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I have learned never to underestimate the human ability for rationalization. Usually the smarter and more intelligent the person, the crazier and more convoluted the self rationalization goes. So believing god created humans and believing in evolution is, I think, quite common.

"God guided the evolution". "God used the evolution to build the physical form then imbued the bodies with human souls". I could go on, but you get the gist.

People are very irrational, and quite easily believe contradictory things.



I'm not inclined to argue too hard in favor of God guided evolution, but I don't think you've demonstrated that such a belief is "very irrational". At worst, it's not provable, but it's not disprovable.


> At worst, it's not provable, but it's not disprovable.

And the next step is to realize that things that are neither provable nor disprovable do not have any effect on the universe we live in, and thus can safely be ignored and forgotten.




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