TY - JOUR AU - Kemp, Kenneth W. PY - 2020/10/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - God, Evolution, and the Body of Adam JF - Scientia et Fides JA - SetF VL - 8 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.12775/SetF.2020.017 UR - https://apcz.umk.pl/SetF/article/view/SetF.2020.017 SP - 139-172 AB - <p class="P"><span>Catholic evolutionists have proposed to reconcile evolutionary anthropogenesis with Catholic doctrine by suggesting that a created soul could be infused into a body produced (in part, if not wholly) by evolution from an animal body. Could such an infusion yield not just a Platonic composite but a being with the unity of substance required by a Thomistic philosophy of nature? How could such a soul be the <em>form</em> of the body into which it was infused?</span></p><p class="P"><span>This paper suggests that animals seem to have sense-powers with a level of complexity, if not sufficient to underlie the abstraction of concepts in a being that also has a rational soul, then at least nearly so. The burden of proof lies rather on those who think that evolutionary development of such powers is not possible.</span></p><p class="P"><span>In its final section, the paper argues that the existence of Eve as a second, and the only additional, initial rational being does not create special problems for the view here articulated.</span></p> ER -