21. Information Science Topic: The World as Gods Body
'blunt' nature of downward causation to account for the
minimal ways in which we can see the Divine acting at the level of human
experience; as in 'trickle-down economics' the lower levels may not see the
effects originating at higher levels.
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22. Divine Action Topic: Ellis, George F.R. Quantum Theory and the Macrosc...
(e.g., when
bottom-up causation dominates and microcomponents maintain their individual
properties) and when it is not suitable (e.g., when either top-down causation
is involved or when cooperative phenomena change the behavior of
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23. Ecology Topic: The Physicalist Thesis
that the main issue is causation.
To say that the mental level of functioning is not reducible is to say
that a complete causal account of what goes on in the world has to take it into
account.
Now it may
be difficult, surprisingly so,
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24. General Term: Campbell, Donald
the concept of downward causation .
Related Topics:
Philosophy
Contributed
by: Dr. Nancey Murphy
Search
for Campbell, Donald
Full Glossary Index
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25. Intelligent Design Topic: Why focus on the bacterial flagellum?
the limitations of natural
causation and the consequent necessity for supplemental action by a non-natural
intelligent agent.
Sometimes, however, Dembskis purely
theoretical argumentation regarding these issues seems abstruse and
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26. Intelligent Design Topic: Introduction
demonstrated that natural causation is unable to generate this
specified complexity and that the assembling of these biological systems must,
therefore, have required the aid of a non-natural action called intelligent
design. In his
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27. Intelligent Design Topic: Introduction[TOPIC-FILE:../id-hvt/index]
demonstrated that natural causation is unable to generate this
specified complexity and that the assembling of these biological systems must,
therefore, have required the aid of a non-natural action called intelligent
design. In his
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28. Question Home: Are we Free?
Downward
Causation
Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit
Different
Understandings of Chance
Determinism,
Indeterminism and Their Implications
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29. Interview: Anindita N. Balslev
Problems of Beginnings and Causation
The Congruence of Cosmological Ideas and Hindu Thought
The Cosmology and the Religious Quest
The Need for Wisdom in Addition to Knowledge
Caution Against Searching for Support for
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30. Interview: A Beginningless Universe?
of Beginnings and
Causation
Play
David Ray Griffin on Process Theology
Play
Trinh Xuan Thuan on Buddhist Perspectives on Design
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