Hi Moose,
He believes God had some contribution to the selection process, but makes no claim of being able to produce evidence in support of that belief.
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If God were to have been guiding evolution, would God have chosen or otherwise permitted the evolutionary history that we know as reality.
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God influencing the origin and development of the species not unlike how humans have influenced the origin and development of the dog.
It may be a little more complex than that:
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Message 1: How can sceintists accept a belief in natural selection as superior to my belief in the supernatural's continuous creation as the cause of evolution.
Message 48: I argue that if God by providence has created the mechanisms for the evolution of life science rejects this because it cannot be proven by natural means.
Continuous creation would be the whole process, not just the selection, but the control of the environment that leads to the selection.
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Message 48: So if for example information is contained in the DNA, science assumes it is by natural causes, while I state it is by supernatural causes. Can you prove me wrong and you right? If so how.
So Scientists assume that the changes in species are natural and try to prove them by saying here we see the changes, they are natural, so design is wrong. But even if the changes occur, which I agree they do, science cannot prove they are by natural means or supenatural means. Science assumes all things are by natural means, w/o proof, a very dangerous assumption.
Controlling the nature of
"natural means" would be a supernatural means that would not be able to be detected.
An interesting concept.
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