Hefner , Philip. “Biocultural Evolution: A Clue to the Meaning of Nature." Philip Hefner begins with the “two-natured” character of the human: the confluence of genetic and cultural information. These co-exist

Philip Hefner Philip Hefner is Professor of Systematic Theology, Editor of Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, and past president of the Zygon Center for Religion and Science . B.A. Midland Lutheran College 1954; B.D. Chicago

According to Edwards, Philip Hefner sees the human being as a symbiosis of genes and culture. Religion is the central dimension of culture. In view of the ecological crisis we have brought about we need a theology of the human as created

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Oxford: Clarendon, 2001. Hefner , Philip. The Human Factor : Evolution, Culture, and Religion . Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 1993. Kitcher, Philip. Vaulting Ambition: Sociobiology and the Quest for Human Nature . Cambridge, MA: MIT

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37 (2002): 345 - 59. Hefner , Philip. “Science-and-Religion and the Search for Meaning.” Zygon 31 (1996): 307 - 21. Peters, Ted . “Science and Theology: Toward Consonance.” In Science and Theology: The New

Howell says, as defined by Philip Hefner , indicates the “primacy of God’s creativity.” Creation of the cosmos ex nihilo , out of nothing, demonstrates the universe’s dependence on God for existence. Humans, in turn, are

to Theology." Hefner, Philip. “Biocultural Evolution: A Clue to the Meaning of Nature." Pope John Paul II. “Message to the Vatican Observatory Conference on Evolutionary and