God vs Science

[Angrboda]

For much of western history it has been the business of natural theology to examine the facts of nature and see if in some way they might point toward God. In the post-Darwinian epoch, the only thing that is abundantly clear is that the arrows all point back in upon nature, and that Laplace's beautiful hypothesis which explained much has turned out to be a crude myth that explains nothing. It's disingenuous to suggest that science has encroached upon religion, or that the two should remain separate, for it has been religion's continued insistence on the existence of an intercessor god which has put the two at odds, and pitched them in a battle which religion appears to be losing badly. And the reason for this is obvious to any traditional religionist, for a god denuded of specific interference with creation is not a god at all, but simply takes its place among the other mute and impersonal forces of nature. The deist god, is a god in name only. One might more justifiably call gravity or conservation of momentum gods, as they are as impartial to the specifics of individual existence as the deist god.