Join us April 17-19 for the BioLogos national conference, Faith & Science 2024, as we explore God’s Word and God’s World together!

Forums
By 
Josh Reeves
 on July 16, 2015

Reconciling Chance and Divine Providence: Three Theological Options

For many Christians, the most-troubling aspect of evolution is not the idea of common descent or its conflict with a literal reading of Genesis, but because the mechanism of natural selection implies that creation is governed by chance.

Share  
Twitter
Facebook
LinkedIn
Print

For many Christians, the most-troubling aspect of evolution is not the idea of common descent or its conflict with a literal reading of Genesis, but because the mechanism of natural selection implies that creation is governed by chance. Assuming that chance is a real feature of the world, my paper will evaluate three different models for reconciling chance and divine providence.