Evolution and Religion
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Special Evolutionary Issue of the online journal Politics and Culture. Edited by Joseph Carroll. http://politicsandculture.org/2010/04/28/contents-2/ 27 essays organized under five headings: (1) The Evolutionary Turn in Psychology and... more
Many contemporary Jains assert that the ancient tradition of Jainism is compatible with modern science. Some authors specifically attempt to demonstrate the early evolutionary insights of “Jaina biology” which, when compared to Darwin’s... more
This book addresses the relationship between religion and knowledge from a sociological perspective, taking both religion and knowledge as phenomena located within ever changing social contexts. It builds on historical foundations, but... more
This paper represents a detailed analysis of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook's evolutionary understanding of taamei hamitzvot ("reasons for the commandments"), which he invokes to bridge modernity and tradition, philosophy and Jewish mysticism,... more
Las relaciones entre ciencia y religión han sido a lo largo de los años un tanto turbulentas. En el siglo XX, entre quienes buscaban apaciguar esta situación se encontraba el físico Pascual Jordan, uno de los fundadores de la física... more
Abstract: The purpose of human evolution seen from the point of view of a palaeontologist, computer scientist and Christian. Resumen: La meta de la evolución humana desde el punto de vista de un paleontólogo, informático y cristiano.... more
On the Jubjub bird and on Charles Darwin and evolution being possibly addressed in Lewis Carroll's and Henry Holiday's "The Hunting of the Snark". --- 1st: 2015-01-01, update (minor changes): 2015-01-02 19:07 UTC. --- Errata (corrected on... more
"Building on debates in the sociology of knowledge, this chapter explores how the recent popularity of creationist ideas within contemporary western cultures may be explained with reference to social structural changes. A brief history of... more
The rapid development of empirical science (physics, biology) and theoretical disciplines (theoretical physics) related to them, results in many theories on the origin, evolution and nature of the world, sometimes interpreted as... more
Q. As far as what I read from your book, you believe in evolution and think it goes along with religion? Yes. The idea of Evolution is not in conflict with the belief in Creation of Species. Today evolution has gotten past the point of... more
Questions about our origin as a species are universal and compelling. Evolution-and in particular human evolution is a subject that generates intense interest across the world, evidenced by the fact that fossil and DNA discoveries grace... more
Die Herausgeber dieses Buches sind der Meinung: die Frage nach Gott bleibt eine offene Frage. Die Frage nach Gott kann wie viele andere existentielle Fragen unseres Lebens, wie die nach dem Sinn der Welt, nicht über exakte Methoden... more
Las relaciones entre ciencia y religion han sido a lo largo de los anos un tanto turbulentas. En el siglo XX, entre quienes buscaban apaciguar esta situacion se encontraba el fisico Pascual Jordan, uno de los fundadores de la fisica... more
ntelligent design (ID) is a nonscientific idea that holds certain features of the universe and living things as too complex to have arisen through undirected, chance processes such as evolution by natural selection. Instead, proponents... more
According to Thomas Jefferson, the US Constitution created a wall of separation between church and state, religion and society. Yet, religion has played a significant political role in US history. It has helped communities bond together,... more
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