Does Darwinism Equal "No God"?

First off, I have to echo Holmes' sentiments. He summed up my own view perfectly. Did they make a distinction between Designer and Creator? Or did they only use the term Designer? It could be that they are simply denying a divine hand-holding of creation as it progresses...If they are suggesting that "Evolution suggests that God does not exist", then they are severely mistaken. However, it is not an uncommon attitude amongst non-theistic scientists I have known. But then I know just as many theistic scientists.I think the problem comes when theists spend too long hanging onto one element of creation as obvious proof of God's hand in the matter. When a naturalistic explanation is forthcoming, there is a natural backlash amongst the non-theists.

ROFL Couldn't put it better myself!Sorry Randman, no disrespect, but this is the crux.What happens the day we find incontravertible proof of our God's existence? What happens to Heb 11v1?

Mutations appear random to scientific observation. Does this mean they are random from God's POV? Not necessarily. I don't know. I have no way of knowing. Hence, who cares? I have my science. I have my faith. Simple as that.I can almost imagine God running the universe, allowing it to come up with whatever advanced biological organisms it can muster, and God then using them as the vessels of the souls He distributes out. Just think, we could all be walking cuttlefish creatures Sorry, this is a science forum... I'll be quiet now.

True, I see God's principles AS nature and AS quantum mechanics. Anything else smacks of the Wizard of Oz hiding behind his curtain, operating the levers. I also do not believe God has greasy hands, and thus I do not believe He leaves fingerprints.

No, I just use it as a counterpoint to the more usual watchmaker's scratches, or artist's brushstrokes. I regard anything that is spiritual as precisely that: spiritual... not physical.I understand your position and it makes perfect sense... except for one slight problem. There is zero evidence of the universe working this way. We have theories at both ends of the length scale spectrum that measure up to observation to incredible degrees of accuracy, without having to take any account of some form of spiritual interaction. One of these theories is probably out most advanced form of QM. I just do not see the spiritual realm connecting so blatently to the physical world.This is a new God of the Gaps, trying to find room in our physical theories for a spiritual connection. You have centred upon QM as the hiding place for this conncetion, yet its presence is not shown in any experiment ever carried out, nor in any theoretical work. You are free to hope that as the precision of our experiments grows, this presence will be revealed. But don't be too surprised if you find others hard to convince and yourself alone in this hope.

Only naively. Only naively. Only naively.