----- Original Message -----
From: "Iain Strachan" <igd.strachan@gmail.com>
To: "George Murphy" <gmurphy@raex.com>
Cc: "ASA" <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2005 5:18 AM
Subject: Re: Hunter on Darwin and Gnosticism (was Stereotypes and
reputations
On 7/30/05, George Murphy <gmurphy@raex.com> wrote:
> y/
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Don Nield" <d.nield@auckland.ac.nz>
> To: <mahaffy@mtcnet.net>
> Cc: <asa@calvin.edu>
> Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 9:44 PM
> Subject: Hunter on Darwin and Gnosticism (was Stereotypes and reputations
> ....................
>
> According to Behe, Hunter argues perceptively that the main supporting
> pole of the Darwinian tent has always been a theological assertion; "God
> wouldn't have done it that way."
> .............
>
> In reality this is one of the main objections of Christian
> anti-evolutionists to natural selection.
>
Yes, but it is also precisely what Richard Dawkins also says. I
believe I saw him say this on a TV programme in the UK about Science
vs Religion, which also included contributions from John Polkinghorne.
Dawkins said, if I recall correctly "If I were God, I wouldn't have
done it by evolution". I think his point was that evolution was an
awful way to do it, and led to incalculable amounts of suffering etc.
Therefore Dawkins seems to be in support of Hunter.
One of the basic human problems is the tendency to create a God in our own
image - whether we believe in that God or (as with Dawkins) don't.
Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
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