John Haught

Theologian John F Haught considers Darwinism to be a “reasonably close, though incomplete and abstract, approximation of the way life has developed on Earth.” Unlike Rolston, he believes that the ‘self-limiting scope’ of the sciences will not be able to detect divine action in biological history, but that it exists nevertheless. As such, his view is explicitly a ‘theology of nature.’ He is sharply critical of the argument from design, and the ‘Intelligent Design’ movement in particular, arguing that “the metaphysics of divine humility ... explains the actual features of evolution much more intelligibly.”

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