Re: What prevents evolution?
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I cant see your analogy with angles on pins. This goes to the heart of your whole argument about god as I understand it.
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What I mean is I don't believe He does give up any of His sovereignty so the question is moot - pointless, like the question about angels. It's also unanswerable and moot for that reason as well. It's a hypothetical question to which we can't know the answer so it makes little difference what we say about it.
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This seems to be wrong because an omnipotent god can allow many things to happen by chance. In particular god could allow evolution by chance knowing full well that evolution (a process designed by an omnipotent being) plus the occasional intervention would eventually result in creatures capable of recognising his existence
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I've already said there's a sense in which I don't disagree with this. But the chance element in evolution, if it did exist, would ultimately be under the control of God and would therefore affect only non-essential things (and God would define what is and isn't essential). So He might allow chance to decide whether a particular species survives if it doesn't matter to His overall plan, but if that species is integral to His plan He would guarantee its survival. No different than the coin flip example I gave. The bottom line is God is in control and nothing happens outside His will.
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