Does God Create Through Evolution? A Thomistic Perspective

Many advocates of theistic evolutionism develop an image of God creating within and through evolutionary processes. Defining their position as "evolutionist creationism," they conceive God as sharing his divine power to create with his creatures. I claim that evolutionary transformations can certainly be thought as particular exemplifications of the concurrence of divine and natural causes. However, because they occur within already existing matter, they should not be conceived as an aspect of divine creation but rather as an important part of divine providential governance and guidance of the created universe toward its end.