The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are the one and invisible principle of creation even though the work of creating the world is particularly attributed to God the Father. The world was created for the glory of God who wished to show forth and communicate his goodness, truth and beauty.
God alone, who is beyond time and space created the world out of nothing and called all things into being. Everything that exists depends on God and continues in being only because God wills it.
Catholic faith is open to findings and hypotheses of sciences. That is why a Christian can accept the theory of evolution as a helpful explanatory model, provided that one does not fall into the heresy of evolutionism, which views man as the random product of biological processes. The world is not product of chance. For us, God is the primary cause of the world.
Therefore, God created the world freely with wisdom and love. The world is not the result of any necessity, or of blind fate, or of chance. God created a world which is ordered and good... and he preserves his creation and sustains it.
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