“God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth after his kind.” In theological language, these were acts of “mediate” creation: God did not design or create these plants and animals directly. As an authoritative Roman Catholic Biblical Commentary expressed it, God created them indirectly “through the agency of the mother earth.”
Mind blown. It is right in front of our eyes, and we somehow channeled the mindset of intelligent design and mechanism. Latent right there is causative evolution.
