The Shocking History of Theistic Evolution

Is it enough to reconcile faith and science by simply claiming that "God used evolution"? On this episode of ID the Future, host Andrew McDermott sits down with Father Michal Chaberek and Steve Greene to discuss their new book, Creation or Evolution: A Catholic Dilemma. Together, they dissect how theistic evolution became the quasi-official default position across Catholic academic institutions. Father Michal tracks the historical shift back to the 1920s and the aftermath of Pope Pius XII's 1950 encyclical Humani Generis, revealing how a "Galileo complex" and cultural pressures led theologians to surrender direct creation in favor of a materialistic paradigm. Steve Greene provides clarity by defining the four primary pillars of the origins debate—Materialist Evolution, Theistic Evolution, Progressive Creation, and Young Earth Creationism—and explains why classical Tomistic philosophy and modern scientific evidence ultimately expose the fatal flaws of the Darwinian model.