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. Ayala,
"Darwin's Devolution: Design Without Designer," 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); 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);
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. 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 Metaphysical Foundations of
Modern Physical Science; a Historical and Critical Essay, Rev. ed.
(Atlantic Highlands, N. J.: Humanities Press, 1952); Gerald Holton,
"Einstein, Michelson, and the "Crucial" Experiment," in Thematic
Origins of Scientific Theough: Kepler to Einstein (Cambridge,
Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1973/1980), esp. I, II, III/13.
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