of the things I'm about.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.