Are Laws Creative? Like other theistic evolutionists, Lamoureux sometimes speaks as though he thinks the physical laws of nature might be generating the information necessary to produce new forms of life. He refers to evolution as “a planned and purpose-driven natural process” and affirms “that humans evolved from pre-human ancestors, and over a period of time the Image of God and human sin were gradually and mysteriously manifested.”11 Since Lamoureux disavows specific acts of divine creation as illicit appeals to a “God of the gaps,” and since he affirms that humans, at least, acquire new
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