Creator God, Evolving World

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155 index Aquinas, Thomas, 16, 18, 41, 53, 87, 133n26 on contingency and divine providence, 45, 137n8 Summa contra Gentiles (SCG) and, 45 adaptation(s), 59, 60, 61, 79, 81, 104, 106, 107, 136n35 brain/body size in hominin evolution and, 104–105 (table 6.1), 145n10 agnosticism, Paul Davies and, 15–16 AIDS, 112, 118 antibiotics, 117, 118 argument from design, 11, 54, 133n28. See also God; teleology meaning of, 6 Richard Dawkins and, 17 Aristotle, 13, 42, 45 vs. Galilean concepts of cosmos, 14 artificial selection, 60 atheism, 47, 56, 59 Deism and modern rise of, 131n7 Richard Dawkins and, 15–17 vs. theists on special chance of creation , 20 atom(ic), 66, 69, 71, 73, 85 Augustine, 8, 52, 53, 132n8; 138n23; 143nn12, 13; 144nn14, 15 evil and, 93, 97 authority systems, clash of scientific and religious, 14 Ayala, Francisco, 35, 37 intelligent design and, 136nn31, 32, 38–41 Baer, Karl Ernst von, 59–60 “Becoming Human” (NOVA documentary ), 103 Bible, 8, 41, 125 fundamentalist interpretation of, 17 biblical, 94 bipedalism, in hominin evolution, 105 Big Bang, 21, 84, 86, 127, 143n4 blind watchmaker, 11, 81, 140n27 Bohm, David, 10, 132n14 Boltzman, Ludwig, 64 Bracken, Joseph, 43–44, 48, 137nn4–6, 13 Brahe, Tycho, 3 brain body size in hominin evolution and, 104–105, 106 (table 6.1), 109– 110, 145n10 evolution of, 107 British, 102 colonialism, 123 Empire, 101 156 buttercups (statistical analysis of distribution ), 25 (table 2.1), 25–26, 134nn10–11 Byrne, Patrick, 31, 38, 134n17; 135n21; 136n42; 141n45 Cambrian explosion, 78, 79, 142n60 Cape Verde Islands, 60 Carroll, Sean, 75, 78, 142nn55, 58–61; 144nn2–4; 145nn7, 8, 12, 13 Casimir effect, 53 Catholic Church conflict with Galileo, 1, 3–4, 14 and metaphysics and morality, 13 Catholic Encyclopedia, 8 causality, 34, 38, 116, 121, 123, 124. See also chance chance, 35, 57, 59, 68, 74, 104, 107, 110, 113, 120, 124, 126, 136n39. See also contingency emergence of creation and, 19–20 divine providence and, 45, 55–56 natural selection and, 36–39, 65 necessity and, 39, 43, 57, 121, 124 “sheer,” 20, 24, 31, 36, 39 Chase, Alston, 116, 146n27 Christian, 7, 8, 10, 18, 43, 45, 56, 100, 108, 128–29 belief and Greek philosophy, 13–14 tradition and natural theology, 133n29 classical science, 124, 126–27. See also modern science; science decision making and, 113 intersection of statistical science and, 24–25, 31–32 meaning of term, 21–22 and statistical science differentiated, 22–24, 39 climate change, 105–106, 107 “collectively autocatalytic systems” (Kaufmann), 76 complexity, 77, 79, 81, 87 chance operations and, 136nn39, 40 emergence of, 142n60 increase seen as higher form of life, 135n28 orienting evolutionary purpose, 58 theory, meaning of term, 75 complex systems, meaning of, 75. See also complexity conditioning. See also judgment environmental, 108 schemes of recurrence and, 33, 73, 135n22; 141n37; 146n25 social, 95 Confessions (Augustine), 93, 143nn12, 13; 144nn14, 15 conscience, 96, 144n19 consciousness, 71 “sensitive consciousness” enabled by schemes of recurrence, 34, 39 contingency/-ies, 57, 64, 80, 86, 116, 143n5. See also chance divine providence and, 45, 55, 137nn8, 10 necessity and contingent secondary causes, 47 necessity and, in conceptualization of God, 42–45 contingent action. See contingency convergence, 6, 74 evolutionary, 80–81 difference between co-evolution and, 142n66 Conway Morris, Simon, 75, 79–80, 142nn63, 65, 67, 68 Stuart Kaufmann and, 142n67 index index 157 Copernicus, Nicholas, 3, 66 cosmologist, 15, 20, 85, 86 cosmology, 3, 13, 125, 126, 143nn2, 3, 137n7. See also eschatology Council of Chalcedon, 129 creation, 20, 46, 52, 53, 54, 86, 91, 94, 98, 100, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128. See also creator; creation science; God; special creation Big Bang and, 143n4 as “best of all possible worlds,” 143n8 chance and, 20, 55 contingent and wholly dependent on God, in Thomas Aquinas, 45, 47–48 dynamic, as challenge to deterministic teleology, 58–59 fundamentalist interpretation of Genesis account, 2, 6, 16–17, 88 God’s teleological relationship to, 11–13, 58, 83, 84–85 providence and the goodness of, 87–90, 95, 101, 129–30 providence, prayer and, 90–91 reconceptualization of God’s relationship to, 39, 41–44 relationship between God, evolution and, 2, 9, 15, 17, 19 vs. evolutionary theories, 11, 57, 80 creation science, 17, 46 Creator, 9, 13, 47, 58, 59, 104, 121, 122, 124, 127 Cuvier, George, 59, 139n5 Daphne Major, study of finches in...