ogical position which equates potentiality with actuality (Harrison, 1983, p. 201). In contrast, there is the "process perspective" toward human life developed by the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, which holds that potentiality can be affected by such factors as "selection, spontaneity, novelty, and at the human level of natural existence, rational freedom as constitutive of reality" (Harrison, 1983, p. 204). The first viewpoint is based on faith in the natural order as imposed by God, whereas the second viewpoint is based on the recognition that "human interactions intrinsically shape the natural life process and that actualization of potential in nature is always, to some degree, the result of valuation and choice" (Harrison, 1983, p. 204).
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