Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Does life on earth have a purpose?
- 2 Creationism, Intelligent Design, and Augustine's idea of time
- 3 Darwin, neo-Darwinism, and the naturalistic continuity claim
- 4 Miller's pre-biotic broth and the premises of evolutionism
- 5 A cold shudder along Darwin's back
- 6 The emergence theory of Morgan and Alexander
- 7 Luctor et emergo: what is emergent evolution?
- 8 Toward a general theory of emergent evolution
- 9 Hominization and the philosophy of mind
- 10 Augustinian faith and evolutionary science
- 11 The organism is a whole. The world is a habitat
- 12 The slumbering temptation of essentialism
- 13 Questions surrounding the emergence process
- 14 Enkapsis in nature. Is there an Omega point?
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Does life on earth have a purpose?
- 2 Creationism, Intelligent Design, and Augustine's idea of time
- 3 Darwin, neo-Darwinism, and the naturalistic continuity claim
- 4 Miller's pre-biotic broth and the premises of evolutionism
- 5 A cold shudder along Darwin's back
- 6 The emergence theory of Morgan and Alexander
- 7 Luctor et emergo: what is emergent evolution?
- 8 Toward a general theory of emergent evolution
- 9 Hominization and the philosophy of mind
- 10 Augustinian faith and evolutionary science
- 11 The organism is a whole. The world is a habitat
- 12 The slumbering temptation of essentialism
- 13 Questions surrounding the emergence process
- 14 Enkapsis in nature. Is there an Omega point?
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Purpose in the Living World?Creation and Emergent Evolution, pp. 293 - 303Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008
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