Virtually Every Discipline And Endeavor Is Presently

Naturalism Is The View That The Physical World Is A Self-contained System That Works By Blind, Unbroken Natural Laws. Naturalism Doesn't Come Right Out And Say There's Nothing Beyond Nature. Rather, It Says That Nothing Beyond Nature Could Have Any Conceivable Relevance To What Happens In Nature. Naturalism's Answer To Theism Is Not Atheism But Benign Neglect. People Are Welcome To Believe In God, Though Not A God Who Makes A Difference In The Natural Order.

Scientists Rightly Resist Invoking The Supernatural In Scientific Explanations For Fear Of Committing A God-of-the-gaps Fallacy (the Fallacy Of Using God As A Stop-gap For Ignorance). Yet Without Some Restriction On The Use Of Chance, Scientists Are In Danger Of Committing A Logically Equivalent Fallacy-one We May Call The “chance-of-the-gaps Fallacy.” Chance, Like God, Can Become A Stop-gap For Ignorance.

How A Designer Gets From Thought To Thing Is, At Least In Broad Strokes, Straightforward: (1) A Designer Conceives A Purpose. (2) To Accomplish That Purpose, The Designer Forms A Plan. (3) To Execute The Plan, The Designer Specifies Building Materials And Assembly Instructions. (4) Finally, The Designer Or Some Surrogate Applies The Assembly Instructions To The Building Materials. What Emerges Is A Designed Object, And The Designer Is Successful To The Degree That The Object Fulfills The Designer's Purpose.

The Mechanical Philosophy Was Ever Blind To This Fact. Intelligent Design, On The Other Hand, Readily Embraces The Sacramental Nature Of Physical Reality. Indeed, Intelligent Design Is Just The Logos Theology Of John's Gospel Restated In The Idiom Of Information Theory.

The Question Rather Is How We Should Do Science And Theology In Light Of The Impending Collapse Of Enlightenment Rationalism And Scientific Naturalism. These Ideologies Are On The Way Out. They Are On The Way Out.