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[The premoderns – including the Scholastics  viewed the world as static, that is, designed.  Before the point where de Chardin was discussed, Man and Sin follows that perspective.

Schoonenberg did not realize that humans evolved to see design.  The reason why we evolved this trait is plain.  By seeing design, we recognized patterns and produced artifacts that increased reproductive success under our ecological, environmental and definitional conditions.  “Seeing design” was adaptive.]