31. Evolution Topic: The Compatiblity of Teological and Causal Explanations
in a population by natural selection . But these causal
explanations do not make it unnecessary to provide teleological
explanations where appropriate. Both teleological and causal explanations
are called for in such cases.
Paley 's
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32. Evolution and Providence Topic: Ruse on Teaching 'Intelligent Design'
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Related Topics:
Natural Theology vs Theology of
Nature
Dembski: Intelligent Design Coming
Clean
History of Intelligent Design
Darwin's
Discovery: Design without Designer
Natural
Selection as a
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33. Divine Action Topic: Peacocke, Arthur. Biological Evolution - A Positi...
on the central role of natural selection , some believe selection alone
cannot account for the whole story. Peacocke describes eight approaches to the
question which operate entirely within a naturalistic framework, assume a
Darwinian
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34. God, Humanity and the Cosmos Topic: Darwins Evolutionary Scheme
injurious variations, I call Natural
Selection. Variations neither useful
nor injurious would not be affected by natural selection, and would be left a
fluctuating element... (p131)
It follows that as each selected
and favoured form increases in
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35. Intro Topic: Evolution
of Species by Means of Natural
Selection ". Darwin's book suggested that instead of being specially created
by God, humans were the product of biological evolution. As he later wrote:
"Man is descended from a hairy quadruped,
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36. Divine Action Topic: Birch, Charles. Neo-Darwinism, Self-organization,...
differences in the object of selection, the problem of deleterious
mutations, subtleties concerning the role of chance, the genetic assimilation
of environmental effects, influences on natural selection by modification of
the environment, and both
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37. Evolution and Providence Topic: Michael Ruse - Presentation
Darwin , Erasmus Darwin, Natural Selection , Natural Theology , Richard
Dawkins , Steven J Gould , Eugenics , Sociobiology
Topic
Index
Next >
Jeffrey Schloss - Presentation
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38. Intelligent Design Topic: E. coli and its Rotary Propulsion System: Dembski&...
evolved via the
Darwinian selection mechanism from a bacterium without a flagellum. For this
mechanism to produce the flagellum, chance modifications have to generate the
various proteins that constitute the flagellum and then selection must
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39. Origins Topic: Michael Ruse - Presentation
Darwin , Erasmus Darwin, Natural Selection ,
Natural Theology , Richard Dawkins , Steven J Gould , Eugenics , Sociobiology
Topic
Index
Next >
Jeffrey Schloss - Presentation
Show
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40. Divine Action Topic: Ayala, Francisco J. The Evolution of Life: An Ove...
on Darwin, who proposed natural selection
to account for the adaptive organization of living creatures and their apparent
purpose or design. Missing in Darwins work was a theory of inheritance that
would account for the preservation of
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