Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Indeed ...

... Phillip Johnson, Put Down that Kool-Aid! (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

I have long thought that the problem with ID theory is its notion of God as some everlasting Edison puttering about in His celestial laboratory.

I can't help thinking that this is a passage from Aquinas that has somehow eluded our evangelical Darwinists:

Nature is nothing but the plan of some art, namely a divine one, put into things themselves, by which those things move towards a concrete end: as if the man who builds up a ship could give to the pieces of wood that they could move by themselves to produce the form of the ship. (Commentary on Physics II.8, lecture 14, no. 268; h/t Mariano Artigas)

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