Re: Inherently anti-theistic?

Bill Hamilton (hamilton@predator.cs.gmr.com)
Thu, 8 Jun 1995 08:15:29 -0500

Lloyd Eby wrote

>I'd like to see Jonathan Wells respond to this. Jonathan wrote a Yale
>Ph.D. dissertation in theology in which he *proved* (or so he claimed --
>I didn't read the dissertation) that Darwinism is anti-theistic (again,
>if I understand correctly what he told me). If that is so, it would show
>either that a scientific theory *can* be anti-theisic, or that Darwinism,
>in so far as it contains things which speak to theology, is extra-scientific.
>
I hope Jonathan does respond. The use of the term "Darwinism" immediately
rings alarm bells. Darwinisdm is not necessarily the same as Darwin's
theory of the origin of species by natural selection.

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