Part of the difficulty as I see it is that The Bible is interpreted in more ways than Darwin can be.

"In one very limited sense, as we shall hereafter see, this may be true; but it is preposterous to attribute to mere external conditions, the structure, for instance, of the woodpecker, with its feet, tail, beak, and tongue, so admirably adapted to catch insects under the bark of trees. In the case of the misseltoe, which draws its nourishment from certain trees, which has seeds that must be transported by certain birds, and which has flowers with separate sexes absolutely requiring the agency of certain insects to bring pollen from one flower to the other, it is equally preposterous to account for the structure of this parasite, with its relations to several distinct organic beings, by the effects of external conditions, or of habit, or of the volition of the plant itself.

The author of the 'Vestiges of Creation' would, I presume, say that, after a certain unknown number of generations, some bird had given birth to a woodpecker, and some plant to the misseltoe, and that these had been produced perfect as we now see them; but this assumption seems to me to be no explanation, for it leaves the case of the coadaptations of organic beings to each other and to their physical conditions of life, untouched and unexplained.

It is, therefore, of the highest importance to gain a clear insight into the means of modification and coadaptation."

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When I read in The Bible that "Thou shalt not kill", I take that to be an imperative from The Boss, period. Far as I know, the only group of people who adhere to that philosophy are Jains. Not Christians, Jews or Moslems.

I have asked Christians how they reconcile capital punishment, eating meat and the casualties of war with their beliefs based on the word of God and received pretty much the same answer which boils down to "That's not what God meant." I have in the past replied, "I thought He'd already spoken for Himself when He said, 'Thou shalt not kill.'" I seldom waste the breath anymore.