This article appeared in Sophia, Vol. 56, 2017, 1-10. Shared by permission of journal. Here is a link to a read-only copy of how it appeared in the journal https://rdcu.be/c2sxr. Quotation from the paper. "Ironically, the pronouncements of many contemporary Thomists resemble more the claims of deists than they do those of Thomas, their…
Philosophia Christi, Vol. 24, No. 1, 2022. Shared by permission of the journal. In this paper, I explore scientific, philosophical, and theological difficulties that arise from adopting theistic evolution, understood as claiming that the origin and development of life can be entirely accounted for in terms of the operation of natural causes, without any need to posit direct divine intervention. God…
