Paisano wrote:
You make a strawman arguemnt against Newtonian deterministic materialism using QM ? It even more strongly refutes the 18th century notions of a need for a "divine watchmaker", by demonstrating that the physical universe has more than enough indeterminacy to accomodate something like evolution.
Good point. Since the name Newton came up, let me add an ironic twist that Newton did just what ID wants modern scientists to do with gaps in knowledge. When Newton couldnt completely explain apparent irregularities in the orbits of planets, he allowed God to step in and nudge them into their "proper" orders. Then that damn "materialist" Einstein came up with some ideas, "only theories" of course, that largely solved the problems Newton encountered.
Im sure God was pretty pissed, because Newton put him in charge of pushing the planets a long time ago, and he had been doing a great job of it. It wasnt respectful to force God to scuttle off like that to other dark places like the "improbability of abiogenesis."