Re: [asa] Neo-Darwinism and God's action

On Feb 14, 2008, at 8:16 PM, Randy Isaac wrote:

> Jack Haas just drew my attention to Logan Gage's response to my
> letter in the Jan 2008 issue of CT. I would greatly appreciate your
> views on the last two paragraphs of his article. We have touched on
> randomness several times in this forum and I believe it continues to
> be one of the fundamental questions. Logan seems to believe that if
> there is divine guidance there will necessarily be evidence of non-
> randomness. Or have I misunderstood him?
>
> Randy
>

Gage said:
> If Isaac actually thinks an intelligent being can guide randomness,
> then it is up to HIM to explain how that works—not the other way
> around. I have claimed that it is impossible.

Consider radioactive decay. This occurs when quantum tunneling occurs
through either a strong or weak force potential well. This is
predicted by quantum theory to be a random process. This is observed
to be a random process. It is so random that decay is used for
hardware random number generation that is better than the pseudo-
random algorithmic ones. Therefore radioactive decay is not guided by
an intelligent being. It is according to Gage, impossible. The God of
the Bible is sovereign over everything. Even if you have an extreme
Arminian theology to the point of Open Theism, God's sovereignty is
even here only self-limited for free agents. Radioactive decay is
purely physical so God ought to be sovereign over it. If Gage is
correct then the God of the Bible not only does not exist it is
"impossible". It is Gage's and not Randy's approach to randomness that
involves a contradiction with Divine Providence.

Intelligent Design gave the New Atheists an extraordinary low bar by
merely disproving God through proving evolution. Now Logan Gage has
given an even lower bar merely by showing there exists random
processes in nature which exist in abundance. All the New Atheists
need to do now is to jump the matchboxes in the Twit Olympics:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8673742764820276775

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Received on Thu Feb 14 23:09:58 2008