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31. Divine Action Topic: Birch, Charles. “Neo-Darwinism, Self-organization,...
applies the mathematics of chaos theory to some aspects of biological evolution without appealing to natural selection. Birch acknowledges that both neo-Darwinism and self-organization draw on strictly mechanistic models, but insists that
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32. Divine Action Topic: Isham, C.J. and J.C. Polkinghorne. “The Debate ove...
of quantum physics and chaos theory encourages a view of nature as open and temporal, thus allowing for both human and divine agency. The problem of the lack of universal simultaneity is lessened since simultaneity is an a posteriori
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33. Divine Action Topic: Murphy, Nancey. “Divine Action in the Natural Orde...
our attention away from chaos and complexity to the arena of quantum physics . In her paper, Murphy argues that the problem of divine action will be solved by nothing less than a revised metaphysical theory of the nature of matter and of
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34. Divine Action Topic: Biblical Studies
Book Series Index Next: Chaos Theory Email link | Printer-friendly | Feedback | Contributed by: CTNS /Vatican Observatory
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35. Divine Action Topic: Gilkey, Langdon. “The God of Nature.”
Science, including chaos theory , provides a picture of reality that combines both order and novelty; the ascending order can well be described as an order of increasing value. Reflection on this scientific picture of reality, along with
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36. Divine Action Topic: Kuppers, Bernd-Olaf. “Understanding Complexity.”
conditions in physical theory. His central claim is that “the complexity of a system or a phenomenon lies in the complexity . . . of its boundary conditions.” Following the analysis of Michael Polanyi , Küppers argues that in a
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37. Divine Action Topic: Wildman, Wesley J. “Evaluating the Teleological Ar...
views about teleonomy and chaos. 2) Given that complex systems are open-ended, he asks whether one specific end can be achieved, and by an intentional agent? 3) Moreover, are high-level characteristics of living systems due to the complex
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38. God, Humanity and the Cosmos Topic: Polkinghorne’s View of Divine Action
is to ask - what, for each theory, is ‘the causal joint’ at which God - as a transcendent , immaterial world cause - interacts particularly with causative factors in the material world? John Polkinghorne is the scientist-theologian
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39. Maddox Bibliography Topic: III. Popular Expositions of Contemporary Natural ...
E. Chaos & Complexity Theory F. Cosmology and Astrophysics G. Geology and Natural History H.
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