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But he repented on his death bed.
And this was written to refuse Rennie's nonsense.
http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/2575
http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/2575
in 1988, physicist George Greenstein wrote:
As we survey all the evidence, the thought insistently arises that some supernatural agency—or, rather, Agency—must be involved. Is it possible that suddenly, without intending to, we have stumbled upon scientific proof of the existence of a Supreme Being? Was it God who stepped in and so providentially crafted the cosmos for our benefit? (1988, p. 27).
In 1992, Arno Penzias (who fourteen years earlier had shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in physics with Robert W. Wilson for their discovery of the so-called “background radiation” left over from the Big Bang) declared:
Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, one with the very delicate balance needed to provide exactly the conditions required to permit life, and one which has an underlying (one might say “supernatural”) plan [p. 83, parenthetical comment in orig.].
In his 1994 book, The Physics of Immortality, Frank Tipler (who co-authored with John D. Barrow the massive 1986 volume, The Anthropic Cosmological Principle) wrote:
When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest dreams imagined that one day I would be writing a book purporting to show that the central claims of Judeo-Christian theology are in fact true, that these claims are straightforward deductions of the laws of physics as we now understand them. I have been forced into these conclusions by the inexorable logic of my own special branch of physics (Preface).
Which explains why so few become scientists.
It's absurd to say that Darwin "departed the Galapagos a creationist."
If you read his account in The Voyage of the Beagle, you can clearly see the way he's angling. What I see is his famous reluctance to come right out with it.
He compares the fossil and living fauna of Argentina and says, "This wonderful relationship in the same continent between the dead and the living, will, I do not doubt, hereafter throw more light on the appearance of organic beings on our earth, and their disappearance from it, than any other class of facts."
Translation, "The modern fauna obviously evolved from the extinct fauna." And this was before he even GOT to the Galapagos.
I wonder if John Gould is any kin to the late Stephen J. Gould.
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