Your response is ingenious and I am glad you recognise there is room to show compassion (regardless of the subject) in the present, even if you define the past with hate.
What do you suppose it is that gives you the freedom to hate someone's past and then turn a smile for them (so to speak)?
I am taught that it is the conscience, something that could only occur by Design.
It is you who is defining instances of people using the minds, which you claim were given them by God, as hatred. What evidence have you shown that any of us 'hates someone's past'? You have none, because it is just some convoluted construct you place unthinkingly on other people's understanding of the world, present and past, an understanding that has required great thinkers, hard work, and very earnest science.
You are missing out, Gottservant, on some of the most wonderful knowledge humans have managed to glean from a very mysterious universe. You are turning your back on understanding, out of some misplaced loyalty to the half-baked notions of a small group of people who use your belief in God to eke out a little money and fifteen minutes of shallow fame for themselves.
If anything, understanding evolution lets us love the past, as it allows us to glimpse fantastic early worlds, teeming with life unseen today, and our brave ancestors, who lived hard short lives, yet stubbornly and with a little luck persevered, leaving only their mark upon our genome and a few broken stone tools, and the charcoal from their ancient fires.
The conscience, Gottservant, well developed in those of us who are not sociopaths, was not designed, but evolved along with us, and is visibly present in lesser manner in the very dogs I joked about, who feel guilt when they do wrong.
If you are taught, then you have a poor teacher who leads you astray from reality. Do you really think the God you believe in wants people to make stuff up about His world? Expand your studying with a more open mind, and learn how you have been led astray.
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