ABSTRACT

The argument postulating an “intelligent designer” is proposed as encompassing the whole creation. Thus analysis of a specific process of mutation or selection is not relevant to the argument. There is no reason that an intelligent designer could not allow for random events within an evolutionary process. Beyond those questions already covered in the response to the first part, the main issue of theological interest in this part is not really whether evolutionary theory necessarily excludes acceptance that there is God. It clearly does not exclude God as an explanation of why there is anything rather than nothing, neither does it require God as an explanation of why there is anything rather than nothing.