"For 160 million years, approximately 225 to 65 million years ago, the Earth was a dinosaur planet. There was no question who ruled at the top of the food chain. But Christianity suggests that God created the Earth so he could have a place for his ultimate creation- human beings. If this is so, does it make any sense that he allowed the dinosaurs so much time, given that they had no significance in the eternal matters of his theology?
The answer to the question is ‘no,’ it makes no sense whatsoever. Modern humans have existed for at most 200,000 years, or 1/800th of the reign of the dinosaurs. The history of dinosaurs on this planet is significant evidence that the Earth was not created for humans and that there was no god directing the script."
"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science." -- Jerry Coyne
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