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- Title
Omnipotence and spatiotemporally restricted entities.
- Authors
Vandergriff, Kevin
- Abstract
Many people who claim that evolution and theism are in tension assume that God, being omnipotent, could create life in different ways. For instance, Paul Draper has argued that the fact that life evolved on earth supports naturalism over theism. However, for there to be a probabilistic tension between naturalism and theism, because of the fact of evolution, a certain background assumption must be true, namely, that God could have made biological organisms and species through an act of Genesis-style special creation, or some combination of evolution and special creation. But that background assumption is potentially faulty. Why? Because special creation presupposes that biological organisms and species are spatiotemporally unrestricted entities, and if the dominant paradigm in biology, and philosophy of biology, on the ontological status of organisms and species is correct, then they are spatiotemporally restricted entities.
- Subjects
THEISM; OMNIPOTENCE of God; ATTRIBUTES of God; NATURALISM; ORGANISMS
- Publication
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2018, Vol 84, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
0020-7047
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11153-017-9633-2