Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 1.6AB2

[We do not see evil when we intervene in a natural system in order to save something.  This completely amazes me because interventions intended to “preserve a particular feature of a spontaneous order” only causes the spontaneous order to adapt as if it had less energy going through the system. Or, the system faces greater entropy.

Here, the ongoing rejection of the concept of “design” by secular fundamentalists (who ridicule William Paley and the proponents of Intelligent Design equally) produces an ironic situation.  The unconscious denial that “the environmentalist projects design into nature’s spontaneous order” blinds the environmental engineer to the potential of negative dynamic adaptive response to ‘his’ intervention by the spontaneous order.

In sum, the environmentalist sees design in nature, refuses to admit that ‘he’ sees designs, constructs an intervention, then is surprised at the unintended consequences, but accounts ‘himself’ blameless.]