Evolution and atheism (Introduction)

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Sunday, February 17, 2013, 20:46 (4638 days ago) @ dhw

The conflict between evolution and deism is simply that 
it renders the idea of a creator god redundant, 
and moreover since human consciousness has evolved, 
raises the question of where the deity evolved from, 
but all that could indeed be considered a metaphysical argument. -The real conflict between evolution and chistianity 
lies in the Adam and Eve story - the Y-chromosome Adam 
and the Mitochondrial Eve lived ages apart.
Francis Collins and his colleagues at BioLogos 
get round this by postulating that a pair of humans, 
Homo Divinis, were somehow 'ensouled' by the deity, 
though when this happened is still to be determined, 
and can only be reconciled with the Genesis story 
with a good deal of poetic licence.

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GPJ