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The piece by Kenneth Miller about __Finding Darwin’s God__ is an incredibly accurate piece that offers a third point of view in the debate of science and religion. In this piece Miller never explicitly takes sides, but points out the faults in the creationist argument that are clearly, and easily dispelled by basic science. Miller was raised catholic and had a communion as a young boy. It was at this communion that we are shown a flawed creationsit argument. His priest, Father Murphy, says that “’Look at the beauty of a flower, … Not a single person in the world can tell us what makes a flower bloom. All those scientists in their laboratories, the ones who can split the atom and build jet planes and televisions, well, not one of them can tell you how a plant makes flowers.’” Father Murphy is trying to claim that anywhere science falls short, that must be the work of god. But when science does catch up creationists are left without n explanation. They need to consider that god is less involved in the everyday happenings of our lives. Perhaps he didn’t create every single thing on earth, but perhaps he put things in place for man to create some of those things on his own. If god had created everything on earth, then how is it that we our world has changed so much from 1000 years ago to now? As miller put’s it: “His assumption was that God is best found in territory unknown, in the corners of darkness that have not yet seen the light of understanding. These, as it turns out, are exactly the wrong places to look.”