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CREATED FOR EVERLASTING LIFE: CAN THEISTIC EVOLUTION PROVIDE AN ADEQUATE CHRISTIAN ACCOUNT OF HUMAN NATURE?

open access: yesZygon, 2013
Christians who affirm standard science and the biblical doctrine of creation often endorse theistic evolution as the best approach to human origins. But theistic evolution is ambiguous. Some versions are naturalistic (NTE)—God created humans entirely by
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The Evolution of Theisms: The Four Technological Revolutions and the Four Theistic Revolutions

open access: yesOpen Journal of Social Sciences, 2019
This paper posits that in the evolution of theisms, the main function of theism is to pacify enlarged social structure derived from technological revolution. Therefore, the four technological revolutions (the Upper Paleolithic, Agricultural-Bronze, Iron, and Industrial Revolutions) produce the four enlarged social structures (linked egalitarian bands ...
Dingyu Chung
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BECOMING HUMAN IN THEISTIC PERSPECTIVE

open access: yesZygon, 2012
This short paper provides the context for the six theological papers published in this issue that were part of a wider discussion with other scientists and theologians on becoming human. It raises the questions that the papers sought to address and shows
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SOCIAL NEUROSCIENCE AND THEISTIC EVOLUTION: INTERSUBJECTIVITY, LOVE, AND THE SOCIAL SPHERE

open access: yesZygon, 2013
After providing a brief overview of social neuroscience in the context of strong embodiment and the cognitive sciences, this paper addresses how perspectives from the field may inform how theological anthropology approaches the origins of human persons ...
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Metaphysics and Evolution: A Response to Dennis F. Polis [PDF]

open access: yesStudia Gilsoniana, 2021
This paper is a response to Dennis F. Polis’s article “The Compatibility of Evolution and Classical Metaphysics” (2020), which offered a critique of the author’s article “Classical Metaphysics and Theistic Evolution: Why Are They Incompatible?” (2019 ...
Michał Chaberek
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From Inconsistency to Consistency of Theism and Darwinian Evolution: A Critical Approach to Four Perspectives [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2015
In this paper, we present four philosophical approaches and their prominent advocates toward the problem of relationship between Darwinian evolution and theistic beliefs: (1) Atheistic Inconsistency: there is a deep conflict between Darwinian evolution ...
Seyyed Hassan Hosseini
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Thomistic Hylomorphism and Theistic Evolution

open access: yesScientia et Fides, 2023
Working within the framework of Thomistic metaphysics, Mariusz Tabaczek O. P. has developed a version of Catholic theistic evolution that includes speciation, human origins, and the origin of life. He assigns biological evolution to the domain of divine governance rather than that of creatio ex nihilo which only applies to primitive matter and human ...
Hofmann, J.R. (James R.)   +1 more
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Creazione e selezione naturale: l’«evoluzione teistica» di Asa Gray [PDF]

open access: yesS&F_scienzaefilosofia.it, 2022
A river of beneficial variations: Asa Gray’s theistic evolution This paper presents the american botanist Asa Gray’s «theistic evolution», founded on the idea of the compatibility between natural selection and natural theology, as it emerges from his ...
VISONE, ROBERTA
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On the Relationship between Design and Evolution

open access: yesReligions, 2023
A longstanding question in science and religion is whether standard evolutionary models are compatible with the claim that the world was designed. In The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, theologian E. V.
Stephen Dilley   +3 more
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Theistic Evolution

open access: yesFilozoficzne Aspekty Genezy, 2022
In this paper, I explore scientific, philosophical, and theological concerns that arise from adopting theistic evolution understood as claiming that the origin and development of life can be entirely accounted for in terms of the operation of natural causes, without any need to posit direct divine intervention.
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