(October 22, 2018 at 8:17 am)Grandizer Wrote: This is something I've been curious about for a while based on how some theists have described evolution in the past.
From Wikipedia:
Quote:Francis Collins describes theistic evolution as the position that "evolution is real, but that it was set in motion by God", and characterizes it as accepting "that evolution occurred as biologists describe it, but under the direction of God".
Bolded mine. What does that mean exactly? Does natural selection still play a role in theistic evolution? Did God, according to theistic evolution, only cause life to emerge and then let the natural processes of evolution do their thing? Or does he continually do the selecting as opposed to nature?
It means they've found a way to put God in the loop, albeit a totally unprovable and completely unnecessary addition to the theory of evolution.
