Does the Evolutionary Narrative Tend to Support Theism?

Talk by Prof. Simon Conway Morris FRS
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#FaradayInstitute Summer Course 2020: Telling A Better Story - Why Faith and Science Belong Together

Wednesday 1st July A better story about origins (day 2)
10.00 am Does the evolutionary narrative tend to support theism? – Prof. Simon ConwayMorris FRS
2.00 pm Does evolutionary anthropology show that humans are distinctive? – Dr Cara WallScheffler

Live-streaming 1st July 2020 10:00am BST

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Abstract
We are products of evolution, but the only species on this planet that either knows this or has the
least interest in tracing our Darwinian genealogy. One consequence of this genealogy seems to be that as we are but one tiny twig on the Tree of Life so we are correspondingly of utter insignificance.
Darwinian mediocrity, if you like, rather than Copernican mediocrity. But that is not the only
perspective. Just as the cosmos seems strangely well ordered, so one can argue that evolution rides
on deeper levels of organization that may mean that its outcomes are much more constrained than
most neo-Darwinians believe. So something like a human might be a far more likely outcome process
of the evolutionary than is sometimes thought. Evolutionary convergence suggests exactly this. But as mentioned above only we understand evolution and this is only one example of not only scientific
knowledge but a general mentality that separates us from animals. Is this "gap" a false perspective or
is there something about us that is genuinely different?
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