TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rescher,Nicholas
TI  - Productive evolution: on reconciling evolution with intelligent design 
SN  - 9783110320145
AV  - BL263 .R47 2011eb
U1  - 231.7652 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Frankfurt, New Brunswick
PB  - Ontos Verlag
KW  - Evolution (Biology)
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Intelligent design (Teleology)
KW  - Dessein intelligent
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christian Theology
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Table of Contents -- PREFACE -- Chapter One: EVOLUTIONARY PROCESSES -- Chapter 2: HOMO SAPIENS AND THE EVOLUTION OF INTELLIGENCE -- Chapter Three: AMPHIBIOUS MAN: THE EVOLUTION OF IMAGINATION -- Chapter 4: THE CULTURAL EVOLUTION OF COMMUNAL PRACTICES IN INQUIRY; Chapter 5: RATIONAL SELECTION: THE CASE OF SCIENTIFIC METHOD Chapter 6: MIND/MATTER COORDINATION AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE WILL -- Chapter 7: EVOLUTION AND INTELLIGENT DESIGN -- Chapter 8: MEETING THEOLOGICAL OBJECTIONS TO EVOLUTION; Chapter 9: MEETING SCIENTISTIC OBJECTIONS TO INTELLIGENT DESIGN References -- Name Index
N2  - A doctrine of intelligent design through evolution is not going to find many friends. It is destined to encounter opposition on all sides. Among scientists the backlog of evolution will have little patience for intelligent design. Among religiousists, many who form intelligent design have their doubts about evolution. In the general public's mind there is a diametrical opposition between evolution and intelligent design: one excludes the other. This book will argue that this view of the matter is not correct, and that in actuality one can regard evolution itself as a pathway to intelligent design. We would do well to go beyond The Origin of Species and-taking as our guide such works as W. Wentworth Thomson's On Growth and Form acknowledging that evolutionary adaptation can result in solutions of a sort that intelligence could readily ratify. Accordingly, what the present book seeks is a naturalization of Intelligent Design that sees such design as itself the result of natural and evolutionary processes
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