ABSTRACT
Charles Darwin’s own portrait of nature evolving is at least able to communicate a sense of real life with all the novelty, disturbance, and drama it involves. To invoke the idea of intelligent design and the implied idea of an Intelligent Designer as though these are legitimate categories in scientific understanding is a clear violation of scientific method. The scientific objections to intelligent design are entirely justified. But what strikes the theologian after reading Behe’s book is that if Darwinian Theory is wanting in the full explanation of life, then so also is the notion of intelligent design. Ironically, neither the proponents of intelligent design nor their materialist opponents actually deal with life. Evolutionary science compels theology to reclaim features of religious faith that are all too easily smothered by the deadening disguise of order and design. In any case, the notion of God as an intelligent designer is inadequate.
