Craig Rusbult writes
>But moving from this to saying the process actually IS unguided and
>unplanned requires a metaphysical/religious INTERPRETATION, and this goes
>beyond the science.
> This distinction is clearly made by many authors (Miller, Gray, Haarsma,
>Russell,...) in "Perspectives on an Evolving Creation" and elsewhere.
> But a deistic (or atheistic) interpretation is comm on, and was endorsed
>by the National Association for Biology Teachers (from 1995 to 1997) when
>they declared evolution to be an "unsupervised" process, thereby declaring
>that "natural" means "without God." ( The story is at
>http://www.asa3.org/ASA/education/origins/nabt.htm )
> Does the cardinal clarify this in the rest of his statement?
Unfortunately, he does not.
Bill Hamilton
William E. Hamilton, Jr., Ph.D.
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