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This essay on the debate between evolution and design points out that many of the objections to the idea of the world being designed made by Scientists are actually religious and philosophical, relying on a specific (and naively idealistic) view of God's character. In a sense, men picture how they would want the creation to be like, extrapolate that desire into a "perfect" version, and impute that vision to God. While the author fingers a specific Roman Catholic scholastic for propagating the "God is better than what we can imagine as being good", Roman Catholic literature directed to laymen of that era uniformly project such an attitude.
In such a system, self-revelation of God is not permitted: Science doesn't want that self-revelation, since then God would be manifested, but neither does a religion that untruthfully projects God as "a perfect man", in the way that Job's friends and Elihu imputed behaviors to God in an effort to "Buff Him up". In the end, God revealed Himself to Job, then rebuked those men for lying about Him while justifying Job's honest attempt at dealing with God-as-revealed-by-Himself by way of His actions.
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