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By Kenneth R. Miller
 * Finding Darwin's God **

To put it bluntly, as Kenneth Miller did several times in his article //Finding Darwin’s God//, this was the most interesting, enlightening piece I have read to date. Its pure, unbiased, meticulous reasoning and personal opinions on the intentions regarding modern social views of religion versus evolution were impenetrably convincing to me.

Miller’s best argument comes when he points out that modern Creationists’ biggest problem was to try and fit God into where science has not yet explained a phenomena in nature. He uses his pastor as a symbol for modern creationist views, stating that, “[His] error, common and widely repeated, was to seek God in what science has not yet explained. 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. ” Indeed it has begun to seem that undermining God’s existence in life becomes modern religions only weapon against scientific fact. “Putting it bluntly, the creationists have sought God in darkness. What we have not found and do not yet understand becomes their best - indeed their only - evidence for the divine.” The reality of the situation is that according to Kenneth Miller God has granted us the ability to discover what makes the world go ‘round. Later Miller explains that, “To a believer, the particular history leading to us shows how truly remarkable we are, how rare is the gift of consciousness, and how precious is the chance to understand. ” I totally agree with this reasoning. It makes complete sense that God would not have granted our race the ability to solve the mysteries of the universe if he did not want us to do so.

Kenneth Miller offers a reasonable suggestion to this dilemma, stating that, “if God is real, we should be able to find him somewhere else - in the bright light of human knowledge, spiritual and scientific. ”

Regarding the aspect of evolution, one insightful piece of information Miller gives to kind of remind us of where we stand. “We are all winners in the game of natural selection. //Current//    winners, we should be careful to say. ” If nature somehow changes, in favor of another species adaptations to its environment, we get bumped down a notch, or more.