«If the
word «random» necessarily entails the idea that some events are «unguided» in the sense of falling «outside the bounds of divine providence,» we should have to condemn as incompatible with Christian faith a great deal of
modern physics, chemistry, geology, and astronomy, as well as
biology,» he wrote.
We concede that not all who doubt the existence of a personal God do so because they accept the theory of evolution, whether the
word be restricted to
biology or enlarged to its cosmic significance, but we do say, and from experience know, that most
modern agnosticism is bound up with those non-theistic philosophies of evolution that stream off from Hegel as their
modern fountain - head.