We should maintain that if an interpretation of any word in any religion leads to disharmony and does not positively further the welfare of the many, then such an interpretation is to be regarded as wrong; that is, against the will of God, or as the working of Satan or Mara.

Buddhadasa Bikkhu, a Thai Buddhist Monk


Monday, June 27, 2011

An Article of Blind Belief

The classical neo-Darwinian explanation of the development of life on Earth...has been to assign it totally to the sifting and preservation through the process of natural selection of the effects of small random genetic mutations.  No reasonable person doubts that this is a component of the history of life but that it is the sole and and totally adequate cause of all that has happened is simply an article of blind belief.

John Polkinghorne,
Belief in God in an Age of Science
page 94