WE ARE ALL DESIGNISTS NOW:

A Grand Bargain Over Evolution (ROBERT WRIGHT, 8/23/09, NY Times)

The first step toward this more modern theology is for them to bite the bullet and accept that God did his work remotely — that his role in the creative process ended when he unleashed the algorithm of natural selection (whether by dropping it into the primordial ooze or writing its eventual emergence into the initial conditions of the universe or whatever).

Of course, to say that God trusted natural selection to do the creative work assumes that natural selection, once in motion, would do it; that evolution would yield a species that in essential respects — in spiritually relevant respects, you might say — was like the human species.

Man, these guys aren't even trying anymore.

Posted by Orrin Judd at August 23, 2009 7:14 AM