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To: E who wrote (9922)	3/27/2001 10:38:45 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

The absolute conflict is between Darwin and and a postulated God who is omnipotent, omniscient, and beneficent. Religious doctrines differ. "In some the Deity is conceived to act directly to affect natural and human phenomena versus those in which a Providential systemic process makes life possible and beneficent without requiring Divine superintendence of details." Laurence Tribe, "Constitutional Choices" (Harvard Univ. Press 1985 p. 241-2 I guess you would be referring to the first choice to hold this idea of conflict.

To: E who wrote (9922)	3/28/2001 12:08:04 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

"This person" is the author of a well regarded biology textbook, and an authority on evolution,and an opponent of both creationism and the current arguments of "intelligent design theory", speaking under the auspices of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: Science Teaching, and the Search for Origins April 14-15, 2000 The University of Kansas Keynote Address "Finding Darwin's God: The New Battle over Evolution." Kenneth R. Miller Professor of Biology Brown University Providence, Rhode Island Not that he could not be speaking twaddle, of course......