I don’t think evolution and
God are incompatible as Dawkins claims. I think it is a fairly popular belief
among Christians that God simply caused the big bang, and evolution followed.
Of course there will always be the fundamentalists who stick by their literal interpretations
of the bible. But I don’t think this is reason to put anyone who believes in
God aside as someone who ignores the claims of science, as Dawkins might have
us do. I also think it’s important to understand that on the science side of
the problem there a lot of questions left unanswered. So I can certainly
empathize with people who believe there simply isn’t enough information to even
have the conversation. I think Aquinas would be unfazed by Dawkins derision. In
Dawkins response to “The Unmoved Mover” he says of regress “The only escape is
God.” And isn’t that why many people continue to believe in God as the creator
of the universe? Science hasn’t found a better answer to the question. Even the
Physics which claim to have theories are all based on metaphysics. Dawkins need
to provide a superior alternative to God, which he fails to do.
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