A Catholic theologian on God and science

[muerk]

This is a book review that might interest those who are fearful that the Christians are ready to pretend that the scientific explanation of evolution doesn't exist.

In his book, however, he goes out of his way repeatedly to differentiate between evolution as the best scientific explanation we have of how species come about and evolution as an

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[aleph_naught]

The theory of natural selection demolishes one of the last empirically consequential reasons for believing in a creator God.

Most educated Christians have, in this day and age, abandoned the notion of a 'God of the Gaps' in order to avoid this problem. They don't need empirical reasons to justify their faith (but the moment an article appears in a magazine that can possibly be misconstrued as supporting their beliefs, they'll leap all over it, naturally).

It seems to me though that this theological retreat from the march of Science leaves one with a God who doesn't do anything, has no empirical consequences, and leaves no evidence whatsoever of its existence. I cannot see any epistemological difference between this and fiction.