Evolution: Is This Progress?

So, Whit, are you espousing some sort of God of the Gaps idea? I've often thought this was a particularly demeaning approach to including God in the scientific discussion. After all, part of scientific progress has been the gradual closing down of more and more places where God might be located, each time making Him appear like some Grapes of Wrath immigrant, uprooted again, tiredly loading His heavenly goods on a broken down truck, searching for some plot of earth that will sustain His own.

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