“Unsurprisingly, to Darwin, God gradually came to seem less personal, benevolent, attentive, and active. Surely, such a loving, personal Deity would have created in another way (other than evolution), a way that involved less trial and error, fewer false starts, fewer mindless species extinction, fewer pointless cruelties, and less reliance on predation to sort out the fit from the unfit. Darwin arguably never lost his faith in God. Rather, he believed that God created through the evolutionary process, but his growing knowledge of that process dramatically transformed his view of God, which left him ill at ease with the anthropomorphic personal theism of his day and at odds with friends and colleagues who believed in a personal, benevolent, attentive, and active divine being.

Christians and othe theists who casually assert that God creates through evolution–as if there is no theological problem with this assertion–should pause and consider Darwin’s faith journey. Darwin was theologically more perceptive than many of his liberal endorsers. He knew that evolution puts enormous stress on the idea of God. . . .”

I have got to come to grips with prayer. I have not prayed since my Mother’s death. Not at all. I feel like I am not worthy of prayer, not worthy of an answer. Besides that, as you mention in your article, what about when you pray fervently (like I did when Mom was terminal), and your prayers are not answered? Sorry, I digress. I did enjoy the article and the response from a colleague of yours. And you are right. Maybe sometimes prayer is as simple as making someone take a different thought approach, which helps them to solve their own problems.