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Cambridge University Press
Language
English
Pages
322

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Christianity, Creation, Creationism, Evolution (Biology), Religious aspects, Religious aspects of Evolution (Biology), Teleology, Evolution

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Does life on earth have a purpose?
A quest for meaning
Planned approach
Creationism, intelligent design, and Augustine's idea of time
Creation and creationism
Life based on an intelligent design
A bridge between science and faith
Creation stories and their practical intent
Augustine : time is a creature of God
Darwin, neo-darwinism, and the naturalistic continuity claim
Darwin's theory of evolution : the CVST algorithm
Evolution theory and evolutionism
The ambiguity of naturalism
Continuity and reducibility
Miller's pre-biotic broth and the premises of evolutionism
Origin of life : a category mistake
Survival of the fittest : a tautology
Evolution of science : a performative contradiction
Cold shudder along Darwin's back
The durability of biological species
Gradualism and punctuated equilibria
The ancient lithographic bird
God, time, and taxonomy
The emergence theory of Morgan and Alexander
Emergence according to Morgan and Alexander
The intentionality of human consciousness
Metaphysics and the standpoint of experience
Luctor et Emergo : what is emergent evolution?
Mozart and 'Twinkle, twinkle little star'
Organizational levels in nature
Entities and modalities
Supervenience, correlation, and idionomy
Chimpanzees and the HIV virus
Michael Behe and his mousetrap
Toward a general theory of emergent evolution
John Searle and the mystery of consciousness
Peter Checkland and the structures of society
Ontological stratification
Hominization and the philosophy of mind
Emergent evolution as a conceptual scheme
The human person and the mask
The anthropic principle
Biological constants / Conway Morris
Methodological naturalism
The problem of David Chalmers
Augustinian faith and evolutionary science
The creation account and the story of becoming
Fides quaerit intellectum : a hermeneutic horizon
Pakicetus, the swimming ungulate
Personal experiences
The organism is a whole, the world is a habitat
J.C. Smuts, holism. and evolution
Eenzymes, neurons, and emotions
The life-world
From biosphere to noosphere
New age and Brahman
The slumbering temptation of essentialism
Is there a creation order? / Herman Dooyeweerd
The standpoint of experience and metaphysics
The reflective-empirical method
The reflective-empirical method and living nature
Type laws : an essentialist error
Escaping essentialism
Questions surrounding the emergence process
Hidden configurations in nature : prions
John Paul II on the evolution problem
Ontological profile and evolutionary process : Neanderthals
The last great narrative
Enkapsis in nature : is there an Omega point?
Self-subordination in Baja California
"Desert storm" and other miracles
The kingdom of God as final stage : Teilhard and Laszlo
Human experiences are ambiguous.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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231.7/652
Library of Congress
BL263 .K53 2008, BL263.K53 2008, BL263 .K5313 2008

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p. cm.
Number of pages
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2008028871
OCLC/WorldCat
233697368
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