Re: MD God After Darwin (article by J.F. Haught)

From: Moin Rahman (moinrahman@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu May 04 2000 - 22:01:18 BST


Can you e-mail a e-mail me a copy?

Thanks,
Moin

>From: "Jonathan Marder" <marder@agri.huji.ac.il>
>Reply-To: moq_discuss@moq.org
>To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
>Subject: MD God After Darwin (article by J.F. Haught)
>Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 09:53:08 +0300
>
>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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