01/04/2009

Did Darwin Kill God?

Another program on Darwin was shown on TV last night. The title: "Did Darwin Kill God?". The link to watch it again is here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00jhfwt/Did_Darwin_Kill_God/

The program was unexpectedly better than average. The main argument was that evolution, by itself, is not a challenge to God, since the scientific method has limits built into it that avoid it to be used to draw conclusions outside of science. An obvious point? Perhaps, but not one made sufficiently enough. And in order to prove his point he explains (going to different Church Fathers) that this controversy between evolution and creation is just a very recent development which started in the last century and which most christians never recognized before that. The presenter, Conor Cunningham, is, in fact, a Christian and an evolutionist, showing that both things are not complete opposites.

As an aside, it is always interesting to hear these ideas from the people involved in this battle. Among the people he interviews we can find Daniel Dennett, Francis Collins and Michael Ruse. I would've liked to hear Dawkins himself, who is mentioned a couple of times in the program as believing that evolution proves God's non-existence (I doubt he would've said that with those words - perhaps: "it makes it very improbable"). And he even gets to visit the Creation Museum in the States!

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