Comments on: Evolution and Creation VIII – Relationship to God http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog/2009/07/evolution-and-creation-viii-relationship-to-god/ A Catholic blog on the vocation to love and holiness, on the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas, and on diverse theological and philosophical questions. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:29:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: brandonboesch http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog/2009/07/evolution-and-creation-viii-relationship-to-god/#comment-94 brandonboesch Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:37:22 +0000 http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog2/?p=78#comment-94 I have only had the time to briefly read through your series of posts on Evolution. They are very well done. I appreciate your putting together this critique and argument... I will often sit down with someone and show them (from a Biological Perspective) how evolution does not deny the existence of God, nor his creating of us. I think it would have been weird for God to create in the literal fashion described in Genisis. He created these incredible natural laws, written to guide the evolutionary process (with perfection and intent written in the laws) and to simply guide the natural world. Why would He then ignore these laws to create in a way that did not require those laws? brbrI find that evolution brings me closer to God, rather than farther. Maybe it's me as a biologist, but evolution makes me see God's providence in every event, including those events simply moved by the laws of nature (a leaf falling to the ground--caused by gravity, but intended by God through his writing of the law of gravity that governs it.) Anyway, good work. I have only had the time to briefly read through your series of posts on Evolution. They are very well done. I appreciate your putting together this critique and argument… I will often sit down with someone and show them (from a Biological Perspective) how evolution does not deny the existence of God, nor his creating of us.

I think it would have been weird for God to create in the literal fashion described in Genisis. He created these incredible natural laws, written to guide the evolutionary process (with perfection and intent written in the laws) and to simply guide the natural world. Why would He then ignore these laws to create in a way that did not require those laws? brbrI find that evolution brings me closer to God, rather than farther. Maybe it's me as a biologist, but evolution makes me see God's providence in every event, including those events simply moved by the laws of nature (a leaf falling to the ground–caused by gravity, but intended by God through his writing of the law of gravity that governs it.)

Anyway, good work.

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