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42. Information Science Topic: Techniques for Identifying Agency
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'bottom-up causation', or 'top-down/whole-part influence', we could produce a
graph showing the distribution of causal efficacy as it varies across the
components and joints that make up the system. I like the term 'system
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43. Biography: William Dembski
and
intelligent causation. The sequel to The Design Inference appeared with
Rowman & Littlefield in 2002 and critiques Darwinian and other naturalistic
accounts of evolution. It is titled No Free Lunch: Why Specified
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44. Divine Action Topic: Birch, Charles. Neo-Darwinism, Self-organization,...
for the idea of top-down
causation. Theologically, the potentiality of the universe is held in the mind
of God. Divine potentiality becomes concrete reality in the universe by means
of persuasive love. God interacts with individual entities in
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45. Divine Action Topic: Clayton, Philip, Neuroscience, the Person, and Go...
is
room for genuine mental causation - not all causes of human behavior are purely
neuronal causes.Claytons account of supervenience leads to an emergentist-monist account of the person:
monist because, while there are many
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46. Divine Action Topic: Drees, Willem B. Gaps for God?
or whole-part causation. Drees, however, rejects the attempt to
extrapolate from the context of nature as environment to the concept of God as
the worlds environment.
Given the various problems
with attempts to envisage
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47. Divine Action Topic: Ellis, George F. R. The Theology of the Anthropic...
of dealing with ultimate
causation without being incompatible with science.
Ellis provides a Christian
setting for the design argument by describing the essential core of New
Testament teaching based on Temples theology and
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48. Divine Action Topic: Haught, John F. Darwins Gift to Theology."
rules out unique mechanical causation from
past events and is commensurate with process theologys insistence on the power
of the future and on God as the ultimate source of all possibilities.
Haught returns then to his initial question:
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49. Divine Action Topic: Ward, Keith. God as a Principle of Cosmological E...
is one of non-temporal causation.
Whether there was a first moment is irrelevant to the doctrine.
Ward admits that this view
of God is congruent with the block universe interpretation of special
relativity , but he is highly critical of
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50. Divine Action Topic: Murphy, Nancey. Divine Action in the Natural Orde...
views of matter and causation from ancient to modern
philosophy. The historical survey is intended to put in question current
metaphysical assumptions about the nature of matter and of natural causes, as a
prelude to considering the
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