> May I ask if Bill rules out God intervening at strategic
>points in natural history? For example, the origin of life, the origin
>of new designs, the origin of humans?
There is high probability that God intervenes in natural history but I
think he does it by powerful applications of the wonderful physical
relationships he has built into this universe - using powers and
techniques we don't understand. If this universe is a reflection of God's
perfection and his best shot at universe-creating <G> then to suspend or
countermand the physical constants and relationships is less than perfect
and thus sin. In other words, I don't believe God does magic tricks.
"For followers of Karl Popper's analysis of science and how it should be
done, there is no more dismal example of a metaphysical system
masquerading as a science than the theory of evolution. Popper himself,
in
The Poverty of Historicism, singles out evolutionary theory for an
attack.
"Can there be a law of evolution?" "No, the search for the law of the
'unvarying order' in evolution cannot possibly fall within the scope of
scientific method...". By this, Popper means only that the history of
living
organisms and their transformations on Earth are a specific sequence of
unique events, no different from, say, the history of England. Since it
is a
unique sequence, no generalities can be constructed about it." (Lewontin
R.C., "Testing the Theory of Natural Selection," review of Creed R., ed.,
"Ecological Genetics and Evolution," Blackwell: Oxford, 1971, Nature,
Vol. 236, March 24, 1972, p.181).
I agree 100%. Darwinism, as well as creationism, are metaphysical
systems.
As Jesus said, "Sometimes stuff just happens," Luke 13:4, billwald
paraphrase.
billwald@juno.com
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