{"id":992,"date":"2021-09-09T08:09:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T07:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/?page_id=992"},"modified":"2021-11-11T08:26:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T08:26:16","slug":"evolution-or-creation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/evolution-or-creation\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolution or creation?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the regular conversations I get into at The Cross in Town in Reading is the one with what I call &#8220;Evangelical Atheists&#8221;. Those who are so convinced that science has disproved the existence of God that they will get quite heated that any &#8220;idiot&#8221; (and I quote) could possibly believe these days. The Bible is an ancient set of myths, blah. Jesus didn&#8217;t exist or was a madman, blah, blah.  Evolution is a proven fact and the fossil record proves it, blah, blah, blah. (Apologies to Greta Thunberg).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It almost makes me weep because the anger isn&#8217;t a rational response. No God, no problem. Walk away. But this is more. Invariably when you dig down, the real issue is that they <strong>do <\/strong>believe but the God they imagine must exist is not nice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Does science deny God?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Faith &amp; Modern Science\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7eSysTzAy3Q?start=12&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption> #KirkDurston <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Does nature point to Darwinian evolution or creation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Design in Life\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u_j0E995D2s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>#KirkDurston<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Rather bizarrely atheists actually believe in <a href=\"https:\/\/creation.com\/five-atheist-miracles\">miracles<\/a>! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the regular conversations I get into at The Cross in Town in Reading is the one with what I call &#8220;Evangelical Atheists&#8221;. Those who are so convinced that science has disproved the existence of God that they will get quite heated that any &#8220;idiot&#8221; (and I quote) could possibly believe these days. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/evolution-or-creation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Evolution or creation?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-992","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039,"href":"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/992\/revisions\/1039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}