Hi all,
The various threads I was participating in have all petered out, but I'm still
listening in!
I found a new article that I consider a "must read" to anyone who participated
or took interest in the "Random Patterns" thread, or who was interested in my
own article "The End of Causality" (available at
http://www.moq.org/forum/jonathanmarder1.html or
http://agri3.huji.ac.il/~marder/Science_Philosophy/Causality.htm )
The new article deals with Darwinism, theology, order and
chaos etc.
Details:
God After Darwin
Beyond Materialism and "Intelligent Design"
by John F. Haught
http://www.biomednet.com/hmsbeagle/77/viewpts/op_ed
There is one unfortunate catch - you have to register with Biomednet (free) to
gain access.
If anyone wants we to arrange for them to get the article by e-mail, PLEASE ASK.
I can do that on an individual basis, but for copyright reasons can't
redistribute the article generally to the whole list.
Here are a couple of quotes to whet your appetites:
<<<Almost all religions, and not just Christianity, have envisaged the cosmos as
the expression of a transcending "Order," "Wisdom," or "Rightness." Most have
held that there is some unfathomable "point" to the universe, and that the world
is enshrouded in meaning. The elements of chance and blind selection in the
Darwinian picture of life, however, make traditional ideas of cosmic purpose
seem superfluous and possibly incoherent. After weighing the now well-founded
accounts of life's lumbering journey on Earth, any subsequent talk about divine
"intelligent design" can seem especially unsubstantial.>>>
<<<The problem with both scientific materialism and theological "intelligent
design theory" is that they fail to deal with the rich reality of actual life.
Both purchase intellectual clarity at the price of leaving out the novelty,
chaos, cooperativeness, relationality, indeterminacy, openness, and organicism
characteristic of living beings and processes. >>>
Jonathan Marder
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