I've noted previously that PC is observationally indistinguishable from TE if
one makes the creative interventions small enough. In fact, one can construct a model
of PC in which God does everything directly but acts in a continuous fashion so that
it _looks_ as if natural processes are doing everything. I.e., it really comes down to
a distinction between Barbour's "monarchical" theology of divine action & his
"Neo-Thomist" plus "kenotic" ones. I.e., it is a theological distinction. But that
doesn't mean that making the distinction is a waste of time & self-defeating, for one
approach seems to me much more coherent with God's character as revealed in Christ than
the other.
I'm speaking here of relatively sophisticated versions of PC, not naive ones
which insist that God had to "leave his fingerprints all over the evidence" &c.
George L. Murphy
gmurphy@raex.com
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/