RE: [asa] Behe on TE... WAS Theological Naturalism

Thanks John. Wow did you type out the whole passage, or scan and copy it...must've taken some time!
   
  The last paragraph is direct:
  "Those who worry about “interference” should relax. The purposeful design of life to any degree is easily compatible with the idea that, after its initiation, the universe unfolded exclusively by the intended playing out of natural laws. The purposeful design of life is also fully compatible with the idea of universal common descent, one important facet of Darwin’s theory. What the purposeful design of life is not compatible with, however, is Darwin’s proposed mechanism of evolution–random variation and natural selection–which sought to explain the development of life explicitly with out recourse to guidance or planning by anyone or anything at any time."
   
  So it is really Darwinian evolution, and not evolution in general, that Behe is arguing against? Does he not argue against other types of evolution and speak about their limits also in Edge of Evolution? Is it presumable that what he rejects in Darwin is purposeless evolution or meaningless evolution or materialistic evolution, i.e. atheistic evolution?
   
  He says Theistic Evolution is not compatible with Darwinism. Yet a respected foe like Michael Ruse suggests a person can be a Darwinist and also a Christian. Yet Darwin wasn't a Christian. And neither is Ruse. So who should we accord authority too?
   
  G. Arago
  

John Walley <john@walley-world.org> wrote:
      I found this today in the last chapter of Behe’s book. It is his distinction between TE and Darwinism that I though some may find interesting.
   
  John
   
  The Edge of Evolution
  By Michael J. Behe
  Pages 229-232
   
              But the assumption that design unavoidably requires “interference” rests mostly on a lack of imagination. There’s no reason that the extended fine-tuning view I am presenting here necessarily requires active meddling with nature any more than the fine-tuning of theistic evolution does - Behe
   
  God directs the evolutionary process by determining the outcome of quantum processes involved in mutations - is one way of dealing with the randomness issue. I wonder if Behe would be willing to accept something like that. - George Murphy

       
 
              
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Received on Tue Jul 24 22:42:10 2007