Howard J. Van Till (in \u201cThe Creation: Intelligently Designed or Optimally Equipped?\u201d reprinted in the same volume) writes: \u201cThe kind of divine action we pray for is discernable only by those who have eyes (of faith) to see it. The natural sciences have no instruments with which to measure the level of effectiveness of God\u2019s blessings\u201d (p.247). Throughout this helpful study he notes the irony of Christians presuming that the inability of that which has been created to organize itself in remarkable ways into material, living and ultimately intelligent things, is assumes to point to a creator more than evidence that matter has<\/i> such a potential in itself. He asks \u201cHas our concept of divine creative action been unduly affected by the \u201cspecial effects\u201d industry? Perhaps so\u201d (p.248).<\/p>\n \u201cThe processes revealed by the sciences, especially evolutionary biology, are in themselves God-acting-as-creator. There is no need to look for God as some kind of additional factor supplementing the processes of the world. God, to use language usually applied in sacramental theology, is \u201cin, with, and under\u201d all-that-is and all-that-goes-on\u201d (Arthur Peacocke, \u201cBiological Evolution \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-6631643549589827148?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\")