For
subtle discussions of a spectrum of positions on the adequacy of science to
account for nature, the possibility of wider perspectives, and the historical
judgments made on these questions, see for example Francisco J. <!g>Ayala,
"<!g>Darwin's Devolution: Design Without Designer," in <!g>Evolutionary
and Molecular Biology: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action, ed. <!g>Robert
John Russell, William R. Stoeger and Francisco J. Ayala (Vatican City State; Berkeley,
Calif.: Vatican Observatory Publications; <!g>Center for Theology and the Natural
Sciences, 1998); <!g>Wesley J. Wildman, "Evaluating the Teleological Argument
for Divine Action," in Evolutionary and Molecular Biology: Scientific
Perspectives on Divine Action, ed. Robert John Russell, William R. Stoeger
and Francisco J. Ayala (Vatican City State; Berkeley, Calif.: Vatican
Observatory Publications; Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, 1998);
<!g>Charles Birch, "Neo-Darwinism, Self-Organization, and Divine
Action in Evolution," in Evolutionary and Molecular Biology: Scientific
Perspectives on Divine Action, ed. Robert John Russell, William R. Stoeger
and Francisco J. Ayala (Vatican City State; Berkeley, Calif.: Vatican
Observatory Publications; Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, 1998);
Ian G. <!g>Barbour, "Five Models of God and Evolution," in Evolutionary
and Molecular Biology: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action, ed. Robert
John Russell, William R. Stoeger and Francisco J. Ayala (Vatican City State;
Berkeley, Calif.: Vatican Observatory Publications; Center for Theology and the
Natural Sciences, 1998); Edwin A. Burtt, The <!g>Metaphysical Foundations of
Modern Physical Science; a Historical and Critical Essay, Rev. ed.
(Atlantic Highlands, N. J.: Humanities Press, 1952); Gerald Holton,
"<!g>Einstein, Michelson, and the "Crucial" Experiment," in Thematic
Origins of Scientific Theough: <!g>Kepler to Einstein (Cambridge,
Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1973/1980), esp. I, II, III/13.
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