1. Evolution never excludes the existence of gods. In fact, the theory just never mentions them. Regardless as to how you feel it is in regards to how you interpret religious texts, evolution doesn't require gods to not exist, nor does it make any claims about them. Evolution and religion are as compatible with religion as one is willing to let them be.
2. Universal common decent is an entirely different theory than evolution. True, they are closely related, but if universal common decent was falsified, evolution wouldn't be as evolution doesn't require universal common decent to be true in order for evolution to be valid. Same goes with abiogenesis.
3. You can believe a deity guides evolution all you like. But unless you provide evidence that deities themselves exist, you shouldn't expect to make atheists like myself believe that to be the case, as one can easily argue evolution itself would have no apparent differences guided or not. It just leads to a dead end argument laden with opinions that goes nowhere.
4. You cannot legitimately consider "microevolution" to occur and not "macroevolution", both processes work by the exact same means, the only difference being that macroevolution measures it over longer periods of time. There isn't a single mechanism that prevents more and more mutations from building up in populations across generations until the newest generation no longer resembles the oldest. To claim microevolution occurs but macroevolution doesn't is like claiming people can age until they are a day older, and yet they can't age twenty years, despite that you are agreeing that they age every day a little within those twenty years.
5. Expecting to be able to observe evolution on the scale of humans splitting from chimpanzee evolution all the way to modern humans directly within a human lifespan is as unrealistic as expecting to flap your arms and fly. It takes millions of years, with some variation in time depending on the environment and other factors which impact evolution. Humans just don't live long enough to see big changes like that in most cases. The only things which reproduce fast enough for us to see changes like that are organisms such as bacteria, and for reasons I don't personally get, creationists just wave them off.
6. Evolution isn't a religion, people need to just get over it. Just because you feel it doesn't fit your religion and people are willing to defend evolution against religious arguments doesn't make it a religion. It doesn't guide our lives, it isn't a philosophy, it is about as much of a religion as gravity. I challenge someone to defend the idea that supporting the theory of gravity is a religion.
7. Evolutionary theory has changed over the years, mostly new knowledge has been added. This in no way hurts its validity. Correcting past mistakes in fact helps to make it more valid. Will it change more in the future? Probably a bit, sure, but assuming that these changes will make the theory as we currently use it pointless is invalid.
You can argue with these points all you like, claim they are wrong all you like, but these are the facts, and denying them is essentially choosing to remain ignorant about the theory.
2. Universal common decent is an entirely different theory than evolution. True, they are closely related, but if universal common decent was falsified, evolution wouldn't be as evolution doesn't require universal common decent to be true in order for evolution to be valid. Same goes with abiogenesis.
3. You can believe a deity guides evolution all you like. But unless you provide evidence that deities themselves exist, you shouldn't expect to make atheists like myself believe that to be the case, as one can easily argue evolution itself would have no apparent differences guided or not. It just leads to a dead end argument laden with opinions that goes nowhere.
4. You cannot legitimately consider "microevolution" to occur and not "macroevolution", both processes work by the exact same means, the only difference being that macroevolution measures it over longer periods of time. There isn't a single mechanism that prevents more and more mutations from building up in populations across generations until the newest generation no longer resembles the oldest. To claim microevolution occurs but macroevolution doesn't is like claiming people can age until they are a day older, and yet they can't age twenty years, despite that you are agreeing that they age every day a little within those twenty years.
5. Expecting to be able to observe evolution on the scale of humans splitting from chimpanzee evolution all the way to modern humans directly within a human lifespan is as unrealistic as expecting to flap your arms and fly. It takes millions of years, with some variation in time depending on the environment and other factors which impact evolution. Humans just don't live long enough to see big changes like that in most cases. The only things which reproduce fast enough for us to see changes like that are organisms such as bacteria, and for reasons I don't personally get, creationists just wave them off.
6. Evolution isn't a religion, people need to just get over it. Just because you feel it doesn't fit your religion and people are willing to defend evolution against religious arguments doesn't make it a religion. It doesn't guide our lives, it isn't a philosophy, it is about as much of a religion as gravity. I challenge someone to defend the idea that supporting the theory of gravity is a religion.
7. Evolutionary theory has changed over the years, mostly new knowledge has been added. This in no way hurts its validity. Correcting past mistakes in fact helps to make it more valid. Will it change more in the future? Probably a bit, sure, but assuming that these changes will make the theory as we currently use it pointless is invalid.
You can argue with these points all you like, claim they are wrong all you like, but these are the facts, and denying them is essentially choosing to remain ignorant about the theory.
