If you clicked on this hoping to link up with God, I'm sorry to tell you that God does not have an internet website or a blog. However, there are some resources around the web that are involved in the discussion of the interaction between science and Christianity. One of these that I have found useful is the American Scientific Affiliation.

If you have gotten this far on my website, I applaud your patience. I want to say something about the the Faith/Science debate and the controversy about origins. As you certainly know, the dominant explanation for the origin of species is Darwin's theory and its more recent modifications, the neo-Darwinian synthesis. There is no doubt that much of the data are well explained by this theory. And yet, I have some concerns.

First, the theory has become a theory of everything, which it simply cannot be. All scientific theories have limitations, so also must Darwin's. So, just as I am interested in knowing the limits of Newton's laws, so too I am interested in knowing the limitations of Darwin's theory.

Sadly, it is almost impossible to engage in a discussion of the limitations of Darwinism. It is a bit like religion and politics - never discuss them with friends. But that gives a bit of a clue, that Darwinism has become political and/or a religion for some (certainly not all) of its adherents. So, if you are interested in a discussion about some of my concerns, great, but let's agree that we will not accuse each other of idiocy just because our ideas difer.

But it is really not necessary for us to agree about the origin of living things. Just understanding how living things work provides us all with plenty of hard questions to solve without any need to resolve the question of how it all came to be.

and by the way, the driving question behind the work of the vast majority of laboratory scientists is how something works, not how it came to be. The question of origins plays a very small role in the working life of most scientific investigations.