Divine action and natural selection : science, faith, and evolution / editors, Joseph Seckbach, Richard Gordon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gordon, Richard, 1943-

Seckbach, J. (Joseph)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evolution (Biology).

Natural selection.

Religion and science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1122 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The debate between divine action, or faith, and natural selection, or science, is garnering tremendous interest. This book ventures well beyond the usual, contrasting American Protestant and atheistic points of view, and also includes the perspectives of Jews, Muslims, and Roman Catholics. It contains arguments from the various proponents of intelligent design, creationism, and Darwinism, and also covers the sensitive issue of how to incorporate evolution into the secondary school biology curriculum. Comprising contributions from prominent, award-winning authors, the book also contains dialogs

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements Joseph Seckbach; Further Acknowledgments Richard Gordon; List of Authors and Dialoguers and Their Addresses and E-mail Addresses; Foreword Hillel (Harry) Furstenberg; Biography; Foreword; 1. Darwinism - A Two-pronged Challenge to Religion; 2. Blind Chance and Random Process; 3. Design as Paradigm; Biographies; Preface 1. Where Did We Come From? Joseph Seckbach and Julian Chela-Flores; Biographies; Preface 1; Preface 2. To the Scientist Who Feels Above the Creationist Debate Richard Gordon; Biography; Preface 2; Dialogue: Juan G. Roederer

Preface 3. Monotheism: The Basis for Unifying Abrahamic Religion and Science? Richard GordonPreface 3; Dialogue: Jack A. Tuszynski; Part 1. Background in Theology, Philosophy and Science; 01. Scientists and Beliefs Christian de Duve; Biography; Chapter; Dialogue: Charles H. Lineweaver; 02. Evolution and Intelligent Design. Who Needs God? George V. Coyne; Biography; Chapter; 1. Introduction; 2. Origins and Creation; 3. A Brief History of Scientific Methodology; 4. The Life Sciences; 5. The Fallacies of Intelligent Design; 6. Biological Evolution and Religion

7. The God of a Believing ScientistReferences; Dialogue: Victor J. Stenger; 03. The Enigma of Final Causality: Biological Causality in Aristotle and Neo-Darwinism Edward Oakes; Biography; Chapter; 1. Introduction; 2. The Enigma in Kant, Hume and Copernicus; 3. Objective, Inexorable Causes vs. the "Accidents" of Biology; 4. Idealism and Final Causality; 5. Aristotle, Our Contemporary; 6. Mental Air; 7. Abstract; References; Dialogue: Lev V. Beloussov; 04. Astrobiological Reflections on Faith and Reason: The Issues of Agnosticism, Relativism and Natural Selection Julian Chela-Flores; Biography

Chapter1. Is There a Crisis in the Dialogue Between Faith and Reason?; 2. Has there been a Second Genesis in the Solar System?; 3. On the Implications of Darwinism; 4. Darwinism, Philosophy and Theology; 5. Discussion; 6. Glossary; References; Dialogue: Tom Barbalet; 5. The God Detector: A Thought Experiment Bruce Damer; Biography; Chapter; 1. The Artificial Life Programmer, the New Alchemist?; 2. Lost in the Noise of the Data Explosion; 3. The God Detector; 4. Finding the God Detector; 5. God and the Copying Rule; 6. Scope and Time Scales of the Copying Rule

7. How God the Intelligent Designer Engages the Copying Rule8. The Monk and the Copying Rule; 9. God the Intelligent Adapter; 10. God, Life, the Universe and Everything; 11. Afterthought Experiment: Building a God Detector; 12. Giving Birth to God; References; Dialogue: Tom Barbalet; References; 06. Welcome to the Simulation Tom Barbalet; Biography; Chapter; 1. Introduction; 2. Field of Reference; 3. Simulation Metaphysics; 4. Alive without Intelligence; 5. Intelligence and the Game Hunter; 6. Computational Power; 7. New Science; 8. Moving the Discussion Forward; References

07. Darwinian Evolution: A Practical Tool in Industry Stephen P. McGrew

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9789812834355

9812834354

OCLC:

877767384