ABSTRACT
A contemporary writer on science and religion may well begin by emphasizing that the modern understanding of the world has little to do with that advanced in the classical physics of Isaac Newton three centuries ago. Even if the post-Newtonian perspective may not manage of itself to reinstate specific divine action, the insight of chaos theory into the sheer complexity of our existence, and the attempt of the anthropic principle to describe the 'fortunate' nature of our emergence, do change our perspective on the world. Of course the anthropic principle can be challenged. The anthropic principle is essentially a modern version of the argument from design. The transcendental Thomist denies that God inserts the Deity into the causal series by exploiting a gap, as envisaged by those who think of the microworld as somehow containing 'gaps' which God might fill without ousting some finite cause in the process. God is not only involved with the world when performing miracles.
