Is evolution simply a lie to disprove God?

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Not at all. Specific evidence collected by many different people in many different fields of science, over the course of more than a century, has been studied in many different ways. The evidence itself indicates a process of gradual change that can be summed up with the term "evolution." Many deeply religious people and entire Christian denominations find no contradiction between their understanding of evolution and their faith in God.

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No. Bill Maher's programme Religulous points out how science post-dates any form of creationism (god-guided origin of life). The advent of science is simply an evolution of human thought, from religious evidenceless faith to the objective seeking of evidence and the examination of the real world to seek answers. The Theory of Evolution (a biological theory explaining the diversification and change of life's forms via Natural Selection) was formally initiated with much evidence by Charles Darwin. Darwin initially felt very uncomfortable about the appearance Evolution gave of a possibly creatorless biotic world. Darwin had been keen in earlier life (before his voyage on HMS Beagle and his finding of evidence for evolutionary change to life) to become one of the church and had a theological degree. Many people at Darwin's time felt uncomfortable about Evolution and perhaps some still do. But the nature of life and the enormous evidence for Evolution drove Darwin to the conclusion of change over time and Natural Selection. It is the evidence today that drives all scientists and Evolution-accepting laymen and general public to accept Evolution as true. In short, Evolution, due to its evidence, is not a dishonesty in science and not a malicious fabrication to express an absence of a creator or a god. Many, no doubt, have lost a god-imagining faith due to the evidence for Evolution. To many, it has always been obvious that reality be godless (perhaps often regardless of the existence of Darwin's theory). But Evolution was not hypothesised or formulated into a theory as a refutation of God at all. It was formulated as an explanation of the diversity of life and how life has diversified and what mechanism occurs in the diversification and radiation of life.