When Laozi meets Darwin

Wu-wei is a Taoist term. It literally means “doing nothing.” Yet, there is also Taoist saying: “Doing nothing, but everything is accomplished.”

Some Christians who believe that God created the world are into the “intelligent design” theory. They look at the complexity of living organisms and infer that there must be an intelligent being behind all these phenomena. I am a Taoist, not a Christian. Eastern philosophy has no…