God and Evolution: Fundamental Questions of Christian Evolutionism
God and Evolution: Fundamental Questions of Christian Evolutionism
by Jozef Zycinski and Józef Życiński translated by Kenneth W. Kemp and Zuzanna Maslanka
Catholic University of America Press, 2006 eISBN: 978-0-8132-1598-3 | Paper: 978-0-8132-1470-2 Library of Congress Classification BL263.Z9313 2006 Dewey Decimal Classification 231.7652
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Written by Archbishop Józef Zycinski of Lublin, this book offers an important and insightful examination of the basic philosophical questions involved in the relation between evolutionary theory and the Christian religion.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Interdisciplinary Dialogue in Place of Monologues 5
Part One
Biology and Metaphysics in Charles Darwin?s Conception of Evolution 12
The Sphere of Inductive Epistemology
The Co-existence of Science and Faith
Theological Motifs in the Thought of Darwin
The Search for a Theology of Darwinism
Fundamentalisms and Evolution
The Origin of Christian Fundamentalism
Fundamentalist Interpretation of Biblical Texts
The Fundamentalism of Philip E. Johnson
Fundamentalism and Catholicism
Elements of Fundamentalism in Atheistic Evolutionism
Elements of Agnosticism and Atheism in Evolutionary Views of Nature
Religious Agnosticism and the Principle of Ockham?s Razor
Epistemological Clarity in Place of Fundamentalisms
Evolution and Christian Thought in Dialog according to the Teaching of John Paul II
Evolutionism according to the Message to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Philosophical Questions of Evolutionism
Scientific Emergentism and Ontological Emergentism
The Immanent Divine Logos
Part Two
Ontological Naturalism and the Role of Supervenience in Evolution 81
Methodological Naturalism and Ontological Naturalism
Methodological Naturalism and ?Theistic Science?
Theistic Naturalism?
The Role of Supervenience in the Debate about Naturalism
Supervenience in Evolution
Theistic Implications of Supervenience
Varieties of Teleology in the Philosophical Interpretation of Nature
Beyond Teleology and Determinism
Determinism and Teleology in the Laws of Nature
The Role of Supervenience in Cosmic Evolution
Physical Necessity and the Teleological Structure of the Universe
The Theory of Regularity and the Necessitarian Conception of the Laws of Nature
Anthropic Principles in Cosmology
The Weak and Strong Version of the Anthropic Principle
Anthropic Principles and the Structural Directionality of the Universe
Who is the Cosmic Designer?
The Cosmic Program and Structural Directionality of the System
Discontinuity and Nonlinearity in Evolution
The Evolution of Thermodynamic Systems
Dissipative Structures and Evolution
Bifurcations in Evolution
Chaos and Evolution
Philosophical Aspects of Non-linear Evolution
Part Three
The God of an Evolving Nature 148
Between Biblical and Scientific Perspectives
The God of the Gaps and of Designs
Philosophical and Existential Aspects of the Immanence of God in Nature
The Variety of Forms of the Immanence of God in the Laws of Nature
God as the Cosmic ?Attractor? of Evolution
The Ontological Interpretation of the Immanence of God in Nature
Pantheism and Panentheism
The Immanent Deus absconditus
The Ontology of Process
The World Existing in God
The Cosmic Kenosis of God
The Logos and Suffering
The Cosmos and the Kenosis of the Immanent God
Co-operation with the God of Kenosis
Part Four
The Prehistory of Rational Man
Reconstructions from Human Prehistory
Man?s Genealogical Bush
Philosophical Assumptions in the Rejection of Evolutionary Anthropogenesis
Sociobiological Explanations of the Essence of Human Culture
The Cultural Context of Sociobiology
The Problem of the Truth of Scientific Theories
The Sociobiological Explanation of the Origin of Mathematics
Human Culture without the Concept of Truth?
The Evolutionary Origin of Morality
The Transcendence of Culture in the Face of Biological Determinants
The Anthropological Meaning of the Truth about Original Sin
The Evolutionary Alternative for Homo sapiens
The Disharmony of Sin
The Perspective of Cosmic Hope
God and the Future of Evolution
Concern for the Ecology of Man
Afterword
Solidarity and Meaning 252