Kenneth Miller teaches the hard biological science of evolution to university students at Brown. Invariably someone lingers after class and asks if he believes in God.
“Yes,” says Professor Miller, a Catholic Christian.
“What kind of God,” the student pursues.
“Darwin’s God,” he answers. Meaning the Creator that Darwin thought had breathed the power of
adaptation into a few life forms from which endless variations “most wonderful and most beautiful have been, and are being evolved.”
At a moment when school boards in Kansas and elsewhere want to get evolution out of the curriculum and would love to get God back in, Kenneth Miller makes no bones about having it both ways: biology gives a much fuller account of God’s methods and means than the Book of Genesis did, he says; yet the God behind his Science, Ken Miller says, is every bit as creative in the present as He was in the past.
(Hosted by Christopher Lydon)
Guests:
Kenneth Miller’s “Finding Darwin’s God: A Scientist’s Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution” in the second hour of The Connection.