God Is Imaginary - Proof 25

== "Post" #25 - Understand evolution and abiogenesis ==
Halfway through and MB actually gets one right...sort of.
~~~~Recently there has been a remarkable change in the Christian community: Many members of the Christian faith are embracing evolution.~~~~
 This is undeniably true and definitely worthy of comment.
~~~~The interesting thing to understand is that when you accept evolution, what you are automatically doing is rejecting the concept of a soul. Here is why: As soon as you accept that evolution is true, you also accept that the creation story in the Bible is false.
Simply think through the logic. What the theory of evolution says is that every living thing on this planet has evolved through a completely natural process. Every species that we see today is derived from simple, single-cell organisms over the course of hundreds of millions of years. In other words, there was no supernatural creation process for humans as described in the Bible's book of Genesis.
As you think about this, what you will realize is that evolved beings have no souls. Human beings are no different from any other animal, insect, plant or bacteria in the way that we have evolved. In the same way that every other living thing on planet Earth is soul-less, humans are soul-less. The whole notion of a soul is a figment of human imagination.~~~~'''
I took the liberty of deleting a couple of pointless assertions and left the meat of the point because MB is exactly right! If you believe macroevolution is true, you have denied the explicit truth of the Bible, denied the existence of the soul, or have found yourself in an ever widening spiral of eisegesis.
Theistic Evolution is all about a compromise between a weak faith and an unhealthy reliance on the mental capacity and perspective of men. Those who hold to TE believe that science is at least coequal with inspired scripture, but ultimately this ends up just being that science is more authoritative because whenever there is a supposed conflict, science wins in their minds.
Theistic evolution can be defeated in one verse, but I'll give you two:
Matthew 19:4 - "And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female..." 
Exodus 20:8-11 - "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.  Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:  But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord
 thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy 
daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy 
stranger that is within thy gates:  For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. "
In the first verse, Jesus said man and woman were made at the beginning. The beginning is unqualified and therefore is the beginning spoken of in Genesis 1. Macroevolution teaches the opposite, that in the course of 4.5 billion years, man and woman were made at the end. Those are mutually exclusive. So if Jesus was wrong, He was either not-God or a liar, both of which make Him not our Savior and we are all lost.
In the second verse, Moses told the Israelites to work for 6 literal days and rest on the 7th then uses the same exact words to describe how long it took to make the universe. It takes real effort to understand these as anything other than literal days. There are no context clues anywhere that demand these days of Creation are metaphor.
So, as MB would put it, if Evolution is true, the Bible is a myth, and God is imaginary. Having acknowledged that very thoroughly...
~~~~This makes complete sense. The biochemistry of life powers evolution. That biochemistry is amazing and complex, but it is nothing more than a set of soul-less chemical reactions. When the chemical reactions cease, you die. There is no "soul" mixed in with the chemicals.~~~~
Elsewhere in the Bible is Science section I am doing a long, thorough analysis of Evolution from one of their top apologetic sites. I will offer the specific defense there. Here, though, MB just asserts that Evolution is true rather than shows it. This is extremely common as most people who actively support Evolution don't really know how to defend it. I've worked with enough science teachers to know this first hand.
Here is a couple of reasons why Evolution cannot be true. And when I say 'cannot' I mean its not logically possible, not simply something they haven't discovered yet.
# If true, it is the largest, longest running violation of the Law of Entropy known to man.
# Evolution cannot account for the increase in complexity (not just order) in the physical structures of life.
# Evolution cannot account for the increase in the complexity of information (not just order) in the DNA over the alleged tree of life.
# Evolution has no mechanism for increasing complexity within a system, either physical or informational.
# Evolution involves a vast number of assumptions which must be true but can't be true: abiogenesis, exact properties of Earth within the kosmos, truth of radiometric dating, truth of the geological column, a flimsy definition for its base concept - species.
~~~~Where did the first cell come from? Many believers will argue that God magically created the first living cell. This, of course, is silly. The scientific principle that describes the origin of life is called abiogenesis. In the same way that there is no supernatural being involved in evolution, there is no supernatural being involved in abiogenesis. Both the creation of life and the evolution of species are completely natural processes.~~~~
Again he asserts, tosses out a Big Word, and hopes it sticks to the uneducated reader. The problem with abiogenesis is that it can't happen. Abiogenesis is a direct contradiction to the most well established Law in all of Biology, the Law of Biogenesis, which says that all life produces only the same kind of life. No one has ever seen that which is not alive give rise to that which is, nor has anyone ever observed or been able to show through implication that one kind of life comes from another kind. No one has ever seen a pig give birth to a human, for example.
Every experiment to produce even the simplest building blocks of life have failed.
~~~~There is no "supreme being" in heaven who reached down to create life on Earth or human beings. Nor is that being answering prayers. There is no soul. There is no everlasting life. Science tells us all of these things with complete clarity. God is imaginary.~~~~'''
Except that science actually tells us just the opposite. Evolution is not real science. It's dogma of the atheist religion. It has no scientific evidence to support it. It has no logical premises. It's quite literally based solely on the idea that "hey, that bird looks like that bird but different so man must have evolved from rocks".
No, this is just another empty assertion by MB and without any attempt to back it up, it goes on the pile of miserable failures as far as 'proof' for God's non-existence.
~~~~Understanding the Rationalizations
Many believers will say, "This is simply untrue. Even though humans are the product of evolution, humans are still special in God's eyes. God manipulated the evolutionary process in some magical way to divinely create human beings, and God magically gives each human being a soul at conception."
In order to see the truth, you need to understand that all explanations involving "magic" are false. The fact is, God had absolutely nothing to do with the creation of life on this planet nor with any part of the evolutionary process. As soon as you accept this fact, you realize that you have no soul. God is imaginary and the biblical concept of everlasting life is a fairy tale.
The fact that we exist as a conscious, intelligent, rational species is an accident of nature that involved no supernatural intervention. There is no part of the scientific explanation of evolution that says, "a mythical supernatural being reaches in right here and guides it." Evolution, by its very nature, is a supernatural-free process.~~~~'''
I'll not belabor the point by responding further to this except to say that I don't try to compromise my faith by yielding to that which is called science. There simply isn't any need.
~~~~There is no way to simultaneously "accept evolution" and "believe in an everlasting soul as described in the Bible." If evolution is true, then the Bible describes a creation process that is a complete myth. The concept of a soul is myth in exactly the same way. ~~~~
Agreed. Conversely, if the soul is true and the Bible is true, then Evolution cannot be. I can show that the soul has been proved to be true and I can prove the Bible to be true. So MB is out of luck on this point.
In Truth and Love.