If you have a chain of six billion enities who constitute an entity with certain characteristics, what is the liklehood of its being altered by the addition of another or by its displacing of others? Red Rover.
I found God's Funeral by A.N. Wilson useful. Have to get back to the mind set of the 1860s. Which reminds me of the term that Huxley coined: agnostic, which originally had nothing to do with the knowability of God but with Huxley's desire to distance himself from the "gnostics"-- the clerical scientists who thought of themselves as an elite class who by the application of reason were able to bridge the distance between heaven and earth. Biship Wilberforce, for instance. Newman had no trouble with Darwin, because he did not belong to that liberal protestant crowd nor to the evangelicals whose authority derpended totally on the Bible. Anyway,. I think, many scientists adopted Evolution as their own gnosis. Right or wrong, ID threatens the authority of their remote disciples , which is why they are so angry.
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