I believe we are at the core of the issue. Scientists can observe randomness in nature because they can’t see exactly what’s feeding in these changes. However, whether the thing is truly random is yet to be verified. My view is God would never let something happen by chance. He is in total control. So there must be something else, some design perhaps, that is causing these changes.
This isn’t much of an issue to me. I don’t see a problem with God creating a self-organizing system that uses random events to produce outcomes that He wants. He designed it all with foreknowledge, anyway.
I think there is danger in saying that He actively directs seemingly random occurrences, however. Danger both in the possibility that we’re talking about a God who makes something look random when it is not, and in the possibility that we’re making God guilty of making errors along the way to a defined goal.
I think, instead, that God takes delight in a certain amount of spontaneity, just as we do. I think He takes delight in our own free willed actions, and that sort of delight is not unrelated to the type of delight He might gain from seeing what comes about through a less directed system.
Adaptation and isolation have produced speciation.
I said nothing about the molecule DNA. I said God created the language of DNA.
Then I think we’re in agreement, buffalo. We agree, I think, that the evolutionary process is possible, even likely, the method God used to make the various living organisms we see. He authored all, and He is in His own creation, not just the Lawmaker but the Law. And I think He wants us to find wonder in the amazing complexity and scope of the system He created, so much greater than us in time and space and so far beyond our ability to truly control, with endless discoveries awaiting us because He used these methods. We can even take continual wonder at how organisms continue to evolve, as He continues to create, to make new life, through evolution. That is why I think evolution glorifies God all the more. And why I think it is ridiculous error to think that evolution could possibly exist without God, ridiculous to think that God did not design evolution and intend its outcomes.
No, God created the rules of chemistry and physics, knowing they would result in DNA and life.
Amen!
Unlike starting the ‘process’ and then stepping back, God willed each one of us. The ‘process’ was not independent of Him. Further, it cannot be fully explained, except dimly, by science.
Science can explain a lot about it, just not the “why.”
I completely agree that God willed each one of us, and that the process was not independent of Him. Evolution does not oppose either of those.
