"The universe is a poem about God."

[telyni]

This quote caught my attention tonight as I was reading an article on a Christian site I've been frequenting lately. There's a lot of thought-provoking material there, and something I read yesterday inspired me to write something else which I may post at some point, but this quote in particular has inspired me to write something for other people to

Comments

In Defense of Evolution

[darekana]

Well, not so much in defense of evolution as science and scientists...

I think you've made the mistake of associating the theory of evolution - and science-based analyses of the natural world - with atheism and agnosticism. While there are certainly many atheist/agnostic scientists out there, there are also many who are members of some religion, and others (myself included) who certainly believe in God or a higher power without necessarily following an organized faith. Indeed, there's really nothing in evolutionary theory or even , say, big bang theory that requires the disbelief in a higher power. As they say, "the Lord works in mysterious ways." Why couldn't He have worked through evolution?

[telyni]

I started to reply to this, but then I ended up writing several paragraphs and thought that was too much for a comment, so I posted it as a separate entry.