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Theistic Evolution is one of three major origin-of-life views, the other two being Atheistic Evolution, commonly known as Darwinian Evolution, and Special Creation. Atheistic Evolution says that there is no God and that life can and did emerge naturally from preexisting non-living building blocks under the influence of natural laws. Special Creation says that God created life, either from scratch or from preexisting materials. Theistic Evolution says one of two things:
That, while there is a God, he wasn't directly involved in the origin of life. He may have created the building blocks, He may have created the natural laws, He may even have created these things with the idea of life in mind, but at some point early on he stopped and let his creation take over. He let it do what it does, whatever that is, and life eventually emerged from non-living material. This view is similar to Atheistic Evolution in that it presumes a naturalistic origin of life.
Where life was not able to......

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