Why is thinking these so popular?

One thing that I tend to see in a lot of anti-evolutionist questions or reasonings in some way shape or form is:

People believe in evolution just so they won't be accountable to God.
and/or
People believe in evolution just because they can't conceive of a loving Creator.

Examples like : Why do people turn to evolution? Are they unable to conceive of a loving Creator? Why do you believe in evolution, do you just not want to be held accountable at the end of days? If we discredit evolution enough, people will remember they are accountable to the One who created them. Etc etc etc.



Now, I'm curious as to why this line of reasoning is so popular? Where did they come from? A lot of evolutionists are theistic and thus contradict those two statements by their very existence, and I've never seen evolution given as the sole reason someone doesn't believe in God, or the truth of the Bible, etc.

Metherion

The bottom line of evolution is to survive (anything goes). So the goal is wrong to begin with.

Or, if you like to argue: A principle of evolution is having no goal (anything goes). That is wrong too.

Or, the process of evolution has no right or wrong (anything goes). And that is wrong.

So it is wrong anyway you look at it.

The bottom line of evolution is to survive (anything goes). So the goal is wrong to begin with.

Or, if you like to argue: A principle of evolution is having no goal (anything goes). That is wrong too.

Or, the process of evolution has no right or wrong (anything goes). And that is wrong.

So it is wrong anyway you look at it.

Now, I'm curious as to why this line of reasoning is so popular? Where did they come from? A lot of evolutionists are theistic and thus contradict those two statements by their very existence, and I've never seen evolution given as the sole reason someone doesn't believe in God, or the truth of the Bible, etc.

Metherion

One thing that I tend to see in a lot of anti-evolutionist questions or reasonings in some way shape or form is:

People believe in evolution just so they won't be accountable to God.
and/or
People believe in evolution just because they can't conceive of a loving Creator.

the answer is simple. Some people get so caught up in their own theology that they believe anyone who disagrees with them MUST disagree with God. So, in this case, someone who takes Genesis 1 and 2 literally genuinely believes that someone who does not MUST not really believe in God. They simply are not open minded enough to conceive of someone holding vastly differing views and still believing in the same God, thus they look at themselves and the one who disagrees with them and say, "one of us must not be a believer and I know it's not me."

You make it too simple. It is not just black or white. There are a shades of gray in between. In addition, without comparison, many would take light grays as white.

Open mind means to know variations and possibilities. Jesus tells us to have a "pure mind". This teaching is politically very wrong today.

interesting. I am actually a proponent of many gray areas in interpreting scripture, so I am not sure what you are saying. The question was (I thought) why do people adhere to such thoughts as saying when someone believes in evolution, they are somehow dismissing God (my translation of the question)--something I've heard for years in this very forum. My answer is that when someone doesn't see anything but black and white, they come to this conclusion. Now your response is that I am too black and white? Interesting.
what teaching is politically wrong? the open mind or the "to have a pure mind?" I am confused by your response to me on this, or perhaps you were attributing the part you highlighted as my own thoughts rather than what I propose to be the thoughts of those who think this way? Help me understand

My response had a few turns in it. Sorry to lose you.

We should have a pure heart (see things as black/white). So we should NOT consider all shades of gray as acceptable alternatives. Bush administration was more toward black/white. Obama administration is totally gray. Creation is totally black/white. But evolution is completely gray.