William E. Carroll's Available Article

Creation, Evolution, and the Catholic Tradition

Published in: Evolution and Intelligent Design - January 2008

In debates about evolution both sides often assume that if the
evolutionary account of natural processes is true then beliefs about God as creator must be false. The Catholic tradition as represented by Thomas Aquinas, however, makes careful distinctions between biological arguments on the one hand, and philosophical and theological claims, on the other hand, and these distinctions make it possible to understand how both evolutionary theory and theology contribute in complementary ways to our knowledge of the world. From this point of view the intelligent design model is not only scientifically suspect but also theologically suspect. > More