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2 points in relation to your 2 main points

1) ...if for the moment I grant your point that it takes an external intelligence to form something complex it leaves unanswered the question "What created that intelligence?"...This is the sort of embarrassing question that all healthy small children point out--and there is obviously no satisfactory logical answer.

And frankly Scientists do no better than Theologians...saying there was no time before the "big Bang" also feels rather unsatisfactory, to many people I imagine.

(Personally I'm somewhat comfortable with mysteries, paradoxes, and ambiguities; and feel life would be rather boring without them. But obviously the majority of folks are not comfortable with uncertainty or wonder)

if someone says "I feel God created the world, and everyday I wake up and feel grateful to be in such a beautiful world, I feel permeated by God's love, and everything in my life seems to flow forth from this warm feeling". Who can argue with that? Who wants to spoil their happiness?
But if on-the-other-hand their happiness always feels just a little insecure unless they can convince others that their beliefs are logical--then another person who shows them that their beliefs are of a conceptual nature rather than experiential nature does, them a favor as they now will have the opportunity to continue their spiritual quest.
Deep experiential spirituality maybe manifested for example as the ability to immolate oneself as the Buddhist monks did during the Vietnam war, and would not seem to be dependent upon intellectual arguments as to the truth or falsity of Darwinian Evolutionary Theory.
But this depth is very rare of course. I just have to learn to accept myself as I am. If I can't do that, how can I escape judging "others"?

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2)...It seems you believe that there is a conspiracy or conspiracies afoot to keep folks hoodwinked. This seems far-fetched when you consider for a moment one example which is typical: That large corporations that pollute also harm the bosses and their families. Of course in many ways the very rich are rather insulated. It is a true that they can buy "Justice" and keep their kids out of the army, but this is a Truism not a Hidden Conspiracy.

It would seem to me that the sorry state of mankind is rather the result, of such obvious forces as greed, fear, & ignorance, & and their various manifestations, such as lust, desire, anger, projection, impatience, lack of imagination and conformity.

And it seems to me that although there are always plenty of dirty plots going on behind the scenes, (many of which we will never hear of) like Watergate, Ollie North and the CIA drugs for weapons plot, Enron and so on; that overall there is no centralized evil mastermind. As they used to say "What if they gave a war, and nobody came?" Most of us are only too ready to come if we're not to busy cheering our favorite football team or boxing champ.

Just off the top of my head consider that we have only to look at how pathetically folks spend their free time, or look at literature and movies to see what a popular plot revenge is-unfortunately there is no need for conspiracies to explain our deficiencies,.. seems to me that metaphorically at least the theory of evolution is an insult to animals--not to us.

If we study the rise and fall of other civilizations, it seems apparent that the above mentioned emotional forces and human limitations are sufficient to explain the dynamics of the ups and downs of human fortune, through out history and prehistory worldwide.

But of course human vanity wants an external Devil aka a "Conspiracy" - it makes us important, and gives us someone to blame.