My question:
We know evolution never required God so why would God be required for anything else?
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The best answer:
That is the question that theists seem to make up some very poor reasons that a God might be required. Lately it's been objective morality that at least christians have been using as needing a God. The problem is that we don't have objective morality so it fails. The second common need for God is Creation, except that the evidence so far only supports natural formations, not intelligent creations. Patterns are not a sign of intelligence, decision/choice making is a sign. There is no decision making behind nature itself, it's purely cause and effect and highly predictable as a result. While a deistic God could be more fitting where it got nature going and then nature took it from there, even that type of God contradicts the natural order of existence and should not be possible in the same light that a square circle is not possible. Should any Gods happen to exist, us humans have no reasonable path to know this existence, not even the possibility to be agnostic about.
"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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