Donald MacCrimmon MacKay (9 August 1922 – 6 February 1987) was a British physicist, and professor at the Department of Communication and Neuroscience at Keele University in Staffordshire, England, known for his contributions to information theory and the theory of brain organisation.
[1] MacKay was educated at Wick High School and St Andrews University, and gained a PhD at King's College London.
In our age, when people look for explanations, the tendency more and more is to conceive of any and every situation that we are trying to understand by analogy with a machine.
[3]God's way of working has been slow and gradual (the bodies of higher animals coming into being through descent with modification from earlier species), is all that is meant by the term 'evolution' as used in science.
In this technical, scientific sense the idea is theologically neutral, and is widely accepted by biologists who are also biblical Christians.