Re: chance is incompatible with God's creation? (was Complexity of

Matthew Heaney (matthew_heaney@acm.org)
Tue, 09 Nov 1999 07:04:11 -0500

Glenn said:

>>Any debate about whether "God is compatible with chance" is strictly a
>>theological debate. It has nothing to do with evolutionary theory.
>
> Au contraire. The entire creation/evolution debate IS a theological debate.

Je ne suis pas d'accord. It is a debate among some theologians, but not
among scientists.

When biologists are at their day jobs, trying to answer questions about
biology, they don't spend any time debating whether their findings are
in conflict with God or any other supernatural entity.

(Of course, many scientists are religious, so maybe they do think about
God along the way, but they certainly don't discuss that in their
scientific publications.)

--Evolution is as well documented as any phenomenon in science, asstrongly as the earth's revolution around the sun rather than viceversa.

Stephen Jay Gould, Time, 23 Aug 1999