Lesson Thirty-Seven of Aquinas 101, with Fr Dominic Legge, OP, JD, STL, STD, Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology and Director of the Thomistic Institute.
How do divine providence, random events, and free choices relate to each other, especially in regards to scientific theories like the big bang, evolution, and quantum mechanics? Is there a conflict between indeterminacy and the divine causality described by St. Thomas Aquinas? Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P., a Dominican friar from the Province of St. Joseph, breaks down why there is no conflict between God’s providence and scientific theories about the big bang, quantum mechanics, and evolution. God through his divine providence guides the unfolding of everything that is, even through the secondary causality of indeterminate or so-called random events, because he is the primary cause and ultimate end of all of all things.
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