I have some questions for my fellow Christians and science believers,
While I personally have no issue reconciling evolution, and the cosmos with a theistic God, I do have some difficult seeing the Christian God in it, much less Jesus.
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Where is God’s love in evolution and survival of the fittest, extinction, nonviable mutations, etc. Do you see God’s love in the millions of years of animal suffering before humans existed?
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Do you see God’s love in a genetic flaw that leads to early death in a child or a life of misery into adulthood? Was that an accident that God allowed because of the greater good of random, probabilistic evolution, or did he make it so on purpose? If it is designed, why are some traits inheritability to easy to predict (50/50). Does God constrain him to not forget to make a certain amount of people have a trait, or does he just let the dice and the consequences fall wherever they land?
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Evolution is ultimately about self reliance and competition. Those organisms that do not complete will not survive. Even those who are altruistic to the extent of decreasing their chances of survival, and thus removing their whatever parts of their genes contributed to altruism. Therefore, there is a feedback loop for selfishness. Of course, the moral law exists, and it is hard to explain in this system, but, even so…
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Why go through billions of years of forming the cosmos and millions of years of evolution to end it a few thousands years after human civilization begins, depending on when Jesus comes back?
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If, for millions of years, animals have been suffering and struggling to survive, most of which dying off due to various factors or traits the made them less fit for survival, and theistic evolution accepts the idea that factors such as genetics, ‘instincts’, and other immutable characteristics strongly influence behavior, then what about the Fall of Man/Adam was even remotely avoidable? Were we set up to fail? How it our fault? Why do we deserve hell for making use of the selfish tactics and traits our ancestors used more successfully than others? This leaves the unpleasant interpretation that God curses humanity ultimately to Hell for doing what it was programmed to do, and what was necessary to survive in the systems God created. Then, after being forced into this situation, you are then given option to accept salvation or to face whatever Hell is, for a problem created either by God himself directly or the necessity of adaptation to nature.
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A dominant theme of the New Testament isn’t just God’s love for his creation, but also the malevolence of Satan and demons, whom make mankind act against their better natures in ways that are, basically, animalistic in nature (selfish, violent, short sighted, paranoid, emotional, etc). While you can interpret the Fall of Adam in many ways, attributing the above tendencies to God and not Satan has even further implications. What exactly is Satan and Demons in theistic evolution?