Notable Quotes
"I will hazard the prediction that when we look back on the 20th century from, let's say, the 23rd century, our knowledge of biochemistry and of the complexity of life will have advanced to the point that the theory that life could originate without informed intervention will be seen as an area of naivete in 20th-century thinking. The basic concept of abiogenesis originated before we had a sophisticated understanding of the cell. Each new discovery in molecular biology makes the challenge to the theory of abiogenesis more serious. This is not a repeat of the god-of-the-gaps phenomenon; it is the opposite. Two hundred years ago, the action of God was invoked to explain things not otherwise understood. As more information accumulated, it became clear that the problem could be solved by the action of natural law. Today's advances in biochemistry are not reducing the problems for abiogenesis. The more information accumulates on the nature of life, the more it indicates that natural law does not have the answer to the origin of life."
Leonard Brand, Faith, Reason, & Earth History, pp. 108-109
Terms
Informed intervention (interventionism) The paradigm of philosophy that accepts the possibility of Divine intervention in history, especially in the origin of life forms.
