INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 638 Amsterdam, January 16th, 2017 OUR DNA AS PROOF FOR GOD'S EXISTENCE? - Review of Perry Marshall's "Evolution 2.0: Breaking the Deadlock Between Darwin and Design" - FRANK VISSER Creationists are always on the lookout for things "science can't explain". Given the way science proceeds, this strategy unavoidably leads them to retreat backwards to smaller and smaller islands of supposed mystery. At first, species were supposed to be created by God. Then, it was conceded some variation within species could occur, but the "basic types" remained. Others have conceded the evolution of species, one from the other, all the way down to the last common ancestor: a bacterial cell. But perhaps that first living cell was the result of a divine creation? Until again science proceeds to enter into that domain as well and finds clues (though not yet final answers) to that ageless question of the origin of life. But then perhaps God created his universe with exactly the right parameters, "fine-tuned for life", so that billions of years later, on some tiny planet in a backward corner of the universe, life could arise? Other creationists accept the general scientific story of life's evolution, but see the hand of God in either a few decisive interventions, such as the evolution of brainy humans from their ape-like ancestors, or a more pervasive, "gentle push" throughout evolution in support of higher consciousness. These directed or guided versions of evolution are, typically, never specified as to their precise mechanism—nor could they ever be, given God's mysterious ways. The last straw of these creationists often is saying that evolution is just God's way of creating. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/visser97.html