(Just so there are no misconceptions, I am in that stage between agnostic and atheist. I really seriously doubt that there is a god, but anythings possible I suppose.)
Unless you take the bible literally, evolution does not deny that there is a god. God could have started the evolutionary process. So why are there so many religious people that refuse to accept the evidence? Obviously if you take any religious text literally than evolution is impossible, but there are implications of the theory which are in direct competition with any religious belief.
Evolution is completely devoid of any ethical context. Things kill things that are weaker than them in order to become dominant. That is the essence of natural selection. There is no right or wrong in it. i have no doubt that some people believe that god could not create something so sinful. I don't want to get into a debate about whether god can sin, but if you hold that he can't, you have to accept that god and evolution cannot co-exist.
Here are a few other people who would rather ignore natural selection for this reason:
Vegetarians
The terminally ill
The severely handicapped
Anyone in the legal system
Note that I didn't mention any human or animal rights activists. No person or animal should suffer needlessly. Natural selection is about who lives or dies, not who suffers. Being hurt still sucks whether there is a god or not and guilt exists to prevent us from destroying or hurting things that we don't need to.
"Physics makes us all it's bitches"
-Of Montreal
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