A question for Christians who accept evolution.

[theophilus]

The issue I find more difficult for Christians who believe in evolution, to live with is the process they through which Darwin identifies evolution working. Natural Selection.
This process is particularly cruel it relies on suffering of organisms as the means of enabling progress and survival.
The designer of such a process (if he,she or it existed) would surely be classified as a sadist not a loving all caring deity.

I agree with you completely about this. I used to believe in evolution because I thought that it had been scientifically proven. One of the reasons I finally rejected it is the realization that God wouldn't have used a method of creation that entailed so much death and suffering. The other reason is that I found out that in fact evolution has not actually been proven true and there are alternate explanations for all the evidence which claims to prove it.

The fact that there is suffering and death in the world now is that it is the consequence of Adam's sin. God placed the world under his authority and his sin has affected it.

So how come your all-knowing god didn't know that would happen? He sounds like a complete shmuck.

He did know it would happen and allowed it because he intends to use it to bring about good.

That article is basically admitting that the the bible is not the inerrant word of god after all, that it is just the words of erring men. Either that, or god is so stupid he had to wait until human science came along so he could work out that what he had created was mammalian, not avian

Calling bats mammals rather than birds is simply a human system of classification. God doesn't classify things the way we do.