Posted: Jan 18, 2020 5:28 am
It is egregious of you to make out that I am labelling evolution as atheist ideology. What I do argue is that the theory of evolution has been taken by atheists as a stick to beat theists with,...
Evolution is a fact: if theists are ideologically motivated to deny that fact, then the problem is with them and their ideology. That doesn't make atheists the bad guys - no one's being tortured, crucified or burned at the stake here... you know, like Christians did to heretics and heathens.
But do tell us more about how you theists are the innocent victims of the nasty atheists with their big sticks of inescapable fact and dastardly plans of perverting the Gospel Truth.
and this has led them increasingly, to tell self-serving stories of human origins
None of which you've ever identified. You've tossed out a couple of strawman arguments, but these have been readily exposed. So you're arguing for more phantoms of your imagination. You really need to engage in some introspection.
in which crudely put, life was created by “Nothing”.
See? A classic fundamentalist strawman of science.
Atheist ideology, not the theory of evolution, is what is messing up the origin story.
a) There's no such thing as atheist ideology
b) Atheism isn't in control of the theory of evolution - it's governed by empirical evidence.
c) Atheism has no means of 'messing up' science.
As you get older JJ, you become ever more like someone shaking his fist at the Moon and haranguing bushes - daft beyond words.
When I said, “Life” being created, I didn’t mean to refer to abiogenesis but about what has happened later, as modelled using the theory of natural selection.
Then life - as in its diversity - was "created" by natural selection and the necessary statistical shuffling of genes in a population. End of. Not employing your ideology to pretend there's more to it is not thereby a corresponding ideology - this is a bog standard falsehood your ideological ilk frequently succumb to.