Michael Ruse, Taking Darwin Seriously: A Naturalistic Approach (Oxford:
Blackwell, 1986); Michael Ruse,
"Evolutionary Ethics: A Pheonix Arisen," Zygon: Journal of
Religion & Science 21.1 (1986): 95-112; Michael Ruse,
"Evolutionary Theory and Christian Ethics: Are They in Harmony?" Zygon:
Journal of Religion and Science 29.1(March 1994); Michael Ruse,
"Evolutionary Ethics: What Can We Learn from the Past?" Zygon:
Journal of Religion and Science 34.3(September 1999). A defense of
sociobiology is particularly problemmatic when it involves trans-kin
altruism. Nevertheless Ruse has even
argued that the content of human rationality, and not morality, is determined
genetically. Against this, Francisco
Ayala and Camilo Cele-Conde argue that morality is an unintended byproduct of
the evolution of rational capacities, leaving its content a free variable for
individuals and societies to determine.
See REF Rolston for Ayala. See also C. J. Cela-Conde, On Genes,
Gods and Tyrants (Dortrecht: Reidel, 1986) Camilo Cela-Conde and Gisele Marty, "Beyond Biological
Evolution: Mind, Morals, and Culture," in Evolutionary and Molecular
Biology: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action, ed. Robert John Russell,
William R. Stoeger, S. J and Francisco J. Ayala (Vatican City State; Berkeley,
California: Vatican Observatory Publications; Center for Theology and the
Natural Sciences, 1998), and Francisco Ayala, "Human Nature: One
Evolutionist's View," in Whatever Happened to the Soul? Scientific and
Theological Portraits of Human Nature, ed. Warren S. Brown, Nancey Murphy and and H. Newton Malony (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1998). See also V. Elving Anderson, "A Genetic
View of Human Nature," in Whatever Happened to the Soul? Scientific and
Theological Portraits of Human Nature, ed. Warren S. Brown, Nancey Murphy and and H. Newton Malony (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1998). Michael
Ruse is profiled in the March, 1994 edition of Zygon (29.1).
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