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. Assuming that chance is a real feature of the world, my paper will evaluate three different models for reconciling chance and divine providence.
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