I am sorry that I misinterpreted Joe’s position, and am happy to see that it is not the brand of theistic evolutionism represented by Francis S. Collins (and myself) that he really was criticizing. As I noted in my previous post, it is the insights of St. Augustine that are most needed here, and therefore I think there is sufficient common ground between Catholics like me and Calvinists like Joe.
Friday, June 12, 2009, 3:19 PM
June 12th, 2009 | 5:13 pm
So this means that Natural Selection is out then, and Super-natural Selection is in, eh?
June 12th, 2009 | 6:20 pm
Well technically everything that happens in this world, including miracles is natural….at least according to pre-enlightenment thinking, since everything outside of God is a creation and is sustained by God and is thus natural. This includes people, natural forces such as gravity, preternatural beings such as angels, and “natural selection”. God made them, and he can change them at will, though He rarely does it chaotically since He’s a God of order.
June 13th, 2009 | 1:27 am
The action may be natural… but the impetus, the will behind the action of the evolutionary Selection is wholly of God, so therefore it is Super-natural Selection.
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