Theistic evolution is a view that God acts and creates through laws of nature. Here, God is taken as the primary cause while natural causes are secondary, positing that the concept of God and religiou
In the 19th century, geology and paleontology were still connected to Old Earth creationism. The above depicts a brutal world of deep time, existing before Adam and Eve, from Thomas Hawkins' book on plesiosaurs. Artist: John Martin, 1840
Diagram of Adamic exceptionalism
Darwin's finches by Gould
The relationship between science and religion involves discussions that interconnect the study of the natural world, history, philosophy, and theology. Even though the ancient and medieval worlds did
God the Geometer — Gothic frontispiece of the Bible moralisée, representing Christ the God's act of Creation. France, mid-13th century
Clerks studying astronomy and geometry (France, early 15th century)
Science and religion are portrayed to be in harmony in the Tiffany window Education (1890).
Medieval artistic illustration of the spherical Earth in a 13th-century copy of L'Image du monde (c. 1246)