a continual act; ‘…the act of creation gathers into one single divine moment the whole of existence, even though…extended in time…’ There is therefore no conflict between evolution and archaeological findings, and the traditional doctrine of creation provided that we think of the two as existing simultaneously in two separate realities. One way to look at it is an analogy, which is sometimes used in order to try and understand God’s omnipresence, a difficult concept to grasp for human beings. Imagine a book that contains the world’s story from beginning to end, with the timescale in that book being that of Earth. God is the reader/writer/editor, and he is external to the book, both in terms of being able to edit it and in terms of time (if He is immutable and infinite so must He be outside the framework of our time). So God can edit the book; he is something external (transcendence) but also involved as a reader, writer or editor (immanence). This present involvement we can see is creatio continua.A story with a beginning and a middle usually has an end; we come now to the eschatological teachings of creation, creatio nova, the future involvement of God. Our destiny as human beings can be seen to be written in the book; the completion and end destination of creation, still to be fulfilled.The three fold view of creation is one adopted by mot scholars; it is a sensible, balanced view of the doctrine as a teaching on more than just one act in time, i.e. creatio originalis....
