Purpose in the living world
Subtitle: creation and emergent evolution
By: Jacob Klapwijk.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780521493406; 9780521729437
Subjects: Evolution (Biology) -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Evolution (Biology); Creation; Teleology; Creationism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Does life on earth have a purpose?; title: A quest for meaning; title: Planned approach; title: Creationism, intelligent design, and Augustine's idea of time; title: Creation and creationism; title: Life based on an intelligent design; title: A bridge between science and faith; title: Creation stories and their practical intent; title: Augustine : time is a creature of God; title: Darwin, neo-darwinism, and the naturalistic continuity claim; title: Darwin's theory of evolution : the CVST algorithm; title: Evolution theory and evolutionism; title: The ambiguity of naturalism; title: Continuity and reducibility; title: Miller's pre-biotic broth and the premises of evolutionism; title: Origin of life : a category mistake; title: Survival of the fittest : a tautology; title: Evolution of science : a performative contradiction; title: Cold shudder along Darwin's back; title: The durability of biological species; title: Gradualism and punctuated equilibria; title: The ancient lithographic bird; title: God, time, and taxonomy; title: The emergence theory of Morgan and Alexander; title: Emergence according to Morgan and Alexander; title: The intentionality of human consciousness; title: Metaphysics and the standpoint of experience; title: Luctor et Emergo : what is emergent evolution?; title: Mozart and 'Twinkle, twinkle little star'; title: Organizational levels in nature; title: Entities and modalities; title: Supervenience, correlation, and idionomy; title: Chimpanzees and the HIV virus; title: Michael Behe and his mousetrap; title: Toward a general theory of emergent evolution; title: John Searle and the mystery of consciousness; title: Peter Checkland and the structures of society; title: Ontological stratification; title: Hominization and the philosophy of mind; title: Emergent evolution as a conceptual scheme; title: The human person and the mask; title: The anthropic principle; title: Biological constants / Conway Morris; title: Methodological naturalism; title: The problem of David Chalmers; title: Augustinian faith and evolutionary science; title: The creation account and the story of becoming; title: Fides quaerit intellectum : a hermeneutic horizon; title: Pakicetus, the swimming ungulate; title: Personal experiences; title: The organism is a whole, the world is a habitat; title: J.C. Smuts, holism. and evolution; title: Eenzymes, neurons, and emotions; title: The life-world; title: From biosphere to noosphere; title: New age and Brahman; title: The slumbering temptation of essentialism; title: Is there a creation order? / Herman Dooyeweerd; title: The standpoint of experience and metaphysics; title: The reflective-empirical method; title: The reflective-empirical method and living nature; title: Type laws : an essentialist error; title: Escaping essentialism; title: Questions surrounding the emergence process; title: Hidden configurations in nature : prions; title: John Paul II on the evolution problem; title: Ontological profile and evolutionary process : Neanderthals; title: The last great narrative; title: Enkapsis in nature : is there an Omega point?; title: Self-subordination in Baja California; title: "Desert storm" and other miracles; title: The kingdom of God as final stage : Teilhard and Laszlo; title: Human experiences are ambiguous.