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How does evolution explain sin?

How would an atheist/evolutionist explain how humans are sinful while animals are not?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    There's no such thing as sin, because there is no mysterious, cosmic authority.

    However, if it did, saying that humans sin and animals don't is rather stupid. People kill people, animals kill each other, people rape people, animals have non-consensual sex, people steal, animals steal.... I don't see a huge difference... Guess why? People ARE animals.

  • 1 decade ago

    Evolution doesn't explain sin.

    Example: When taking over a pride, a male lion will kill all of the cubs that he didn't father.

    The only reason that isn't a 'sin' is because they're lions. They don't have police, or morals, or ethics, or governments.

    We do.

    Sins 'evolved' when humans did. We created God, we convinced ourselves that we should fear him, and then whoever wrote the Bible decided, "Hey, here's a list of everything I think is wrong to do. If I write it, and say that God doesn't like these things, that will help prevent them from happening."

    And, to be specific, humans ARE animals. Like it or not.

    Source(s): Intelligence.
  • 1 decade ago

    People who rely on religion to answer life's questions have just begun to understand their world. Sin is a concept created by man to help us understand our world. You can apply the some concept to animals if you want and I am sure preachers/priests/wholly whatever would surely come to save them if they could impart with a steady stream of currency. Sin in man is more complex and therefore seen differently as we understand thing with human perceptions and have more complex models of thought and reason. The more intelligence an animal has the more capacity for evil it has.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I don't think that sin exists. I think that human nature is imperfect and that its not sinful to be a human being with flaws and nobilities. But I do think that those who do wrong things that hurt others should be punished.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Evolutionists cant explain it. Evolution has been proven

    false.

    Source(s): Scientist
  • 1 decade ago

    They believe that the human animal is far above the simple animals that we kill and eat. We are smart enough to be greedy, hateful, etc...

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Animals only kill to survive while humans kill because they're greedy, jealous, envious, hateful, etc. which are all unnatural actions, and "sins,"

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Even though they do not believe in God they would have the common sense to differentiate right from wrong, good from bad, wickedness from kindness etc,

  • 1 decade ago

    Competition. Strongest survives regardless of morals or ethics. Nature has no heart.

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