National Center for Science Education reports on Michael Heller’s press conference upon receiving the Templeton Prize for Progress Towards Research or Discoveries About Spiritual Realities – Heller said:
“Adherents of the so-called intelligent design ideology commit a grave theological error. They claim that scientific theories, that ascribe the great role to chance and random events in the evolutionary processes, should be replaced, or supplemented, by theories acknowledging the thread of intelligent design in the universe. Such views are theologically erroneous. They implicitly revive the old manicheistic error postulating the existence of two forces acting against each other: God and an inert matter; in this case, chance and intelligent design. There is no opposition here. Within the all-comprising Mind of God what we call chance and random events is well composed into the symphony of creation.”
Any anyway, the Templeton folks don’t believe “Intelligent Design” is sound.
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People believe in random events because they can’t mentally grasp the epic scope of the universe and how many things are going on in the same instant.
There is nothing random. Everything is cause and effect. Knowing that, people who believe that natural selection and evolution are anything other than an extention of that are in denial bordering on dementia.
Secondly, people who call themselves Christians but take the churches word for the scope of the teachings of Christ are hypocrites. There are more than one gospel that was excluded from the ‘official bible’ in which Jesus all but says that God is a metaphor for faith in yourself and that Heaven and Hell are metaphors for the life you create for yourself based on the life you lead.