TY  - BOOK
AU  - Corey,Michael Anthony
TI  - Back to Darwin: the scientific case for Deistic evolution 
SN  - 0819193062 (alk. paper)
AV  - BL 263 .C774 1993
PY  - 1993///
CY  - Lanham, Md.
PB  - University Press of America
KW  - Evolution (Biology)
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Deism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-224) and index; Preface : creation vs. evolution : the modern debate --; The deistic roots of modern Darwinism; A theological defense of deism; Deism and natural theology; Natural theology and the validity of objective reasoning; A new level of debate --; Spontaneous generation; The implausibility of non-theistic biogenesis; The "chicken and egg" paradox; Why natural selection cannot account for the origin of life; The inherent limitations of trial and error problem-solving; Was there enough time for life to form?; Life from life; Self-organization and biogenesis; Positivistic science and the God of deism; Antichaos and the Origin of species; The second law of thermodynamics --; Mutations; Three types of "mutations"; The drosophilia connection; The limits of artificial breeding; Coordinated mutations; Schrodinger and the quantum nature of mutational change; Microevolution vs. macroevolution; Is chance the creator of us all?; Information theory; Genetic information and the role of change; A call for reconciliation --; Species and speciation; The discontinuity of nature; Typology and essentialism; The possibility of intermediate forms on the way to the Avian lung; An explanation for the interrelatedness of nature; God used adaptive radiation to create closely-related species; Vestigial organs; Marine mammals and the problem of adaptation; A possible mechanism for species transmutation --; Natural selection; The reality of natural selection; Altruism in the natural world; Natural selection and the diversification of species; Natural selection and random variations of form; Can natural selection create coherent adaptations out of random variations?; Popular examples of evolution in action; Natural selection unable to account for explosive radiations; Natural selection cannot account for the rise of man; Hyper-selectionism and the human voice; Natural selection as a tautology; A failure to evolve; Punctuated equilibria; Natural selection and behavior; The origin of adaptations; Natural selection and the Mathusian principle of competition for limited resources; The relationship between explanatory closure and biological complexity; The fallacy of using natural selection as a causal explanation for life's origin; Historical antecedents; The nature and origin of the selective process; Could natural selection have formed the eye? --; God and the nature of perfection; The Irish elk; The nature of perfection; Could God have done better?; More on the true nature of perfection; The democracy of extinction; On the compatibility between the natural and the supernatural --; The fossil record; The nature of the paleontological evidence; Punctuated equilibria and the Cambrian explosion; Transformed cladism; Homologous resemblances; Convergent evolution; Weak orthogenesis as a compromise position; [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
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