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What kind of God can one infer from the sort of phenomena epitomized by the species on Darwin's Galapagos Islands? The evolutionary process is rife with happenstance, contingency, incredible waste, death, pain and horror.… The God of the Galapagos is careless, wasteful, indifferent, almost diabolical. He is certainly not the sort of God to whom anyone would be inclined to pray.
David Hull, "The God of the Galapagos", (review of book Darwin on Trial by Phillip Johnson) Nature volume 352, p. 485-6 (8 August 1991) | ||
