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If God created evolution, doesn't that count as creationism?

So evolution could be characterised - in ultra reductionist terms- as quite simply *choosing the path of less resistance*.

So if God in His Infinite Majestic Glory and Patience created an array where there were avenues or conduits that allowed species to - over 1000s of generations choose the path of less resistance and "evolve" doesn't that count as *design*?

If that's a little obtuse try this, if you reach out and try to change the universe with your own hands is that really any different from seeming not to do anything but really you don't need to because before anyone noticed, you arrayed things with such craftsman ship that all you need to do is let things fall into place. God was doing the ground work before you were even able to pay attention.

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newjaninev2 · 56-60, F
Your magical entity isn’t needed by evolution, and all you’re trying to do is to allow it to steal all the credit long after the event is over. Come on - is it Donald Trump or something!

Magical entities seem not to do anything because they don’t do anything

What reason is there to suppose otherwise?
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Jm31xxx · 46-50, M
@newjaninev2 what reason is there to be so pessimistic? I'm sorry if your religious teachers gave you a hard time at school but they are probably in Heaven by now so stop hating on them.
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newjaninev2 · 56-60, F
@StrawberryMilkshake Once abiogenesis had occurred, Natural Selection inevitably drove evolution. Differential genetic heritability across changing environments with consequential difference in replication rates

Sex and death
If you have one, you need the other
If you have both, you need nothing else

and you certainly don't need magical entities
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newjaninev2 · 56-60, F
@Jm31xxx I am as I was born (as we were all born) an atheist. My parents never lied to me, as their parents never lied to them, as I have never lied to my daughter.

if any religious parasites had come near me at school my parents would have brought... consequences. Such child abuse is unacceptable!
Jm31xxx · 46-50, M
@newjaninev2 youre parents were objectiveists?
newjaninev2 · 56-60, F
@StrawberryMilkshake Yes, there’s no compelling necessity to even postulate the existence of magical entities, and the postulation itself explains nothing.
@Jm31xxx All atheists are not Ayn Rand followers. As a philosopher, Rand isn’t even shallow.
walabby · M
@StrawberryMilkshake A waste of time, but sometimes fun... :)