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Originally Posted by Axiom_e
This random happening theory removes (for some) the specialness that is life. It makes one consider the possiblity that there isn't a higher calling or a higher power who know what they are doing and is going to save you from yourself.
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For a class at school I had to write an essay about evolution's impact on the value of human life. Naturally it's saved on the drive there so I won't have access to it again until this fall. Anyway, I talked about this in the paper and basically said the opposite of what people usually say(what you said) is true.
An all knowing, all powerful God that created us(humanity) specifically destroys our place as something special, and evolution grants it. The things in our lives that hold the most value are the things which we have the most difficulty coming by, or rather the thing which could very easily not be in our lives. The same can be said for life itself, life is valuable because of the ease with which it could have not been.
When you talk about evolution it says if you start the ball rolling all over again, its almost certain you won't get us, in other words it is very easy that we could have not been, and therefore we are valuable and can obtain meaning from this value as rare beings. But when you bring God into it, you make it so we have to be, there is no other way it could have been, our existence is an absolute, and that destoys the meaning we have as unique beings.
I'm sure I explained it better in my 10 pages than I did in these two paragraphs, but that is the gist of it. I'll see if I can get ahold of it off my drive at school somehow, if anyone is interested in seeing the whole thing.