In your response to David Campbell, you state,
"... A truly fundamental theory of evolution will then be predictive
as it is in
> physics and so life will be predicted to occur from nonliving matter and
> nonliving matter can be predicted to evolve into the complexity that we
> observe at the micro level and its manifestation at the macro level.
> Certainly such an ambition theory does not include God. Of course, I do
> not
> believe that such a theory exists. "
>
Even if such a theory would exist (and I agree with you that it does
not), I would maintain that it would only hold because God sustains and
upholds the universe and that, without Him, the universe would operate in a
pseudo-random (imperfect random) fashion or cease to exist.
Chuck Vandergraaf
Pinawa, MB