is both “thoroughly naturalistic” and “nonteleological.” But which form of naturalism does “thoroughly naturalistic” entail? If only minimal or methodological naturalism, then a number of theistic worldviews

as the result of a natural process, natural selection , without any need to resort to a Creator or other external agent. The origin and adaptation of organisms in their profusion and wondrous variations were thus brought into the realm of

variation and selection. Natural selection was proposed by Charles Darwin in his 1859 publication, The Origin of Species . It is a process that promotes or maintains adaptation by filtering out among the variations in progeny

and God's action in natural biological processes should not be any exception to that. MS. WERTHEIM: The controversy over biological evolution began in 1859, when Charles Darwin published his monumental book, On the Origin of Species by

and discovered the process, natural selection , by which they evolve. But the import of Darwin's achievement is that it completed the Copernican revolution initiated three centuries earlier, and thereby radically changed our conception of the

to Darwin (such as natural selection makes might right in social policy) were actually not advocated but repudiated by Darwin and his immediate colleagues. Nor have ensuing generations of self-professed Darwinians and modern evolutionary

to the explanations of the natural sciences...sociobiology can account for the very origin of mythology by the principle of natural selection acting on the genetically evolving material structure of the human brain. If this interpretation is

theory of evolution by natural selection . More red herring. Third, merely lacking an explanation of life’s origin is not evidence for design. [And ID advocates are sophisticated enough to agree with this completely.] One complaint

there to observe what either natural selection or a designer did in natural history). Intelligent design's historical roots do not ramify through young earth creationism. Rather, our roots go back to the tradition of British natural theology

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