Lay Catholics questioning Darwinism?

For some years, it has not been the practice of many Catholics to question Darwinism. Most got sucked years ago into some muddle according to which the great theologian Thomas Aquinas didn’t supposedly think there could be such a thing as observable design in nature because that would make God a “tinkerer.” Some tinker.

Anyway, it was interesting to see that, just recently, a California Catholic paper has started to smell the coffee at last and picked up on George Weigel’s article from First Things:

The empirical evidence suggests that the notions of a purposeful Creator and a purposeful creation cannot be dismissed as mere pre-modern mythology. That may help a few Nones out of the materialist bogs in which they’re stuck.

“Memo to Nones: Darwin can’t explain Cambrian explosion” at California Catholic Daily

The comments reveal a variety of approaches, including one commenter who wants to just blame the Cambrian explosion on Snowball Earth. Right. That’ll solve everything.

Of course, the disgruntled can always blame it all on that Yale prof David Gelernter.

But lay Catholics actually waking up… wow.

See also: At First Things, they are also getting over Darwinism

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