Does evolution disprove God?

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No. Evolution is a theory about the mechanism of how life diversified - and describing a mechanism does not tell you why there is a universe, with laws and finely balanced constants, for any mechanism to operate in at all. The deepest questions - why anything exists, why the physics permits life, the origin of consciousness and of moral obligation - sit upstream of biology.

On the biology itself, faithful Christians in our tradition genuinely differ, and Apologia Daily does not bind the faith to any one view. Old-earth, young-earth, and evolutionary-creationist believers all hold the Nicene faith in common while differing on these natural-historical questions. The doctrine of creation is the confession that all things depend on God as their source; it is not, by itself, a verdict on the mechanism by which living things arose. 'The heavens declare the glory of God' (Psalm 19:1) whatever that mechanism turns out to be.

Where design arguments do engage biology - for instance the intelligent-design case from the Cambrian explosion, that new animal body plans required new biological information best explained by a mind - candor is required: that is a philosophical inference, not a scientific consensus. The overwhelming majority of biologists who study the event read it as a fascinating, still partly-unsolved chapter within evolutionary history, and some of the argument's key estimates are disputed by qualified specialists. It is a live and interesting question, best held with humility, and not a proof that 'scientists agree life was designed,' which they do not.

So a Christian need not stake the reasonableness of faith on this particular debate. Evolution, true or not, leaves the deepest foundations of the case for God untouched.

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