Originally Posted by Samuel Harris
Evolution just means that a population of any species will have countless varitions and some will be better adapted to reproduce. Dogs didn't evolve from wolves. Dogs are wolves. Man not nature selected dogs for what you see today. And just look at the variations in dogs achieved in just a few hundred years of manipulation. Now just imagine what millions of generations will do to a species. It's enough to make a dinasaur turn into a bird. Yes we evolved. It is obvious. Does God still fit into this mystery? I think so. We are as species just emerging from the mire of igornance.


Well said.

I would say one thing different...not "does god 'fit in' to this mystery...(yes)..."...

...but that because, when we dwell for a moment, let ourselves feel some of the AWE from all this mystery and beauty and complexity--it is THAT much harder to imagine a godless universe.


Fate doesn't hang on a wrong or right choice
Fortune depends on the tone of your voice

-The Divine Comedy (Neil Hannon)
from the song "Songs of Love"
from the album "Casanova" (1996)