Evolution
How awfully prideful it is to presume to know how God should or should not go about his supernatural business! How can we be so arrogant as to declare that God could not possibly have chosen to create his universe through a process we call evolution.
Intelligent Design
A perfectly good phrase completely mis-applied. Once we manage to get past the non-problem of evolution, could creation be anything but the result of intelligent design? Or do we simply declare that God is not intelligent?
Creationism
Well, there are still those who believe the world is flat five hundred years after Magellan circumnavigated it, so I guess we can expect to have Creationism with us for quite a long time.
Our greatest scientists haven’t been able to create a microbe to say nothing of true intelligence, artificial or otherwise, or to postulate a plausible first cause of the big bang or anything else. Most scientists acknowledge the parallel existence of science and the supernatural and many have come to understand that, ultimately, scientific truth and spiritual truth will prove to be a perfect unity.
Perhaps we should think very carefully before limiting God in the name of religion.
“Most scientists acknowledge the parallel existence of science and the supernatural”
How can you say that?
By its very nature science must use a process of methodological naturalism. Many scientists do have supernatural religious beliefs but they don’t allow these to come into their science. The minute they do, science stops.
Statements like “ultimately, scientific truth and spiritual truth will prove to be a perfect unity” have not place in the real search for knowledge – it presupposes that the current and past spiritual religious beliefs are true which is very arrogant. Isn’t this was the intelligent design proponents are doing – attempting to impose a religious supernatural belief on to a natural evidence-based method of discovering reality.
“‘Most scientists acknowledge the parallel existence of science and the supernatural’
How can you say that?”
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I can say it because I believe it. You express the same general idea a bit differently: “Many scientists do have supernatural religious beliefs but they don’t allow these to come into their science.”
Close enough.