Originally posted by Stormy
Seebs: You do not think that at least on the part of some of the atheist that post... evolution is being used as a weapon to destroy the need for God?
Not really, no.
The fact is, evolution is no argument at all against God - only against one particular interpretation of the Bible. History is littered with understandings of the Bible which we abandoned when we learned new things about the world we live in. One more isn't going to change anything.
No one believes in evolution *because* it's an attack on God. Some people, not believing in God, would find young-earth creation a very poor explanation for life - in which case, they might look for another theory.
I think that dogmatism about YEC beliefs is a tool designed to separate people from Christ.
"He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end by loving himself better than all."- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
I think this is an exceptionally insightful thing. Truth does not come from falsehoods. Falsehoods do not come from truth. If, indeed, life evolves, then teaching that it does not is a falsehood, and no truth can come of it.
It seems to me that God is welcome to create us in whatever way He sees fit, and that He has left a lot of tools and equipment around suggesting a particular style of work; it strikes me as foolish to deny this.
The atheists who participate in these threads are mostly quite respectful of Christianity. They are not attacking the faith; they are attacking the senseless conflation of an eternal spiritual truth with a strange set of beliefs about scientific matters.