Wayne Grudem

from cosmology to biology, it is becoming increasingly clear that science’s failure to explain matters at the most fundamental level is at least in part due to an institutional prohibition on intelligent design as one of the explanatory options. In these pages, “methodological naturalism” is the name by which this prohibition goes, but it could be equally called “methodological atheism.”

it is not surprising that Francis Bacon, with whom the “scientific method” is normally associated, was also instrumental in the production of the King James Version of the Bible.

Francisco Ayala has argued, Darwin accounted for “design without a designer,” since “It was Darwin’s greatest accomplishment to show that the directive organization of living beings can be explained as the result of a natural process, natural selection, without any need to resort to a Creator or other external agent