Citing evolution as evidence of the non-existence of God falls far short of any actual logical necessity for the non-existence of God. The evolutionary process, and the other scientific conceptions of the origins and formation of matter and the universe, merely disprove the assertions of a limited group of some very conservative Christians, that the complexities of the material dimension as we know it require an all-knowing, all-powerful God to have imagined, designed, and created it (one of those 12th century arguments the rest of us left behind in the 16th century).
It is absolutely logically possible for God to exist and also for all of the known universe, with all its diversity and complexity to have evolved through completely natural measurable, comprehensible progressions over billions of years becoming what it is today and evolving into the future. The two things - the existence God and formation of the universe by the process of evolution - have no logically necessary connection with each other whatever. Therefore, you cannot disprove the existence of God by proving the process of evolution. In fact, evolution as a point of argument has been a non-starter for at least a hundred years - except for the folks on both sides of the God vs. no-god argument who do all of the public shouting.
In similar fashion, you cannot disprove the existence of God by proving the absolute inaccuracy and falsehood of every scripture on earth. They could all be completely mistaken from beginning to end and it would not logically require the non-existence of God.
In fact many religious people fully recognize and accept that scriptures are a mix of writings by different people from different sources, produced in response to different ages and cultures. And yet they also believe that scriptures can be used as one of the means and methods by which the human soul can find its way into the spiritual dimension of our human life, can touch the doorstep of that which we call God.
Disproving all scriptures will not only fail to disprove the existence of God, it doesn't logically preclude the use of scriptures as a device for spiritual awakening. Scriptures don't have to be historically factual, they don't have to be the words of God, they don't have to even be the writings of the people they are attributed to. The reason scriptures have been preserved is because they continue to speak in some real and tangible way to the innermost core of our human soul. We just change the ways we interpret them, and they're good for another few thousand years.
for equal opportunity logical disconnects see the next blog
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