In Night of the Confessor, Tomas Halik … claims that as modern science began to explain the world around us Christians made the mistake of viewing God as the mechanism by which these things came to be. They failed to differentiate – as Thomas Aquinas did – between levels of causality and placed God in the ‘supernatural’ category, which was used to explain ‘natural’ processes. The problem is that science learned that they didn’t need a supernatural explanation and called into question the whole category of supernatural things. God, then, became a casualty in an unnecessary war.
