The moderate Democratic blogger in Kentucky opines: "Evolution is simply change over time. But naturalistic evolutionists who do believe in progress have to
go through some elaborate twists to explain both why our evolutionary
practice seems to show a positive design without a designer, and how we
keep progressing even though our evolved psychology is pessimistic."
He continues his commentary about how we got here: "It seems to me that theistic evolution is a simpler account of
how a species designed for both hope and fear, designed for pessimistic
assumptions but optimistic actions, can in fact achieve such progress. I don't have an elaborate philosophical argument here. I just think
that people who see that the world is improving through the amazing
collective action of creative humans are halfway to seeing that we are
meant for this by a Creator."
William Weston Op-Ed: Theistic Evolution
