Author: John MacDonald Smith

John MacDonald Smith explains Darwinian evolution and criticises intelligent design and creationism, including Dembski, Behe and Plantinga, as pseudo-science with a political agenda and an example of religion as human creation.

John MacDonald Smith rejects the anthropic argument for God: cosmic order does not imply an Orderer, and Lee Smolin’s evolutionary cosmology offers a scientific explanation of fine-tuning without a designer.

John MacDonald Smith uses Julian Jaynes’s theory of the bicameral mind to argue that religion is a product of evolutionary brain function, not a human creation, and that theology is now obsolete.

John MacDonald Smith argues that interfaith dialogue must be a listening exchange that recognises all religion as culturally conditioned, and that the Network, lacking doctrine, is well placed to mediate it.

John MacDonald Smith questions postmodern theology’s ‘absolute subjectivity’. He holds that language connects to an objective world we explore rather than construct, while religion expresses cultural self-understanding and needs new human-centred symbols, including Jesus.