Yet another post from DarwinCatholic on what’s wrong with “intelligent design” philosophy.

I’ll just paste the quote.

The understanding of nature which was held by St. Thomas Aquinas, and which allowed the Catholic Church to nurture much of early science, is that God’s will is a rational and ordering principle guiding the universe. It is thus because of God’s ordered nature that object in the universe move in ways that can be calculated and predicted mathematically, and because of God’s will that creatures descend from each other via methods that are explicable to reason. The Christian worldview has traditionally held that the world is explicable to reason because God, the creator of the world, is Himself reasonable.

However, ID proponents seems to have latched onto a far more modern understanding of "nature vs. God" and thus feel that in order to feel confident that God is the creator of the universe, there must be clearly identifiable points at which "natural" laws and processes explicable to reason do not appear to apply.

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