Don Corleone said it allOriginally Posted by Gawain of Orkeny
While I personally don't believe in it and you do, it has nothing to do with the issue at hand - plausibility of evolutionary thought. Divine origin of this or that is not a part of evolution or science in general, it's a matter of philosophy and religion, and the distinction should be made clear. Science cannot provide evidence about the existence (or non-existence) of God, and it shouldn't deal with those questions either as they are not the part of it in the first place. But in the same vein, one should not try to use religion and creed to pass judgements on scientific things and issues. In short, science and religion do not necessarily conflict each other, but rather they deal with different questions and using different approaches.I see nothing in it that precludes some divine force acting behind it, yet nothing that requires it either.
If it would make it more approachable to you, you can think of evolution as studying the methodology of how it all came to pass, while retaining your beliefs about how it all begun. But that doesn't mean that the answer to everything that doesn't seem logical in science comes down to a singular answer of divine intervention.
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