Re: theistic-friendly science

David Campbell (bivalve@mailserv0.isis.unc.edu)
Tue, 6 Jan 1998 15:01:10 -0400

> Johnson put it
>well at the NTSE when he said that the ID work would, if successful, make
>science more "theistic friendly," but that's all.

It's the philosophy, not the science, that is friendly or not to theism.
If God is omnipotent, any scientific observation is compatible with theism.
If ID refers to "intelligent design theory" as opposed to the general
principle that we ought to recognize God's hand in creation [though often
don't], then Johnson seems to be maintaining a God of the gaps assumption
here.