Science and faith
Why the lab is not a rival priesthood, why evolution is not the whole story, and why a code and a mind still ask for an author.
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Questions
Hasn’t science made God unnecessary?
Science describes secondary causes. It does not abolish the need for a first cause, or the meaning of the whole.
Doesn’t evolution disprove God?
At most, a fully Darwinian story would tell you how biology unfolded. It would not tell you why there is a law-governed, life-permitting world, or why you are obliged to tell the truth about it.
Doesn’t the universe just look designed?
Specified, functional calibration is what we always call design when we meet it anywhere else.
Where did the first life, and the information in DNA, come from?
Natural selection needs a copier before it can select. The origin of that copier — and of the code it carries — is a different question from whether creatures change. ‘Evolution’ does not answer it.
Can a purely physical brain trust its own thinking?
If every thought is only chemistry selected for survival, then ‘true’ means ‘useful,’ not ‘so.’ A mind that can weigh arguments needs a better ground than a tool sharpened to keep a body alive.