Introduction:

‘Theistic evolution’… for many the title may seem an oxymoron in linking theism with evolution. Indeed, since its emergence in the 19th century, the theory of evolution has often been presented as being in conflict with belief in God, and this idea still seems to be alive and well. Mariusz Tabaczek, however, shows in this book how they can be perfectly compatible, and therefore prudently points out in the general conclusion that ‘if true, evolution does not oppose or contradict the classical philosophical and theological view of reality proper to Aristotelian-Thomistic thought’.