Meyer Responds to the Charge that ID Was Created to Get Around Court Decisions

[Chris_Falter]

Eddie vs. Eddie

@Eddie

Tkacz’s views (along with those of Feser and Beckwith) were taken down very ably by Vincent Torley on Uncommon Descent, and part of the argument rested on actual passages of Aquinas, which, as Torley showed, did not sustain Tkacz’s reading of Aquinas. Similar arguments have been made by Michael Chaberek, O.P., based on a close reading of Aquinas’s text. See the second edition of his Aquinas and Evolution . Chaberek’s historical study, Catholicism and Evolution , is also very helpful.

“Torley and Chaberek are reading Aquinas truly. Those who are trying to reconcile Aquinas with evolution are plainly wrong.”

@Eddie

The debate among Thomists rages on. I’m not asking anyone to endorse Chaberek’s side, but for those whose ideas on Thomas and evolution are shaped by philosophers like Edward Feser and theologians like NIcanor Austriaco, and think that such writers have settled the question, it is good to have an alternative interpretation of Aquinas available, for comparison and contrast.

“Well, maybe not.”