This interaction between the design argument and the interventionist conception of free will has an interesting moral aspect. Arguably, the two images of God as supernatural, and of our ‘selves’ as equally outside nature, feed off each other. And each leads people to deny the sovereignty of nature. It leads people to see the world as something that ‘we’ have dominion over, just as God does. Whereas the truth is that the world is something of which we are a very, very small part.
