The central issue in science and religion today is whether nature in
its evolution has any purpose or ultimate meaning (Haught, 7).
The central issue in science and religion today is whether nature in
its evolution has any purpose or ultimate meaning.
Darwin and Design Does
Evolution Have a Purpose?.
Not exact matches
This is why atheists that
have extrapolated the facts of biological
evolution into a world view of
purpose for existence (that is unsupported by the facts) clearly
have a false god.
There's a
purpose, scientist may not know right now, but it
has nothing to do with
Evolution.
If there is indeed a soul or
purpose for man that is greater than self (animal)
evolution would point towards something greater not something less than or limited to the
purpose of an ape or a plant.
I
have simply related two indisputable facts:
Evolution happened (or so we will presume, for
purposes of this analysis), and our present biosphere is the result.
According to many biologists today this chemical explanation of life and
evolution has no need to resort to the idea of
purpose or to what Aristotle termed final cause.
If
evolution is the only thing providing any kind of
purpose or direction to the development of our capacities, then our ability to reason
has only been placed in us because it helps us to survive and multiply.
The consortium describes the Templeton Foundation as
having «made up to $ 3 million available for research grants to stimulate and sponsor new research insights directly pertinent to the «great debate» over
purpose in the context of the emergence of increasing biological complexity, ranging from the biochemical level to the
evolution of life andthe emergence of society and culture.»
What view of
evolution can we
have, and how does it fit in with Christian teaching on
purpose and destiny?
Whether or not God
has employed an
evolution of millions of years for the
purpose of creating man is the critical concern of the natural scientist; it is not a critical question for faith.
Finding
purpose pervasive throughout the individual entities of the universe, we ask what permanent value
has the whole of the
evolution of the cosmos from cosmic
evolution through biological
evolution to social
evolution.
regardless of what is the issue of the bible, the fact that it influences the lives of billions of people for meliniums or thousands of years, that magnitude of effect is beyond doubt that it is the will of God.He guided the events in history for a
purpose, a process of
evolution that will be the foundation of another cyclic event for the future of humanity.this
has been going on for 13.7 billion years, and this will go on for billons of years more.Will you be part of history.?
Too much trust in an ultimate cosmic
purpose might diminish our spontaneous respect for the delicacy of living forms to which
evolution has unconsciously and painfully given birth on our insignificant planet.
Most things created serve or
have served a
purpose this is true in
evolution isn't it?
Evolution in a pure Darwinian world
has no goal or
purpose: the exclusive driving force is random mutations sorted out by natural selection from one generation to the next.»
Holloway's reflections on the notion of the «relative substance» make precisely the same point: material things are not self - sufficient entities, complete in themselves; they
have an intrinsic limitation, inherent in them because they are a moment in the history of
evolution from which they receive their place and
purpose.
The question is instead whether evolutionary theory
has been correct in excluding animal
purpose altogether from the explanation of biological
evolution generally.
Evolution may
have organized the universe, but our life is nothing but CHAOS, with NO guide line, NO
purpose whatsoever, except the one that we give ourselves as members of a society, as we
have to live together which is engraved in our nature, thus making us social animals, perhaps, and necessiciated for the continuity of the our species.
But briefly, it is this: «orthodox» scientific uneasiness about the role of
purpose or final causation in planetary
evolution has its grounds partly in the fact that over the centuries most people who
have tried to describe the role of
purpose on Earth haven't known «what» they were talking about.
Dr. Austin, the «scientist» in question, is a young earth creationist who went to the site with the stated
purpose of finding «proof against
evolution,» gathered material which was a mix of newly formed rock and ancient rock which
had been ejected from the mountain, dated them with imprecise methods, and then skewed the results, as thousands of actual scientists
have already reported.
The only instances in which it
has relied on the secular
purpose requirement of Lemon to invalidate a school policy
have been with regard to the posting of the Ten Commandments and the teaching of
evolution in public schools.
15 Teilhard, for his part, suggests that when
evolution is viewed as the process in which the consciousness within matter emerges and is transmuted into Spirit, natural history is seen to
have a different direction — or rather, since we are on the level of the noosphere, a different
purpose.
Now, a new study presented at the
Evolution of Language meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, last month shows that young speakers of one of these languages — Israeli Sign Language —
have come up with richer, more grammatically complex ways of signing that use ever more parts of the body for different
purposes.
Teal Burrell discusses human
purposes and goals — which we clearly
have from biological
evolution (28 January, p 30).
Yes, I know, neo-Darwininists don't believe that
evolution either
has or serves a
purpose.
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Their
purpose has gone through quite the
evolution.
Throughout Katmai's 97 years, several presidents
have influenced Katmai's
purpose and
evolution.
Throughout Katmai's 97 years, several presidents
have influenced Katmai's
purpose and the
evolution.
Doubt is inherently human and it
has a useful
purpose, but that doesn't mean it's OK to keep questioning climate change,
evolution, and the power of vaccines.
Except in perturbative contexts (such as the neighbourhood of a fixed point or invariant torus), the long - time
evolution of a dynamical system for deterministic data is still largely only controllable by the classical tools of exact solutions, conservation laws and monotonicity formulae; a discovery of a new and effective tool for this
purpose would be a major breakthrough.
It is evident that a climate model
would be useful for any civil strategic
purpose only if it is proved capable of predicting the climate
evolution at least at a decadal / multidecadal scale.
I
have great faith in a higher
purpose behind what reveals itself in the physical universe and I see no reason for any of it to conflict with my belief in
evolution or any other well - vetted «scientific» theories.