The proceedings of the Plenary Session on scientific insights into the evolution of the universe and of life, 31 October-4 November 2008
By: edited by Werner Arber, Nicola Cabibbo, Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo
Contributors: Arber, Werner; Cabibbo, N.; Sánchez Sorondo, Marcelo
Publisher: Ex Aedibus Academicis in Civitate Vaticana
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Vatican City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 620
ISBN-13: 9788877610973
Other titles: Scientific insights into the evolution of the universe and of life
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

One chapter also in German; one chapter in French.
Table of contents: title: Papst Benedikt XVI. uber "Schöpfung und Evolution" / Christoph Schönborn; title: The reflections of Joseph Ratzinger Pope Benedict XVI on evolution / Christoph Schönborn; title: From a simple big bang to our complex cosmos / Martin J. Rees; title: Scientific quest into evolution of life in the universe / Govind Swarup; title: The origin of the universe / Stephen Hawking; title: What we know, and what we don't know, about the universe / Vera C. Rubin; title: Galaxy evolution / José G. Funes; title: Rigorous logic in the theory of evolution / Antonino Zichichi; title: The search for the chemistry of life's origin / Albert Eschenmoser; title: The birth of oxygen / John Abelson; title: The genetic code and evolution / Marshall W. Nirenberg; title: The role of chance in evolution / Giorgio Bernardi; title: Bacterial evolution : random or selective? / Rafael Vicuña; title: From microbial genetics to molecular Darwinism and beyond / Werner Arber; title: Why it is useful to know the modern theory of evolution / Luigi L. Cavalli-Sforza and Francesco Cavalli-Sforza; title: The future of life / Christian de Duve; title: The evolutionary origin and process of the central nervous system : comparative genomics approach / Takashi Gojobori; title: Genetic and epigenetic shaping of cognition - prerequisites of cultural evolution / Wolf Singer; title: The language of God / Francis S. Collins; title: The bunch of prehumans and the emergence of the genus Homo / Yves Coppens; title: Culture in hominization and its implications in an evolutionary view / Fiorenzo Facchini; title: Cognition, consciousness, and culture : understanding human cognition and its grounding in a primate brain / Stanislas Dehaene; title: Evolution and creation : how to terminate with a false opposition between chance and creation : an epistemological note / Jean-Michel Maldamé; title: The human being - God's plan or just sheer chance? / Ulrich Lüke; title: The Catholic Church and evolutionary theory : a conflict model / Gereon Wolters; title: La doctrine philosophique et théologique de la création chez Thomas D'Aquin / Georges Cottier; title: Naturalness and directing human evolution : a philosophical note / Jürgen Mittelstrass; title: Evolution as science and ideology / Stanley L. Jaki; title: Plant breeding as an example of 'engineered' evolution / Ingo Potrykus; title: Digital intelligence : the evolution of a new human capacity / Antonio M. Battro; title: The teaching of evolution / Pierre J. Léna; title: The latest challenge to evolution : intelligent design / Maxine F. Singer; title: Statement by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on current scientific knowledge on cosmic evolution and biological evolution (revised draft of 24 January 2009) / W. Arber ... [et al.]; title: Summary / Christian de Duve.