[betty boop]

...the works of God rather than the words of God, as Darwin himself is said to have put it

This is a perfectly unobjectionable statement, supposedly gratis Darwin himself. Of course the business of science is to look at the "works" -- one of the two sources of divine revelation -- for its method is addressed to the natural world. But this is not the same thing as saying that ONLY the works are real, and the word is an illusion.

However it is a fact that many neo-Darwinists say precisely that (e.g., Dawkins, Pinker, Lewontin, Dennett, Monod, et al.).

Thanks for the post, infocats!

[infocats]

and the word is an illusion.

"In the beginning...the word was God...and the word was with God"

[infocats]

and the word is an illusion.

I think I blew the quote. It should have been (I think) "In the beginning...there was the word...and the word was God...and the word was with God"