<<I keep asking the same question. If God can intervene directly and
supernaturally in human history (against a general background of normal,
regular, historical process), why cannot God intervene directly in biological
history (against a general background of normal, regular, biological
process)?>>
And Glenn responded:
<<I think God didn't need to get involved in biological life regularly. I
think he was smart enough to program the information into the fabric of the
universe from the start.>>
I'm glad God gets credit for some smarts here, but I keep thinking this God is
too small. How much more complex is the pattern we see. How much more in need
of divine directive is that pattern.
For example, there has been some discussion of the reptile-mammal jaw-ear
idea. The end product of mutation?
"But what kind of mutations could bring about these major changes? Could cause
a tube to roll up into a helix? Could cause other tubes to form semi-circular
cnals accurately set at right angles to each other? Could grade sensory hairs
according to length? Could cause the convenient deposit of a crystal in the
one place it will register gravity? Even more amazingly, some fishes do not
trouble to secrete a crystal but incorporate a bit of sand or stone. What kind
of mutation could achieve this--when and only when a natural crystal is not
formed? The purpose is fulfilled, the means are unimportant. It just doesn't
make sense." (Taylor, "The Great Evolution Mystery," pt. 106)
Doesn't make sense indeed.