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St. Augustine of Hippo Anticipates Evolution

Being buried in Westminster Abbey doesn’t confer sainthood. But maybe Charles Darwin should be thought of as one of the saints along with St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430) who, many centuries earlier, seemed to have anticipated the notion of evolution:

Scripture has stated that the earth brought forth the crops and the trees causally, in the sense that it received the power of bringing them forth. God created what was to be in times to come in the earth from the beginning, in what I might call the "roots of time."

In the seed then, there was present invisibly everything that would develop in time into a tree. And we must visualize the world in the same way, when God made all things together, as having all things that were made in it and with it. . . . [This] includes also the beings which earth produced potentially before they emerged in the course of time. (Emphasis mine)