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experience 'bottom-up causation', or 'top-down/whole-part influence', we could produce a graph showing the distribution of causal efficacy as it varies across the components and joints that make up the system. I like the term 'system

and intelligent causation. The sequel to The Design Inference appeared with Rowman & Littlefield in 2002 and critiques Darwinian and other naturalistic accounts of evolution. It is titled No Free Lunch: Why Specified

for the idea of top-down causation. Theologically, the potentiality of the universe is held in the mind of God. Divine potentiality becomes concrete reality in the universe by means of persuasive love. God interacts with individual entities in

is room for genuine mental causation - not all causes of human behavior are purely neuronal causes.Clayton’s account of supervenience leads to an emergentist-monist account of the person: “monist” because, while there are many

or “whole-part” causation. Drees, however, rejects the attempt to extrapolate from the context of nature as environment to the concept of God as the world’s environment. Given the various problems with attempts to envisage

of dealing with ultimate causation without being incompatible with science. Ellis provides a Christian setting for the design argument by describing the “essential core” of New Testament teaching based on Temple’s theology and

rules out unique mechanical causation from past events and is commensurate with process theology’s insistence on the power of the future and on God as the ultimate source of all possibilities. Haught returns then to his initial question:

is one of non-temporal causation. Whether there was a first moment is irrelevant to the doctrine. Ward admits that this view of God is congruent with the block universe interpretation of special relativity , but he is highly critical of

views of matter and causation from ancient to modern philosophy. The historical survey is intended to put in question current metaphysical assumptions about the nature of matter and of natural causes, as a prelude to considering the