God after Darwin

• Evolutionary biology claims that organisms and species are the product of three main factors: 
• accidental variations or mutations, 
• blind natural selection, 
• and an enormous amount of time. 

This Darwinian recipe for the unfolding of life on Earth raises difficulties about the idea of God.

 For if "God" means simply an "intelligent designer," even an elementary perusal of the fossil record and the inelegant ways of evolution raises theological difficulties. 

Debates about God and evolution are usually so obsessed with the idea that God is a "designer" that the experience of God as infinite self-giving love that opens up a new future for the world, goes unnoticed. 

Biblical literalists and atheistic evolutionists alike seldom think of God as promising, humble, self-giving love.

A God whose essence is love would not overwhelm the world with recurring tragedy and endless pain.

A world that is perfectly "designed" from the outset would be incompatible with the biblical notion of creation. In fact, the whole thrust of Biblical literature is to have us look for perfection not in the world's past or present but in its future, an argument that we are living in a simulation.

This means that creation and its evolutionary unfolding would be less the consequence of divine engineering than of God's humble and loving "letting be." In other words, God is the ground of possibility, a God who creates by opening up a new future for the world. Divine care means granting the world space and time to become itself. 

More arguments for the 'we are living in a simulation' theory.

One worries for one's children that s/he God, is a competent engineer