Blind Evolution?

The Nature of Humanity and the Origin of Life

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

459 kr

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A challenging critique of contemporary Neo-Darwinism, advocating a new balance between science and spirituality in understanding creation.In Blind Evolution?: The Nature of Humanity and the Origin of Life, Professor David Frost challenges the dominant worldview derived from Darwin's evolutionary theories and perpetuated in Richard Dawkins's atheistic propaganda for Neo-Darwinism: that our universe has 'at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference'.Frost deploys recent findings from a range of scientific studies that shake Neo-Darwinism to its foundation. Citing entertaining examples, from the inner workings of a single cell to the animal kingdom at large, from elephants and giraffes to the Japanese pufferfish, Frost maintains that Darwinian premises are wholly inadequate to engage with life or to provide a framework for our experiences of joy and sorrow, the problem of suffering, and the stark realities of good and evil.Reflecting on the nature of existence, Frost points to a mode of human understanding parallel to scientific enquiry through the path of 'vision' accessed via the nous (or spiritual intellect). He argues that 'vision' is as much essential to our understanding of creation as is scientific enquiry - reality is best approached through a complementary partnership of both.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-05-27
Mått155 x 233 x 22 mm
Vikt172 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieJames Clarke
Antal sidor176
FörlagBoydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN9780227177112

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Professor David Frost has lectured and broadcast on literature and theology in two hemispheres and in seven countries. He was a lecturer at the University of Cambridge for ten years before taking up a Chair of English Literature in the University of Newcastle, NSW, where he remained for twenty-one years. He later returned to Cambridge and was for eleven years Honorary Principal and Administrator of the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies. As Director of THE WAY, he organised what became an internationally used course for instruction in Orthodox Christianity, modelled on the famed Alpha Course.

List of IllustrationsPreface1. The Answers of the Book of Job and the Experience of Mankind2. Has Modern Science Proved there Is No Creator God?3. The Assault of Modern Atheism on Religious Faith4. Neo-Darwinism versus Intelligent Design5. The Prestige of Scientific Knowledge and Other Approaches to Truth6. The Evidence for a New Species, Homo Theos, the 'God-Man', Unifies Our Understanding7. Science Must Partner 'Nous': A Necessary Marriage8. 'To See Things as They Are': The Necessary Concurrence of Vision with Evidence9. The Witness of the Natural Sciences10. 'To See Things as They Are': When Evidence Confirms Vision11. 'To See Things as They Are': Mr Toad on 'The Ship of Fools'12. What Is Truth?Conclusion: 'To See Things as They Are': The Consequences of ObservationEpilogueBibliography

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