Science, Religion, and the Human Experience

darwin, design, and the unification of nature 167 Historical Perspectives on the Unification of Nature The subject of nature’s u ...

168 life to produce that last sense of unification—a union of the knower with the known. In characterizing what might be meant b ...

darwin, design, and the unification of nature 169 entific activity and religious sensibility to coexist even if the theology was ...

170 life skeleton perhaps made them anomalous? But no; this was merely a structural inversion adding to the wonderful variety of ...

darwin, design, and the unification of nature 171 Creator had created every living form that could possibly exist. It was simply ...

172 life deny that anything could be known about it. These are elementary distinctions, but they have to feature in any story to ...

darwin, design, and the unification of nature 173 Darwin emphatically did replace that image: once one had been staggered, as he ...

174 life many minds. Add to this Darwin’s realization that one could lead an exemplary moral life as a freethinker or an atheist ...

darwin, design, and the unification of nature 175 any value or at all trustworthy. Would anyone trust in the convictions of a mo ...

176 life so. The manner in which data from biogeography, paleontology, embryology, variation under domestication, and taxonomy w ...

darwin, design, and the unification of nature 177 and advocate in America, Asa Gray, certainly found theological advantages. He ...

178 life entirely accurate, is certainly arresting: “For centuries scientists have been pick- ing holes in the unified world vie ...

darwin, design, and the unification of nature 179 John Brooke,Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives(Cambridge: Cam ...

180 life Isaac Newton, “Accounts Book” (1662), Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. William Paley,Natural Theology(1802), inSelection ...

darwin, design, and the unification of nature 181 Gillian Beer,Darwin’s Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot a ...

182 life Cartwright, Nancy.The Dappled World: A Study of the Boundaries of Science.Cam- bridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999 ...

darwin, design, and the unification of nature 183 InHistory, Humanity and Evolution,edited by James Moore. Cambridge: Cam- bridg ...

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10 Darwinism and Christianity: Must They Remain at War or Is Peace Possible? Michael Ruse Since the time of the Greeks, science ...

186 life will be the final word, but for me at least it is a first word. And every journey starts with a single step. Prologue W ...