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So the title of this talk is Creation versus Creationism, Aquinas on Evolution.

And I think this is a great topic for the Thomistic Institute, and it's part of why the

Timistic Institute exists to grapple with questions like this about the intelligibility of faith

in light of contemporary science and vice versa. I'd like to start with some clarifying remarks, kind of some introductory remarks,

although we could talk about them for a long time, really, about the apparent conflict or the

illusion of conflict between science and faith. And there's lots of arguments here, but I think by beginning with a few general observations,

and maybe I should be using this if I can try.

Is that better?

I think they can, we won't have time to get into all of these arguments.

We can helpfully group some of them together and just analyze them in summary fashion.

The first, I mean, I think there's kind of four general headings here.

So if I could give you, these are like four objections that then we will, I hope, resolve either immediately or as the talk goes on. The first is probably the

easiest to deal with. It holds that science has disproved the Bible because there are

passages, now this is the objection, right? There are passages in the Bible, according to this view,

like the creation account found in Genesis, that are

inimical to what contemporary science tells us, and there we might think of evolution in

the theory, in biology, or for that matter, Big Bang cosmology, although, you know, that may look a little more friendly to what the faith holds.

So that's the first category of objections.

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