# New Book on Aquinas and Evolution

**URL:** <https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/new-book-on-aquinas-and-evolution/8695>\
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**Created:** [December 11, 2019, 11:27am UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/new-book-on-aquinas-and-evolution/8695 "2019-12-11T11:27:48Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 11, 2019, 4:34pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/new-book-on-aquinas-and-evolution/8695/6 "2019-12-11T16:34:49Z")

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> [@Eddie](#):
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> Chaberek, unlike Feser and some other Thomists, thinks that Thomistic thought precludes macroevolutionary change – unless that change is perceived as being aided by divine interventions, which for Chaberek means that God is not merely letting living things evolve naturally, but is directly creating radically new entities (even if making use of earlier genetic and somatic material).

So much the worse for Thomistic thought, then. What does “directly creating”, etc. actually mean? What does “making use of earlier genetic and somatic material” actually mean?

Most importantly, why should we care what Thomas Aquinas thought about evolution? Should it have any influence on our understanding of evolution? Thomism seems like a personality cult.

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