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Purpose in the living world? : creation and emergent evolution / Jacob Klapwijk ; translated and edited by Harry Cook.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Dutch Publication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 311 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781139129794
  • 1139129791
  • 9780511813818
  • 0511813813
Uniform titles:
  • Heeft de evolutie een doel? English
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Purpose in the living world?DDC classification:
  • 231.7/652 22
LOC classification:
  • BL263 .K5313 2008eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Does life on earth have a purpose? -- Creationism, intelligent design, and Augustine's idea of time -- Darwin, neo-Darwinism, and the naturalistic continuity claim -- Miller's pre-biotic broth and the premises of evolutionism -- A cold shudder along Darwin's back -- The emergence theory of Morgan and Alexander -- Luctor et emergo : what is emergent evolution? -- Toward a general theory of emergent evolution -- Hominization and the philosophy of mind -- Augustinian faith and evolutionary science -- The organism is a whole, the world is a habitat -- The slumbering temptation of essentialism -- Questions surrounding the emergence process -- Enkapsis in nature : is there an omega point?
Summary: Are evolution and creation irreconcilably opposed? Is 'intelligent design' theory an unhappy compromise? Is there another way of approaching the present-day divide between religious and so-called secular views of the origins of life? Jacob Klapwijk offers a philosophical analysis of the relation of evolutionary biology to religion, and addresses the question of whether the evolution of life is exclusively a matter of chance or is better understood as including the notion of purpose. Writing from a Christian (Augustinian) point of view, he criticizes creationism and intelligent design theory as well as opposing reductive naturalism. He offers an alternative to both and an attempt to bridge the gap between them, via the idea of 'emergent evolution'. In this theory the process of evolution has an emergent or innovative character resulting in a living world of ingenious, multifaceted complexity.
List(s) this item appears in: Creation - Science - Evolution
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-303) and index.

Does life on earth have a purpose? -- Creationism, intelligent design, and Augustine's idea of time -- Darwin, neo-Darwinism, and the naturalistic continuity claim -- Miller's pre-biotic broth and the premises of evolutionism -- A cold shudder along Darwin's back -- The emergence theory of Morgan and Alexander -- Luctor et emergo : what is emergent evolution? -- Toward a general theory of emergent evolution -- Hominization and the philosophy of mind -- Augustinian faith and evolutionary science -- The organism is a whole, the world is a habitat -- The slumbering temptation of essentialism -- Questions surrounding the emergence process -- Enkapsis in nature : is there an omega point?

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Are evolution and creation irreconcilably opposed? Is 'intelligent design' theory an unhappy compromise? Is there another way of approaching the present-day divide between religious and so-called secular views of the origins of life? Jacob Klapwijk offers a philosophical analysis of the relation of evolutionary biology to religion, and addresses the question of whether the evolution of life is exclusively a matter of chance or is better understood as including the notion of purpose. Writing from a Christian (Augustinian) point of view, he criticizes creationism and intelligent design theory as well as opposing reductive naturalism. He offers an alternative to both and an attempt to bridge the gap between them, via the idea of 'emergent evolution'. In this theory the process of evolution has an emergent or innovative character resulting in a living world of ingenious, multifaceted complexity.