Q&A: Does God Play Dice?
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Does God Play Dice?
Question
You wrote in the book that God directs the process of natural selection so that it reaches the desired results. I was wondering:
- Do you think He also directs natural selection in bacteria that have no connection whatsoever to humans (let’s say)? After all, seemingly they have no benefit, so He should seemingly have let them go extinct and that would be that.
- Do you think it’s possible to measure this influence experimentally? (Of course, if there were such an experiment, the scientist presumably wouldn’t attribute the results to God, but still.)
Thanks in advance. And thank you for the wonderful and enlightening book.
Answer
Thank you.
- There is no specific intervention here. The laws of nature were created by Him, and they ensure that the process leads to the emergence of life and of human beings. So all of creation and the animal world are directed by Him, not only humanity. By the way, bacteria have many important roles.
- What influence? The laws themselves are the influence, and that is what experiments measure all the time.