Physiologist Gary Merrill, a Mormon who teaches at Rutgers University, finds an even more direct connection. If I'm studying a problem in my lab and can't seem to come up with the answer, I believe there is room for faith and prayer in solving that problem. Brother Geiger, for example, explains that when he teaches biology, evolution is one of the major themes running through the course, helping make sense of a number of diverse topics, such as fossils and adaptation. In interview after interview, however, the shibboleth of religious scientists is the notion of purpose in human evolution. No matter how orthodox they might be in most of their scientific views, many of them cannot abide the notion that chance and randomness may play a significant role in the rise of humans.
Evolutionists say man evolved by chance, without purpose.
I definitely believe the word of God. In any case, Tendler feels the process of evolution has no religious significance. I'm perfectly happy to accept slow, Darwinian evolution as long as you don't leave God out of the picture. We believe there was a guiding hand. However, contemporary theological thought, to say nothing of modern biology, is critical of the notion of purpose in the evolutionary process.