ABSTRACT
Many who have lived within a religious milieu have found that the emergence of evolutionary science has shaken to the roots their presuppositions about life and universe. Charles Darwin theorized that the entirety of terrestrial life flows from a common ancestor and that the wide diversity of living species on the planet can be accounted for by "natural selection". Darwinism takes for granted the existence of at least three generic cosmological features that make the evolution of life possible, but which themselves call for a deeper kind of exposition than either Darwinism or the body of other sciences can give by itself. In first place, biological evolution requires a universe that is open to accidental, undirected or “contingent” events. Second, nature must possess a set of invariant and inviolable physical constraints, namely, laws of physics and chemistry. Third, Darwinian process requires a vast amount of time to lock into replicative consistency the new possibilities that emerge contingently in the life-story.
