“If we take seriously the word-flesh Christology of Chalcedon (i. e., the doctrine that Christ is fully human and fully divine) and view Christ as the telos toward which God is drawing the whole of creation, then any view of the sciences that leaves Christ out of the picture must be seen as fundamentally deficient.”

—  William A. Dembski

Source: 1990s, Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology (1999), p. 206

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