Re: Ken Miller: scientist and believeing Catholic
Evolution certainly isn't 'anti-God', but it definitely is anti-scripture, and in that sense is mostly anti-religious.
Scripture and religion explicitly state that humanity is the prideful product of God and the rest of the animal kingdom was created for mankind's own use. There are obvious conflicts that arise between this religious view of God and evolution, because evolution is founded on common ancestry. At what point on our evolutionary path did we humans become 'special'? Was it when the first bacteria was born? The first mammal? Was it when we developed the large frontal lobe? Societies? Or only after we invented religion?
The Evolutionary Compatibilist wants to redefine our 'specialness' just like a Free Will Compatibilist wants to redefine free will. It's a pretty big concession to admit that man is the product of a mindless algorithm instead of divine intervention.
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