Re: [asa] Random and natural vs intelligence

On 11/6/07, Randy Isaac <randyisaac@comcast.net> wrote:
 <Citing Christianity Today>

"Theistic Darwinists maintain that God was "intimately involved" in
> creation, to use Francis Collins's words. But they also think life developed
> via genuinely random mutations and genuinely natural selection. Yet they
> never explain what God is doing in this process. Perhaps there is still room
> for him to start the whole thing off, but this abandons theism for deism."
>
>
> This is essentially the same argument that Lee Strobel used on the radio a
> few weeks ago when he firmly but respectfully rebuked Francis Collins.
> Evolution is inherently random and without guidance and is therefore
> mutually exclusive with divine guidance, he said.
>

When one draws a bow across a violin string or blows across the mouthpiece
of a flute, one is applying a genuinely random (white noise) signal, from
which the instrument naturally selects the resonant frequency and produces a
beautiful response. Thus musicians use random processes to produce music,
and yet are intimately involved in it.

Iain

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Received on Tue Nov 6 05:07:48 2007