Published in the MB Herald, On The Legacy of Charles Darwin, April 1, 2009, Glen R. Klassen.
When I do science as a Christian, I do exactly the same experiments that would be done by non-theistic scientists. But while they may believe that the laws of nature are godless, impersonal and automatic governors of nature, I am free to believe that they are nothing less than the expression of the faithfulness of God. God is utterly consistent in everything he does. But intelligent design proponents want to put biology back into the realm of mystery and miracle. I think that this is premature. There is a good chance that we can see the faithfulness of God even in the evolution of the cell by natural selection….
Intelligent design proponents should be careful not to abandon naturalistic explanations too quickly because there is good reason to think that God wants the world to be intelligible to us.
The order that is in the world appears to point, like the order that is the Cummins engine in a tractor, to a mind. The disorder we sometimes see is not surprising in a natural world, it as wonder it doesn’t go off kilter more. A generally hands off approach in appearance, while still being the glue that holds it all together.
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