The Text G. Other Mechanisms of Evolution Essays 1. The prevailing scientific worldview is shown to be inadequate with respect to an account of these realities. Now we will turn our attention to a consideration of the end of the universe, the fate of humanity, and the fate of individuals. Christianity is the religion of eternal or everlasting life. The ideas of Frank Tipler will be discussed and contrasted with orthodox Christian understanding of God and immortality.
Science appears to be offering humanity a naturalistic alternative to spiritual salvation.
The observations of the philosopher Mary Midgley will be discussed with special attention being paid to her criticism of the speculations of physicists such as J. B. S. Haldane, John Desmond Bernal, Freeman Dyson, and Frank Tipler. This view is discussed in the context of Charles S. Peirce's shift of the primacy of being from material to relation, or alternately, from secondness to thirdness. This session will serve not only summarize the main points of this series, but to put forward a novel set of ideas which might prove important to the progress of natural theology.