Who Is Kenneth Miller Argument In Finding Darwin's God

For years, people have disputed over how the universe came to be. There are many different theories: Darwinists believe that evolution is what brought us here. Creationists, on the other hand, look to the creation story in the book of Genesis for their answer, stating that God created the world in only seven days, and that evolution is a lie. Kenneth Miller, author of Finding Darwin’s God, has a different theory. Miller is a Christian, but also a scientist. In his book, he observes the arguments from both sides, and ultimately concludes that creation and evolution are not meant to contradict each other; evolution actually reveals the work of God.

Miller starts off his argument by talking about how we should not look for God in the territory

of the unknown. Creationist’s claim “that the existence of life, the appearance of new species, and most especially the origins of mankind have not and cannot be explained by evolution or any other natural process” (262). They believe that we can find God in the deficiencies of science. They believe that nature is not self-sufficient, and that is what they have based their search for God on. But this is not dangerous to scientists; it is dangerous to religion. “If a lack of scientific explanation is proof of God’s existence, the counter logic is unimpeachable: a successful scientific argument is an argument against God” (266). The Creationist’s mistake is in arguing that nature cannot be self-sufficient in the forming of a new species. By arguing this they “forge a logical link between the limits of natural processes to accomplish biological change and the existence of a designer (God). In other words, they show the proponents of atheism exactly how to disprove the existence of God…” (266). By showing that evolution works, the Creationists are giving the atheists exactly what they need “to tear down that temple…this is an offer that the enemies of religion are all too happy to accept” (266).
The Creationists argument is obviously flawed. If their God exists, He acts along with natural laws and his will works through contingent events of human and natural history. “All that evolution does is to point out that the workings of natural processes are also sufficient to explain the contingent events of natural history in the past…there is neither logical nor theological basis for excluding God’s use of natural processes to originate species, ourselves included” (267). God works in mysterious ways, and we should not look for God in the deficiencies of science. We should see God in everything; “….in the bright light of human knowledge, spiritual and scientific” (267).
Another flaw of the Creationist’s is that they take the book of Genesis literally. But it is not meant to be read that way; it is, in reality, a myth. Not a myth in the false sense, but a myth in the way that it is a story that is used to explain something that we may have trouble understanding.