More Thorough Answer to Rev. Nicanor Austriaco? OP

The Fittingness of Evolutionary Creation
Rev. Nicanor Austriaco, OP
https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.providence.edu/dist/4/182/files/2020/05/Thomistic-Evolution-22.pdf

Now, it is a greater perfection for a thing to be good in itself and also the cause of goodness in others, than only to be good in itself. Therefore God so governs things, that He makes some of them to be causes of others in government, like a master, who not only imparts knowledge to his pupils, but gives also the faculty of teaching others

(Summa theologiæ, I.103.6).

Yes, let's take the example of Apostles. God as Man chose them. He also chose to instruct for instance Sts. Barnabas or Mark through them. And this in turn means, there is a hierarchy.

God did not chose St. Mark to instruct St. Peter, though. There is a hierarchy in the not just being faithful, but also producing faith, and that hierarchy is not reversed.

However, the problem with Evolution is, it involves a reversal of what is the hierarchy of creation. God chose man to convey life or death to earthly creation below man. According to Evolution, God instead chose subhuman creation, as well as death (that's what "natural selection" means!) to produce man.

In the hierarchy as seen by a Creationist, man's sin produces mutations that lead Yersinia pestis to become mortal. In the hierarchy as seen by Evolutionists, mutations in bacteria lead up to Eucaryotes and from one-celled Eucaryotes to man. I think I have made my case and refuted the main point of Rev. Nicanor./HGL