Thanks to Tom Harmon for sending along a link to this paper, touching on many of the themes we deal with in our Creation/Evolution/ID discussions

He remarks:

Everyone seems to accept the framing of the debate by, on the one hand, the materialist proponents of a reductionist account of evolution, and on the other hand, by (mostly Protestant) Intelligent Design Theorists who, for the most part, reject metaphysics and share most of the materialists’ assumptions about what science is and the relationship between chance and design. I include an article by an old prof of mine at Gonzaga that clarifies what would likely be St. Thomas’ position in the debate. It turns out that, in good philosophy of science, chance is not opposed to intelligent design. (Nor, by the way, is chance outside of God’s Providence in good, orthodox theology of grace!)