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Will Provine, noted atheist and evolutionary biologist, Cornell University. Cited in Larry Witham. 2002. Where Darwin Meets the Bible.

Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. p. 23.

“Christianity has fought, still fights, and will fight science to the desperate end over evolution, because evolution destroys utterly and finally the very reason Jesus’ earthly life was supposedly made necessary.

Destroy Adam and Eve and the original sin, and in the rubble you will find the sorry remains of the son of god. . . . If Jesus was not the redeemer who died for our sins, and this is what evolution means, then Christianity is nothing!”

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“Oh but of course the story of Adam and Eve was only ever symbolic, wasn’t it? Symbolic?! Jesus had himself tortured and executed for a symbolic sin by a non-existent individual. Nobody not brought up in the faith could reach any verdict other than barking mad!”

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What’s wrong w

• Extrapolation in the Extremeith Evolution

• 2. Evidence is Embellished.

• Explanations are Egregious

• Evangelism gets Eviscerated.

• Extraordinary Evil Encouraged.

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What’s wrong with Evolution

5. Extraordinary Evil Encouraged.

Evolution robs God of his glory,

and diminishes human significance.

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Evolution Robs God of his Glory

“What kind of God can one infer from the sort of phenomena epitomized by the species on Darwin’s Galápagos Islands? The evolutionary process is rife with happenstance, contingency, incredible waste, death, pain and horror. . . .

Whatever the God implied by evolutionary theory and the data of natural history may be like, He is not the Protestant God of waste not, want not. He is also not a loving God who cares about His productions. . . . The God of the Galápagos is careless, wasteful, indifferent, almost diabolical.

He is certainly not the sort of God to whom anyone would be inclined to pray.”

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Evolution Diminishes Human Significance

Those skeptical about the role Darwinism played in the rise of advocacy for involuntary euthanasia, infanticide, and abortion should consider several points.

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Ernst Haeckel’s Influence on German Society

To some a genius, to others a bigoted zealot and fraudulent scientist, Haeckel was arguably, next to Darwin, the dominant intellectual figure of his time. . . . He treated evolutionary biology almost as a religion and believed that just as one could apply the concept of natural selection to animals and plants, one could also determine which groups of humans were superior. Offering intellectual justification and ‘scientific’ support for racism, anti-Semitism, and eugenics, his ideas were later a major ideological influence on the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, better known as the Nazis.”