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You’ll need to clarify what you mean by “supernatural act.” Are you referring to discrete miracle-events that override or suspend normal biological processes at each birth, or to God’s ongoing providential action through natural processes?
Under that definition, theistic evolution has no difficulty affirming a supernatural act in the broad sense, namely, God as the ultimate source and sustainer of life, acting beyond nature, and also through nature and natural mechanisms, as its ground.
I can't speak for everyone, and each person here is different in how we read Genesis. But generally speaking, most people here do not view Genesis 1 as being a scientifically concordant grammatical historical account.
Neither is theistic physics. Can you see why?
Technically, like YE creationism and ID, it's a religious belief. It's not a science at all. It's merely a religious belief that accepts the way God created new species.
St. Augustine once noted that a Christian should be willing to change his interpretation of scripture if new evidence so indicated. That's pretty much what most Christians think. Of course there are other religions that accept the fact of evolution; I can't speak for them.
Darwin's great discovery was that it isn't undirected. Natural selection tends to direct changes in populations that make them more fit.
You merely inserted your beliefs into scripture.
You'll accept that He did it, but you aren't willing to accept how He did it. The verse doesn't say how those kinds were produced. Am I to believe you think evolution within a "kind" is acceptable, but not new "kinds?"
Our bodies are produced naturally. But our souls are given immediately by God. That's Christian doctrine. At least every Christian I've asked about it.
But that was not the question proposed -- Is God as the ultimate source and sustainer of life. The question asked was not broad but specific: Do theistic evolutionists hold that every human being -- from Adam to the present -- required a supernatural act to come into existence?
? No violations of natural laws are required, constant or otherwise, to answer the question.
Only to people who ignorantly think evolution is something like "a dog giving birth to a cat". To those who understand how evolution actually works however those verses pose no problem at all.
If by “supernatural act” you mean God’s continual creative and sustaining causation, then yes, every human existence depends on God in that sense, and this is affirmed by all Christian frameworks, not uniquely by theistic evolution.
Science is only about the natural universe. If faith won't do it for you, science can't help. Fortunately, science is not the only way of knowing.
And faith can answer that for you. Why would you want to bring science into it?
Progress, at last. Glad I was a able to help. We'll let the YE creationists and ID people make their own cases.
Did He reveal to us how He did it? If you think so then show us your source. Otherwise, the claim is merely the provisional claim of fallible human intellect. And one in which other human intellects disagree.
Are you interpreting my words here as supporting evolution? I never mentioned evolution where you quoted me. Or were you planning to say something more?
Please read the question more carefully. The event is not an intervention, as if to frustrate a natural event, but a positive supernatural act unexplainable by science.
? @The Barbarian disagrees.
Under your definition of a “positive supernatural act unexplainable by science,” theistic evolution can affirm such acts in the sense that God is the ultimate cause of every human life, acting in ways that are beyond scientific explanation, even while working through natural processes.
