Religion and Science
5. Religion and Science
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nature of life, we do not need to believe in a
conscious God, modern studies having ‘proved’
that life automatically patterns itself along certain
material lines: reproduction, variation and selective
survival. That is, through reproduction, living
creatures continue to be born, certain congenital
variations go on developing, then after a long and
complicated process of mutation, an altogether new
species comes into being. Thus, according to the
antagonists of religion, the application of Darwin’s
principle of natural selection in biology has made it
not only possible but imperative to reject outright
the concept of God’s hand in life’s development.
The supposition that the various species of living
creatures have come into being through a gradual
process of evolution has yet to be established as a fact,
but even were we to give credence to this theory, it
could still be said with equal conviction, that this is
God’s chosen way of creation, rather than its being the
result of a blind, automatic force. Mechanical
evolution can easily be proved to be a creational
evolution. This being so, those anti-religionists who
refer to science for support have no genuine basis on
which to reject this argument of creational evolution.
