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pages |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-224) and index. |
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Preface : creation vs. evolution : the modern debate -- The deistic roots of modern Darwinism. A theological defense of deism ; Deism and natural theology ; Natural theology and the validity of objective reasoning ; A new level of debate -- Spontaneous generation. The implausibility of non-theistic biogenesis ; The "chicken and egg" paradox ; Why natural selection cannot account for the origin of life ; The inherent limitations of trial and error problem-solving ; Was there enough time for life to form? ; Life from life ; Self-organization and biogenesis ; Positivistic science and the God of deism ; Antichaos and the Origin of species ; The second law of thermodynamics -- Mutations. Three types of "mutations" ; The drosophilia connection ; The limits of artificial breeding ; Coordinated mutations ; Schrodinger and the quantum nature of mutational change ; Microevolution vs. macroevolution ; Is chance the creator of us all? ; Information theory ; Genetic information and the role of change ; A call for reconciliation -- Species and speciation. The discontinuity of nature ; Typology and essentialism ; The possibility of intermediate forms on the way to the Avian lung ; An explanation for the interrelatedness of nature ; God used adaptive radiation to create closely-related species ; Vestigial organs ; Marine mammals and the problem of adaptation ; A possible mechanism for species transmutation -- Natural selection. The reality of natural selection ; Altruism in the natural world ; Natural selection and the diversification of species ; Natural selection and random variations of form ; Can natural selection create coherent adaptations out of random variations? ; Popular examples of evolution in action ; Natural selection unable to account for explosive radiations ; Natural selection cannot account for the rise of man ; Hyper-selectionism and the human voice ; Natural selection as a tautology ; A failure to evolve ; Punctuated equilibria ; Natural selection and behavior ; The origin of adaptations ; Natural selection and the Mathusian principle of competition for limited resources ; The relationship between explanatory closure and biological complexity ; The fallacy of using natural selection as a causal explanation for life's origin ; Historical antecedents ; The nature and origin of the selective process ; Could natural selection have formed the eye? -- God and the nature of perfection. The Irish elk ; The nature of perfection ; Could God have done better? ; More on the true nature of perfection ; The democracy of extinction ; On the compatibility between the natural and the supernatural -- The fossil record. The nature of the paleontological evidence ; Punctuated equilibria and the Cambrian explosion ; Transformed cladism ; Homologous resemblances ; Convergent evolution ; Weak orthogenesis as a compromise position. |
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[Cont.] Ch. 8. Weak orthogenesis, opportunism, and Lamarckism. Orthogenesis and opportunism ; Why Lamarckism has been so appealing over the years ; Weak orthogenesis and Lamarckism ; Two types of "acquired characters" ; Preadaptation vs. postadaptation and the return to Lamarckism : an experimental verdict ; Genomic stress and extinction ; Protein synthesis and evolution -- Evolution and the new genetics. Homeotic genes : a model of centralized holistic developmental regulation ; "Junk" DNA ; The orthogenetic content of the genome ; A possible relationship between introns and homeotic genes ; Polyploidy ; RNA recoding and rapid evolution ; Holism reductionism, and the origin of orthogenetic information ; The great explanatory power of masking theory ; Speciation problems in light of masking theory ; Parallel evolution and other adaptational mysteries ; God and the existence of a master evolutionary program ; The return of Goldschmidt's "hopeful monster" -- Self-organization and the prospect of directed evolution. The role of evolutionary genes in the Origin of species ; Self-organization and the rise of species ; Orthogenesis and autoevolutionism ; Molecular drive and the process of concerted evolution -- On the role of natural processes in the creation. God is natural ; Can God act acausally? ; The process view ; God isn't limited by time ; Divine delegation -- The reality and necessity of evolution as a cosmic process. The validity of the evolutionary paradigm ; A word of caution ; The role of the developmental process in the human definition ; Why "data disks" cannot be used in the programming of human beings ; Are humans worth creating? ; De re necessity and the deistic evolutionist's position ; The primacy of the developmental process in the grand universal scheme ; The developmental parallelism between cosmic and human evolution ; Human rationality and natural selection ; Extinction and human development ; The importance of man's environmental milieu ; A universe of unbroken wholeness ; The biblical view -- The legitimacy of moderate anthropocentrism -- The morality of evolution. Do animals really suffer? ; Those infamous ichneumons i Evolutionary waste and the prospect of intelligent design -- Deistic evolution and modern philosophical theology. Creation ex nihilo ; Deistic evolution and process thought -- Supernatural naturalism. Theistic naturalism vs. supernatural naturalism ; The more plausible view ; William Paley and the deistic evolutionist's position -- Conclusion. The downfall of Darwinism ; The role of bias in modern evolutionary interpretations ; The anti-empirical effect of neo-Darwinian dogma ; Projection. |
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Evolution (Biology) -- Religious aspects.
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Deism.
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Deism. (OCoLC)fst00889874
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Evolution (Biology) -- Religious aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00917315
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Deistic evolution.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Corey, Michael Anthony, 1957- Back to Darwin. Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, ©1993 (OCoLC)647007779 |
| ISBN |
0819193062 (alk. paper) |
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9780819193063 (alk. paper) |
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0819193070 (paper ; alk. paper) |
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9780819193070 (paper ; alk. paper) |
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