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I have a lot of respect for Kenneth Miller and he makes many good points in the exert of his book "Finding Darwin's God". Instead of seeing science and religion as two opposing sides of the same spectrum, he views all scientific breakthroughs as a way to prove God's existence and magnificence to himself. Aristotle once said that "it takes an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" and I believe this quote sums up how Miller sees his religion. Even though his pastor and others of his religion "have sought God in darkness", he was able to hold their ideas objectively and critique them to the more self-satisfactory ideas that he holds today. Miller does not use God as an explanation for things that do not make sense to him because down the road humans might figure out the true explanations for natural phenomenon and previous beliefs might stand in the way of further scientific progress. Instead, Miller accepts that there are things in the world that humans do not currently know, but whatever the reason that something may happen proves his glory. If Christianity as a whole had held a belief similar to this, it would not have to oppose every scientific breakthrough that arises.

Miller's rebuttal of Behe's ideas also brings up a lot of issues surrounding Intelligent Design. Irreducible complexity was a good point to bring up to try and test evolutionary theory. Even though it was a good point, it has been refuted and did not need an entirely different theory created to increase its credibility. It seems as if Intelligent Design is just an explanation solely based off of one supposed issue with evolution that aligns itself with creationists in order to gain support and legitimacy. Despite being a null and void counter-point to evolution people seem to still accept it as legitimate no matter how wrong it is just so that it agrees with their most literal religious views.