Evolution or Creation?

Which is hardest to accept?

See what you think after this ....

You think that evolution is clearly true, and that noone in their right mind could believe in some god that YOU can't identify or see "proof" of?

Can I presume then, that you believe in an alternative view of the world where there is: no-god, eons of time, big bang, evolutionary, survival of the fittest, gene mutation, as the only possible explanation for your own existence, then? You believe you evolved from the monkeys, who evolved from single cells? And you believe in luck / chance, big time.

If so, then you'll also accept that:

• the weak and old are surely expendable - using survival of the fittest / "for the good of all" type reasons. So then logically, we should simply kill criminals, down syndrome children, and anyone with a genetic fault. Why waste resources (taxes) on them? And why hold up and poison our evolutionary progress with damaged genes, and counter-productive behaviours? Let's be pro-active instead, in weeding out the chaff, for our species' best evolutionary prospects.
• that love is a weakness that is actually irrelevant, and of no evolutionary value as it's lost at every generation and it is, at best, just a redundant instinctive throwback. Surely you see human love no differently from animals caring for their young? Where would any other kind of love come from? If so, then your love is of not much value to you or anyone else, and further, that you have no need of anyone else's weakness (love). Or has love itself evolved? But what proof have you that love itself, even exists? Do you believe in love?
• that some human races are definitely superior to others because they've been separated for long periods and have therefore had different rates of evolution, especially in recent times. As a logical consequence you believe in racism, and are racist yourself, and therefore support groups like Ku Klux Klan. I guess you believe that Hitler and Stalin were actually on the right track, too, since they believed in refining a "master race".
• that friendships are simply associations of convenience because emotions are an evolutionary nonsense. Is there a spirit, and if so, how did it evolve? If there is no spirit, then what are emotions? Emotions could have no evolutionary purpose save being a left-over from the pragmatics of team work in the hunting and gathering stage. Perhaps if there's no god, then we've all evolved a fractured brain that recognises something that's not really there, or that we ascribe too much credit to. Ironically, that's the same argument that many evolutionists use, saying that CHRISTians created god!
• that if I murder each member of your family, it doesn't really matter because we (humans) are not endangered as a species. Your life, mine and their's have no real, or eternal value in the big scheme of eons of time evolution. Serial killers often believe their life and those lives around them have no intrinsic value. Are they right, then? After all, what difference can, or do I make to the big endless scheme of millions of years evolving? I must just be dust, after all.
• that involuntary euthanasia, suicide, abortion, and capital punishment are simply logical and expedient ways of dealing with human weakness. Moreso, there should be no "retirement" from work, and that entertainment including music is a frivolous waste of time and resources. Or, ... how has "pleasure" evolved? What mutation conceived pleasure? Or what possible advantage could "evolving a pleasure behaviour" have had in surviving? That would be counter-productive wouldn't it? Is the pleasure gene passed on? Really?
• that there is no (scientific) alternative to the theory of evolution, and you believe evolution will eventually explain peacock feathers, how eyes, poison/venom, and turtles evolved. (But see: Answers in Genesis for credible alternate scientific explanations for what we see around us.)

I could go on. To me personally, evolutionary thinking is unacceptable. It goes against my nature, even if I'm imagining or conjuring that nature. This of course, itself is a paradox that evolution cannot explain.

What a cold and unfeeling world the eons of evolution alternative represents. It says that we're all doomed to die without any particular worth really, even to ourselves. We'll all just wear out one day and be replaced by one of a million others just like us. Evolutionary thinking teaches us that we're just bees or ants, without a future or hope, that we're just dust in the endless expanse of the universe.

Whether one chooses to believe in a semi-scientific (but unproven) theory for existence, or chooses to believe in a loving creator, should be up to the individual to decide for themselves, with respect from others for that decision.

After all that, if you care to counsel the alternative that a god MIGHT exist, then go back and (re-)read my: "Was Jesus a Liar?" page.
Oh, and well done for getting through all that deep stuff.

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