... the principle barriers between the two "worlds- and one of the main issues is closing this gap. We do know that science does raise questions that it cannot itself answer. It can trace a sequence of events back to the Big Bang, but it cannot tell us why there is a universe at all, or why the cosmos is orderly and intelligible. The atheist ... . Some theologians believe the Bible provides us with scientific as well as religious understanding. However, many of them hold that the writers of the Bible were inspired to express enduring religious wisdom, not to provide scientific knowledge long...

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... forms, though of course for him the forms are not ideas in the mind of God as they were in classical thought. In other passages design space seems to be the abstract set of all genetic possibilities, with little inherent structure. In any case, the exploration of design space occurs entirely by chance. The subsequent retention of new configurations is the product ... and death which were such a challenge to the classical argument from design. Competition and death are intrinsic to an evolutionary process. Pain is an inescapable concomitant of greater sensitivity and awareness, and it pro...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate