At the core of any major religion that I know of is the belief that humanity is a special creation that merits special attention from deities or a single creator (I always loved the term '"unmoved mover").
The problem is: we are not.
Evolution is a "theory" like gravity is a "theory" or 1+2=3 is a "theory".
Evolution is not a set of dogmas, but a desciption of a process. Complex organisms evolved from simpler ones. That's it - no morality or necessity that we ever arrive on the scene.
Most people who never question evolution also tend to forget this: Just because Evolution came up with us does not mean that evolution was geared towards us or that we are even a good idea. We are just what it came up lately and we will be gone one day.
We have been "us" in the broadest stretch of what homo sapiens is for a million years at most and we have been exactly what we are for about 50,000 years.
Dinosuars were around for 150 MILLION years. Evolution seemed to really like them, but they've been gone now for 65 million years. This is because evolution did not see fit to develop a shield against asteroids.
How can any religion have much to say about the things it loves to go on about when the centre of it (us) has been here for 5 minutes in geological time and we may be a flash in the pan compared to T Rex?
TF.
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I agree whole-heartedly with your ideas and especially, the concept that we are merely a geological "flash in the pan". Kansas' "Dust In The Wind" used to annoy a mutual friend of ours because he had a lot of books that made a big deal out of human thought but we are nothing more than the love we share.
That's beeee-uuu-tiful, Young Stephen (sob!).
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