(October 22, 2018 at 8:33 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(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:
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.
Exactly. If a god is required to do the selecting, then the theory of evolution is wrong, full stop. If a god is not required, then inserting a god would be ridiculous. It's not even "god of the gaps", it is "shoehorn god in, despite no gaps".
