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Agreed in totality, pal. What miller says and means don't line up, all I was going for. His "Darwin's god" is, in fact, closer to when Russell said the only god he believed in was "Spinoza's god." He might have just been paying homage. I just don't understand scientists like Miller and (to a much greater extent) Francis Collins. I don't have half the gripes with Miller that I do with Collins, who takes funding from places like the Discovery Institute and only insists the world is older than six thousand years if pressed.

Likewise, Miller's work on the "missing" chromosome between humans and other primates is some of the most (pardon the pun) damning evidence against a faith-based science, yet he bends over backwards to delineate separate magisteria (don't even get me started on Gould and the way Biblical literalists misquote him). Why?

I say that's the price of faith: Bending your observations to fit it. It doesn't make believers (in either gods or illusory wills, free or otherwise) less intelligent than deterministic reductionists, but it does make them problematic as scientists. That Collins is head of the HGP is baffling, but BYU graduates getting tenure at other university science departments is equally so.