The proposition first made by Bernard Ramm in The Christian View of Science and Scripture (1954) that sought to make sense of the geological evidence for evolution and the Christian faith. Ramm suggests that the world we live in is the product of a "progressive creation" in which God intervened to bridge the gaps we find in the geological record, during which he created new "root-species" which then "radiated" (evolved) into the species we know today. Spanning millions of years, God prepared the world for the crowning work of his creation, humans:
The vast forests grew and decayed for his [human] coal, that coal might appear a natural product and not an artificial insertion in Nature. The millions of sea life were born and perished for his oil. The surface of the earth was weathered for his forests and valleys. From time to time the great creative acts, de novo, took place. The complexity of animal forms increased. Finally, when every river had cut its intended course, when every mountain was in its purposed place, when every animal was on the earth according to blueprint, then he whom all creation anticipated is man, MAN, in whom alone is the breathe of God.
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