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Thomas Aquinas on theistic evolution
I came across an essay by a theistic evolutionist on the history of the understanding of nature. Dealing with Thomas Aquinas he said: Moreover, nature’s autonomy allows for the accidental and random. “It would be contrary to the nature of providence and to the perfection of the world if nothing happened by chance,” he wrote (cited in Haught 41). Randomness, then, is an essential feature of God’s creation. The use of citation rather than primary source is a bad sign. The autonomy mentioned referred to what we now call natural laws, God-given, rather than “freedom”, so that’s clear enough. But the bit on “chance” reminded me of all the articles … Continue reading
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