I disagree with those who argue that evolutionary biology and the existence of God are incompatible.

The racial categories that are used in a given society (for example, in contemporary America) are biologically meaningless, but sometimes it turns out that a vernacular racial category has biological reality.

Our own species evolved under the influence of group selection, as Darwin emphasized when he discussed the evolution of altruism.

Scientists often seek predictively accurate models, rather than models that are true.

In many contexts, simplicity is not an aesthetic frill.

Unfortunately, philosophers of science usually regard scientific realism and scientific anti-realism as monistic doctrines. The assumption is that there is one goal of all scientific inference - finding propositions that are true, or finding propositions that are predictively accurate. In fact, there are multiple goals. Sometimes realism is the right interpretation of a scientific problem, while at other times instrumentalism is.

Deism claims that God creates the universe and the laws of nature and then is hands-off, with everything that subsequently happens in nature being due to natural processes.