Purpose in the living world? : creation and emergent evolution / Jacob Klapwijk ; translated and edited by Harry Cook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klapwijk, Jacob, author.

Contributor:

Cook, Harry, editor, translator.

Standardized Title:

Heeft de evolutie een doel? English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evolution (Biology)--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Evolution (Biology).

Creation.

Teleology.

Creationism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 311 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Are evolution and creation irreconcilably opposed? Is 'intelligent design' theory an unhappy compromise? Is there another way of approaching the present-day divide between religious and so-called secular views of the origins of life? Jacob Klapwijk offers a philosophical analysis of the relation of evolutionary biology to religion, and addresses the question of whether the evolution of life is exclusively a matter of chance or is better understood as including the notion of purpose. Writing from a Christian (Augustinian) point of view, he criticizes creationism and intelligent design theory as well as opposing reductive naturalism. He offers an alternative to both and an attempt to bridge the gap between them, via the idea of 'emergent evolution'. In this theory the process of evolution has an emergent or innovative character resulting in a living world of ingenious, multifaceted complexity.

Contents:

Does life on earth have a purpose?

Creationism, intelligent design, and Augustine's idea of time

Darwin, neo-Darwinism, and the naturalistic continuity claim

Miller's pre-biotic broth and the premises of evolutionism

A cold shudder along Darwin's back

The emergence theory of Morgan and Alexander

Luctor et emergo : what is emergent evolution?

Toward a general theory of emergent evolution

Hominization and the philosophy of mind

Augustinian faith and evolutionary science

The organism is a whole, the world is a habitat

The slumbering temptation of essentialism

Questions surrounding the emergence process

Enkapsis in nature : is there an omega point?

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-303) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-18927-6

1-283-33032-6

9786613330321

1-139-13483-3

0-511-81381-3

1-139-12979-1

1-139-13372-1

0-511-50422-5

0-511-50636-8

OCLC:

476264777