Back to Darwin : the scientific case for Deistic evolution - Corey, Michael Anthony, 1957- (Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, 1993)
[Cont.] Ch. 8. Weak orthogenesis, opportunism, and Lamarckism. Orthogenesis and opportunism ; Why Lamarckism has been so appealing over the years ; Weak orthogenesis and Lamarckism ; Two types of "acquired characters" ; Preadaptation vs. postadaptation and the return to Lamarckism : an experimental verdict ; Genomic stress and extinction ; Protein synthesis and evolution -- Evolution and the new genetics. Homeotic genes : a model of centralized holistic developmental regulation ; "Junk" DNA ; The orthogenetic content of the genome ; A possible relationship between introns and homeotic genes ; Polyploidy ; RNA recoding and rapid evolution ; Holism reductionism, and the origin of orthogenetic information ; The great explanatory power of masking theory ; Speciation problems in light of masking theory ; Parallel evolution and other adaptational mysteries ; God and the existence of a master evolutionary program ; The return of Goldschmidt's "hopeful monster" -- Self-organization and the prospect of directed evolution. The role of evolutionary genes in the Origin of species ; Self-organization and the rise of species ; Orthogenesis and autoevolutionism ; Molecular drive and the process of concerted evolution -- On the role of natural processes in the creation. God is natural ; Can God act acausally? ; The process view ; God isn't limited by time ; Divine delegation -- The reality and necessity of evolution as a cosmic process. The validity of the evolutionary paradigm ; A word of caution ; The role of the developmental process in the human definition ; Why "data disks" cannot be used in the programming of human beings ; Are humans worth creating? ; De re necessity and the deistic evolutionist's position ; The primacy of the developmental process in the grand universal scheme ; The developmental parallelism between cosmic and human evolution ; Human rationality and natural selection ; Extinction and human development ; The importance of man's environmental milieu ; A universe of unbroken wholeness ; The biblical view -- The legitimacy of moderate anthropocentrism -- The morality of evolution. Do animals really suffer? ; Those infamous ichneumons i Evolutionary waste and the prospect of intelligent design -- Deistic evolution and modern philosophical theology. Creation ex nihilo ; Deistic evolution and process thought -- Supernatural naturalism. Theistic naturalism vs. supernatural naturalism ; The more plausible view ; William Paley and the deistic evolutionist's position -- Conclusion. The downfall of Darwinism ; The role of bias in modern evolutionary interpretations ; The anti-empirical effect of neo-Darwinian dogma ; Projection.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-224) and index.
Keywords: Evolution (Biology) -- Religious aspects; Deism