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I am not sure the anti-christ is a person at all. Many have described it as a movement, which I agree with. In fact, I believe that darwinian evolution in the anti-christ.

It appears as though no other movement in history has led people away from God the way that darwin has. The acceptance that we were not created, and merely evolved is the most dangerous ideology man has ever known and has the power to bring forth our destruction.

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old comment by Allegory for Jesus

" I believe that darwinian evolution in the anti-christ."

This is a first...

"It appears as though no other movement in history has led people away from God the way that darwin has"

Really? I don't think evolution honestly has a hell of a lot to do with atheism, specifically. It does certainly help explain how life took its current form without positing a god, but I think that religion itself has been driving people to atheism far more efficiently than evolutionary theory has.

"The acceptance that we were not created, and merely evolved is the most dangerous ideology man has ever known and has the power to bring forth our destruction."

Wrong. The idea that we are the most important species on the planet, with a special knowledge of the nature of the supernatural, who will be rewarded with a better life beyond this one regardless of what our actions due to that knowledge is a far more dangerous ideology. It has brought about more destruction than acknowledging that we are essentially animals ever could.

Animals who know that they only live once may indulge themselves, but they are capable of valuing life in a manner that those who posit an afterlife in order to dull the pains of death never could.

old comment by Crazy Fundie

Merely evolved?

I’m more awed by the billions upon billions of small changes that allowed a colony of single-celled organisms to diverge; that allowed multi-cellular structures to evolve; that allowed differentiation to the point where we, other animals, plants, and algae are all related and interconnected I say, I’m more awed by that than I am by the claim God *poofed* people into existence, settled them in a perfect garden, then kicked them out because they ate from a tree he also created.

(What the hell kind of loving father creates sinless, perfect, innocent creatures, settles them in a garden with snakes and poisonous trees, then punishes them for disobedience when they hadn’t the capacity to tell right from wrong? The Genesis story isn't literal, you ass!)

old comment by Grigadil

Darwin would never have begun his investigations without some necessary groundwork by certain thinkers, whose collective influence was felt starting about the middle of the sixteenth century. This period was called the Enlightenment. As the name implies, it caused a new look at the How and Why of everything that we know. It must be noted that the dogma and doctrine of religion, to wit the bible, was abandoned in favor of the investigative systems that quickly established a logical coherence between the solar system, the Earth, and the life thereon.

Better ways of understanding reality were discovered. Darwin lived generations removed from the beginning of that amazing era, but he continued in that most excellent tradition.

There is no one-stop shop for the sum total of human understanding. To persist in using old myths to explain everything in terms of faith is an exercise in both futility and stupidity.

old comment by Alethe

Oh brother...

Let me be as brutally honest as I can: so many field of science have confirmed the soundness of Darwin's (and Alfred Russel Wallace's) insight -- genetics and DNA research, to name just two related fields Darwin couldn't possibly have imagined -- that this is pretty much the way things happened.

Why can't you unimaginative loonies understand that you're actually insulting your Creator by insisting on a static creation? You liken God's work with human creations, with the dynamic, diverse kaleidoscope of life manifested in Creation, which can and does get better with time... ALL BY ITSELF. In comparison, our creations cannot possibly change and evolve WITHOUT OUTSIDE INTERVENTION to be better suited to their environment -- to get a better car, you can't just wait until your present model improves: you have to either install better parts (outside intervention) or buy a new one. Leave a first-generation Honda Civic in a field a few decades; will it turn into an Insight hybrid or rust away? Leave an acorn besides it. Will it have similarly rotten (provided no squirrel has snatched it, of course)?

That's the crucial difference between God's creative powers and our puny powers. He embedded within his Creation the very rules that allows it to grow and change with time, with an unimaginably elegant language composed of merely four letters: DNA. By insisting he couldn't possibly have done it this way, you limit his creative powers (aren't they infinite?) and so commit the cardinal sin of pride. Be careful!

As you can see, one can both believe in God and recognize the reality of evolution.

I just had to get that off my chest, as I've had it with these tired and thorouhgly refuted arguments against evolution. Furthermore, evolutionary theory as the Antichrist is a new twist, one that ignores Revelation as well... That's a double FAIL for you!

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