OK, here’s the little challenge to show how hard it can be to apply a conceptual box used for analytical purposes (such as a market model in economic theory) to the actual historical situation. I won’t identify the author of the quotes below, though it might be easy to identify the author by searching. Nor will I identify the historical period, though it’s obviously after 1859. To play the game, just go with what you read below, without additional information or context. From these quotations alone, is or was the author a TE, OEC, or ID?
(1) “The record in the Bible is therefore profoundly philosophical [i.e., scientific] in the scheme of creation it presents. It’s both true and divine,” so “there can be no real conflict between the two Books of the GREAT AUTHOR. Both are revelations made by Him to Man.”
(2) "With every step there was an unfolding of a plan, and not merely an adaptation to external conditions. There was a working forward according to preestablished methods and lines up to the final species, Man, and according to an order so perfect and harmonious in its parts, that the progress is rightly pronounced a development or evolution.”
(3) “Creation by a divine method, that is, by the creative acts of a Being of infinite wisdom, whether through one fiat or many, could be no other than perfect in system, and exact in its relations to all external conditions,–no other, indeed, than the very system of evolution that geological history makes known.”
(4) “Thus, by an abrupt transition, [humanity] stands apart from the ape and all brute races.”
Maybe in a few days, if people are good and play by the rules, I’ll come back and identify the author with some commentary. 