God in Creation: A Consideration of Natural Selection as the Sacrificial Means of a Free Creation

S. Watson

DOI:10.1177/0008429819830356

Corpus ID: 202271434

God in Creation: A Consideration of Natural Selection as the Sacrificial Means of a Free Creation

@article{Watson2019GodIC,
  title={God in Creation: A Consideration of Natural Selection as the Sacrificial Means of a Free Creation},
  author={S. Watson},
  journal={Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses},
  year={2019},
  volume={48},
  pages={216 - 236}
}

S. Watson

Published 2019

Philosophy

Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses

If the Christian God is creator of all things and revealed in Christ to be costly love, then how can divine agency in creation be understood in light of scientific discoveries revealing that biological warfare undergirds Darwinian evolution by natural selection? To explore this challenge, I look to Philip Hefner’s teleonomic axiom as a measure for divine agency in the fulfillment and survival of natural structures and processes. Drawing on this criterion and the feminist writing of Judith… CONTINUE READING

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