Evolutionary and molecular biology : scientific perspectives on divine action /

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Imprint:Vatican City State : Vatican Observatory ; Berkeley, Calif. : Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, 1998.
Description:xxxiv, 551 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Series on "Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action" ; 3rd v.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3901836
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Varying Form of Title:Scientific perspectives on divine action
Other authors / contributors:Russell, Robert J.
Stoeger, William R.
Ayala, Francisco JoseĢ, 1934-
Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences.
ISBN:0268027536 (pbk.)
Notes:Papers resulting from a conference at the Vatican Observatory, Italy, June 1996.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Robert John Russell
  • Message to the Vatican Observatory Conference on Evolutionary and Molecular Biology / John Paul II
  • Message to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences / John Paul II
  • Evolution and the Human Person: The Pope in Dialogue / George V. Coyne
  • The Evolution of Life: An Overview / Francisco J. Ayala
  • The Hominid Evolutionary Journey: A Summary / Camilo J. Cela-Conde
  • The Phenomenon of the Eukaryotic Cell / Julian Chela-Flores
  • Darwin's Devolution: Design Without Designer / Francisco J. Ayala
  • Evaluating the Teleological Argument for Divine Action / Wesley J. Wildman
  • Teleology Without Teleology: Purpose through Emergent Complexity / Paul Davies
  • The Immanent Directionality of the Evolutionary Process, and its Relationship to Teleology / William R. Stoeger
  • Special Providence and Genetic Mutation: A New Defense of Theistic Evolution / Robert John Russell
  • Neo-Darwinism, Self-organization, and Divine Action in Evolution / Charles Birch
  • The Thinking Underlying the New 'Scientific' World-views / George F. R. Ellis
  • Darwin's Revolution in the Origin of Species: A Hermeneutical Study of the Movement from Natural Theology to Natural Selection / Anne M. Clifford
  • Evolutionary Naturalism and Religion / Willem B. Drees
  • Biocultural Evolution: A Clue to the Meaning of Nature / Philip Hefner
  • Biological Evolution - A Positive Theological Appraisal / Arthur Peacocke
  • Original Sin and Saving Grace in Evolutionary Context / Denis Edwards
  • Darwin's Gift to Theology / John F. Haught
  • Five Models of God and Evolution / Ian G. Barbour
  • Beyond Biological Evolution: Mind, Morals, and Culture / Camilo J. Cela-Conde and Gisele Marty
  • Supervenience and the Nonreducibility of Ethics to Biology / Nancey Murphy
  • Playing God with Our Evolutionary Future / Ted Peters
  • Evolution, Divine Action, and the Problem of Evil / Thomas F. Tracy.