The creation of the Darwinian theory of biological evolution was accompanied by significant theological discussions that were directly related to the question of the relationship between science and theology. Charles Darwin himself was far from an atheistic view of the world, although at the end of his life he did not recognize himself as a believing Christian. One of his colleagues - and the main proponent of the theory of evolution on the American continent - was Harvard botanist Asa Gray. Being a Calvinist and accepting the Nicene Creed, Gray was simultaneously a supporter of the theory of biological evolution, and did not see any contradictions between it and Christian theology, insisting on the compatibility of this theory with both atheistic and theistic doctrine. According to Gray, the scientific method is limited to the study of the mechanisms of development of the Universe (and, in particular, the organic world), but does not say anything about the sources of the laws underlying this development. The