31. Science and Religion Topic: Stephen Meyer: The New Cosmology: Theistic Impl...
a need for some religious or metaphysical explanation.
I believe in the concept of God and in His existence.
Charles Townes, Nobel Laureate
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32. Divine Action Topic: Barbour, Ian. Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligen...
provides a supportive
metaphysical framework for understanding the concept of human nature that he
has developed in this essay. Alfred North Whitehead s philosophy emphasizes
processes or events rather than substances. These events
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33. Divine Action Topic: Chaos and Complexity
of nature based on metaphysical
determinism and indeterminism? In what ways do they shed light on the problem
of general and special providence, and in particular on a non-interventionist
understanding of objectively special divine
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34. Divine Action Topic: Clayton, Philip. Tracing the Lines: Constraint an...
may be compelling, their metaphysical conclusions, like any others, are
options not directly supported by physics. Finally Clayton turns to theistic metaphysics,
considering both classical theism and panentheism . Theism asserts that the
world
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35. Divine Action Topic: Gilkey, Langdon. The God of Nature.
upon a particular metaphysical
structuring of experience.
Consequently, the aspects of
nature suggested by the sciences must be represented in ontological categories.
Beyond and through the abstractions of the scientific
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36. Divine Action Topic: Happel, Stephen The Soul and Neuroscience: Possib...
coheres with Aquinass metaphysical vocabulary regarding
intellectual powers: the world of interiority that Husserl examines turns from
the consciousness of the subject to a self- reflexive knowledge of that
subject; the unified body and
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37. Divine Action Topic: Haught, John F. Darwins Gift to Theology."
these concepts are open to metaphysical and
theological grounding and that a careful understanding of God renders an
evolving natural world more intelligible. Rather than a danger, Darwin offers
theology a gift: the context for a doctrine of God
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38. Divine Action Topic: Murphy, Nancey. Supervenience and the Nonreducibi...
embody what is, in fact, a metaphysical
assumption. Modern thought also extended atomism to areas such as political
philosophy and ethics through the writings of Thomas Hobbes and Immanuel Kant .
Still, the determinism of the laws of physics
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39. Divine Action Topic: Peacocke, Arthur. Biological Evolution - A Positi...
in turn was elevated to a metaphysical principle by
Jacques Monod, who rejected Gods involvement in evolution, but Peacocke
disagrees. Instead, chance connotes the many ways in which potential forms of
organization are thoroughly explored
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40. Genetics Topic: Are We Asking Our Scientists to Play God?
attempt to give metaphysical meaning
to its emerging technological relationship with nature. Rifkins message is that we ought to let nature be. In advocating
this hands off policy, Rifkin does not appeal to any
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