Evolution: Intelligent by Design (or Not)

"One beauty of Darwinism is the intellectual freedom it allows. As the arch-evolutionist Richard Dawkins has observed, 'Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.' But Darwinism permits you to be an intellectually fulfilled theist, too. That is why Pope John Paul II was comfortable declaring that evolution has been 'proven true'' and that 'truth cannot contradict truth.' If God created the universe wholesale rather than retail à ³ endowing it from the start with an evolutionary algorithm that progressively teased complexity out of chaos à ³ then imperfections in nature would be a necessary part of a beautiful process." à ³ "Unintelligent Design" by Jim Holt in the New York Times Magazine