11. Divine Action Topic: Natural Theology
Natural Theology
Clifford, Anne M.
Darwins Revolution in the Origin of Species:
A Hermeneutical Study of the Movement form Natural
Theology to Natural Selection."
Book
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12. Divine Action Topic: Ayala, Francisco J. Darwins Devolution: Des...
and in the
century since. Natural selection is creative: in a sieve- like way it retains
rare but useful genes. But natural selection is not creative in the Christian
sense of creatio ex nihilo . Instead it is like a
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13. Intelligent Design Topic: The Darwinian mechanism
genetic variation and natural selection . As
Dembski s expresses it, The Darwinian mechanism consists of random variation,
which provides the raw material for Darwinian evolution, and natural selection ,
which sifts that
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14. Evolution Topic: Chance and Necessity
variations available
to natural selection arise at random, independently of whether
they are beneficial or harmful to their carriers. But this random
process (as well as others that come to play in the great theatre
of life) is counteracted by
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15. History Topic: Darwinism Comes to America
had originated without
supernatural assistance by means of natural selection and other
biological mechanisms. According to natural selection, evolution
occurred when organisms possessing certain advantageous characteristics
survived in the
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16. Interview: Richard Dawkins
What it means is that natural
selection , Darwinian natural selection, which is the process that has brought all living things to be the way they are, is best seen
at the gene level, is best seen as a process of differential survival
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17. Evolution Topic: Evolution: Topic Index
the universe is governed by natural laws
that account for natural phenomena. Darwin completed the Copernican
Revolution by extending that commitment to the living world.
The second proposition is that natural selection is a creative
process
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18. Intelligent Design Topic: Intelligent Design as a Positive Research Program
understanding of artificial selection to natural selection, the intelligent design research program next attempts to formalize and extend our commonsense understanding of design inferences so that they can be rigorously applied in scientific
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19. Genetics Topic: Sondra Wheeler
We must take note of all the natural uncertainties that attend the
existence of this very early form of human life, such that it seems that fewer
than half of fertilized embryos successfully survive to implant and begin
development.
This
careful
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20. Evolution Topic: Teleology and Teleological Explanations
agent but result from some natural process
exhibit natural (or internal) teleology. The wings of birds have
a natural teleology; they serve an end, flying, but their configuration
is not due to the conscious design of any agent. We may
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