BH> Actually, I'm a little uncomfortable with the "barely within bounds"
> part. I should have mentioned this previously, but didn't want to
> get too outrageous ;-).
Sorry about that, Brian. :-) Normally, I try to be inclusive about
different versions of TE. In this case, I was working so
hard to explain how some versions of TE include subtle guidance of natural
processes, that I sort of pushed other versions towards "deism."
I agree with you that the main point, from a theological perspective, is
God's _mindful_intention,_ not the mechanisms of how he achieved it.
Loren Haarsma