…the insight that Darwin's theory has given science is that intelligence arose from matter as an emergent property, not the other way around. So it's completely backwards to picture matter arising from intelligence, rather than intelligence arising from matter.
Except that Darwin's theory doesn't claim that all intelligence arose from matter or that al intelligence had to so arise. Darwinian theory is compatible with God as the ground of all existence, and thus with the view that an intelligence is the first efficient cause of all matter and material processes. You seem to be extrapolating a philosophical principle from a scientific one, like the guy who reads a little bit of quantum mechanics and then decides that the law of the excluded middle has been debunked. Darwinism does not imply naturalism, for there is nothing logically contradictory about a God who creates a universe in which are included processes of natural selection and random variation.
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Re: religious darwinists
Date: 2010-11-29 09:29 pm (UTC)Except that Darwin's theory doesn't claim that all intelligence arose from matter or that al intelligence had to so arise. Darwinian theory is compatible with God as the ground of all existence, and thus with the view that an intelligence is the first efficient cause of all matter and material processes. You seem to be extrapolating a philosophical principle from a scientific one, like the guy who reads a little bit of quantum mechanics and then decides that the law of the excluded middle has been debunked. Darwinism does not imply naturalism, for there is nothing logically contradictory about a God who creates a universe in which are included processes of natural selection and random variation.