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BECOMING HUMAN IN THEISTIC PERSPECTIVE
Zygon, 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
Celia Deane-Drummond
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The Evolution of Theisms: The Four Technological Revolutions and the Four Theistic Revolutions
Open 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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Metaphysics and Evolution: A Response to Dennis F. Polis [PDF]
Studia 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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SOCIAL NEUROSCIENCE AND THEISTIC EVOLUTION: INTERSUBJECTIVITY, LOVE, AND THE SOCIAL SPHERE
Zygon, 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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From Inconsistency to Consistency of Theism and Darwinian Evolution: A Critical Approach to Four Perspectives [PDF]
پژوهشنامه 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
Scientia 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]
S&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
Religions, 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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Filozoficzne 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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Naturalism Fails an Empirical Test: Darwin’s “Dangerous” Idea in Retrospect
Open Theology, 2023 In his theory of evolution by natural selection, Charles Darwin provided a plausible alternative to Christianity’s creation account of human origins. In response, the Christian botanist Asa Gray suggested that the variation that drives evolution might be
Byrne Charles
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