2. The Statement's description of evolution as an "unsupervised,
impersonal ... process" (paragraph 5) is *not* religiously neutral.
Science is unable to determine whether or not evolution is
"unsupervised."
During a much deserved tribute to Carl Sagan's life this morning, National
Public Radio discussed Sagan's lack of belief in the afterlife. But,
interestingly, they quoted Sagan as saying that he was not an atheist --
for he would need to know much more than he does to assert God's
nonexistence. Fair enough. But the sad fact is that one of the best known
and most able science communicators of the last third of the twentieth
century spent his entire professional life convincing those who would
listen, millions and millions (if not "billions and billions"), that the
entire universe, including life itself, is an "unsupervised, impersonal
... process."
Gordon Simons