Divine action and natural selection : science, faith, and evolution / editors, Joseph Seckbach, Richard Gordon.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

pt. 1. Background in theology, philosophy and science. 1. Scientists and beliefs / Christian de Duve. 2. Evolution and intelligent design. Who needs God? / George V. Coyne. 3. The enigma of final causality: biological causality in Aristotle and neo-Darwinism / Edward Oakes. 4. Astrobiological reflections on faith and reason: the issues of agnosticism, relativism and natural selection / Julian Chela-Flores. 5. The God detector: a thought experiment / Bruce Damer. 6. Welcome to the simulation / Tom Barbalet. 7. Darwinian evolution: a practical tool in industry / Stephen P. McGrew -- pt. 2. Towards harmony between science and religion. 8. Could natural selection be purposive? / Ernan McMullin. 9. Neo-Darwinism and random variation, or why it's important to read Darwin carefully / Oren Solomon Harman. 10. Increasingly overlapping magisteria of science and religion / Charles H. Lineweaver. 11. A Cabbalistic interpretation of the theory of evolution based on the teachings of Rabbi Kook: natural selection and its moral implication / Dov Berger. 12. Over-confident anti-creationists versus over-confident creationists / Richard Gordon -- pt. 3. Is a purely scientific approach to the origin of life in the universe sufficient? 13. French views on the origin of life combined with theological thoughts: from Louis Pasteur (1860) to Edmond Perrier (1920) / Florence Raulin Cerceau. 14. The nature of the origin-of-life problem / Peter R. Bahn. 15. Did life on Earth begin suddenly and in complex forms? / Harun Yahya. 16. The origin and creation of life / Oktar Babuna. 17. Hoyle's tornado origin of artificial life: a computer programming challenge / Richard Gordon -- pt. 4. Scientific views on divine action. 18. The laws of evolution and Judaism: lack of communication / Mordechai Halperin. 19. Evangelicals fighting doubt, not Darwin / Frits Bienfait. 20. Creationism: an investigation into its psychological and cultural origins / K. Tahir Shah. 21. Evolution and providence / Benjamin Fain. 22. God and chance / Jerome Yehuda Gellman. 23. The concept of randomness in science and divine providence / Stephen M. Barr. 24. The truth about transitional fossils / Donald R. Prothero -- pt. 5. A dialogue between faith and reason. 25. Evolution and the Bible: the secular approach / Malcolm E. Schrader. 26. Muslim resistance to Darwinian evolution / Taner Edis. 27. To creation via evolution? Creationists' about-face, or a belated insight of reflective evolutionists? / Josef Svoboda. 28. Fundamental complexity measures of life / Attila Grandpierre. 29. Evolutionary mechanisms and intelligent design / Natan Slifkin -- pt. 6. Science curricula in schools of various countries. 30. The divine creation and biological evolution: the experience of the teaching of evolution in Russian secondary school / Galina L. Muravnik. 31. Message of the Bible or theory of Darwin? A pseudo problem: an interdisciplinary statement on the current controversy in Germany / Hermann Josef Roth. 32. Teaching evolution in Poland: the education system and the creation-evolution debate / Karol Sabath -- pt. 7. Are there possible avenues towards convergence? 33. Intelligent design vs. evolution theory / Doron Aurbach. 34. When science renounces a facet of reason: biology's choice between solipsism and intelligent design / Michael J. Behe. 35. The right and the wrong of intelligent design / Gerald Schroeder. 36. Is "intelligent design" science? or, What enables human beings to be intelligent designers? / Elia M. Leibowitz. 37. The collapse of the theory of evolution / Cihat Gèundoægdu. 38. The evolution controversy and randomness / Lee M. Spetner -- pt. 8. Intelligent life in the universe and divine action. 39. Neurobiological foundations of religion and science / Juan G. Roederer. 40. Intelligent design and the science of space / Seth Shostak. 41. Language, complexity, and design / John Baumgardner. 42. Evolution of intelligence in the bio-world / Arie S. Issar. 43. Creation and evolution in harmonic juxtaposition in Nahua culture / Sandra Ramos-Amâezquita [and others]. 44. Evolution: myths and facts / Arnie Gotfryd.

The debate between divine action, or faith, and natural selection, or science, is garnering tremendous interest. This book ventures well beyond the usual, contrasting American Protestant and atheistic points of view, and also includes the perspectives of Jews, Muslims, and Roman Catholics. It contains arguments from the various proponents of intelligent design, creationism, and Darwinism, and also covers the sensitive issue of how to incorporate evolution into the secondary school biology curriculum. Comprising contributions from prominent, award-winning authors, the book also contains dialogs following each chapter to provide extra stimulus to the readers and a full picture of this "hot" topic, which delves into the fundamentals of science and religion.

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