The following link is to a video featuring Paulogia and Forrest Valkai sponsored by "The Atheist Experience":
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONPo-Iys_xg>
Paulogia is especially well-suited to answer this question, as he was
a committed and involved Young Earth Creationist for most of his life.
He identifies two reasons why he attacked Evolution:
1. He viewed Evolution as attacking God's special relationship to
humans.
2. He thought the explanations for Evolution were counter-intuitive. A
problem is the explanations were given to him by other
evolution-deniers, and not by people who understood how Evolution
actually works.
WRT 1:
It isn't just Evolution, but all of science that shows humans are part
of the natural world. From astronomy to geology to biology to
physics, the history of science has disproved religious presumptions
that humans occupy a special place in the Universe.
Each human is one of billions of related individuals, and humans are
one of millions of related species, all living on one of billions of
planets orbiting one of billions of stars in one of billions of
galaxies that exist in this universe. Any religion that denies any
one of these facts denies not only all of science, but the very nature
of the universe these religions presume God created. ISTM that's a
very anti-God thing to do.
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