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1 online resource (75 pages) |
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Cambridge elements. Elements in the philosophy of biology, 2515-1126 |
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Cambridge elements. Elements in the philosophy of biology, 2515-1126
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| Contents |
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- The Challenge of Evolution to Religion -- Contents -- 1 Science, Religion, and Evolution -- 1.1 An Asymmetric Tension -- 1.2 Evolution and Religion: Examples from Judaism and Hinduism -- 1.3 Why Does Evolution Challenge Religion? -- 2 Teleology, Divine Purpose, and Divine Design -- 2.1 Chance and Evolution -- 2.2 Intuitive Teleology -- 2.3 How Evolution Challenges Teleology -- 2.3.1 Teleology and Science before Evolutionary Theory -- 2.3.2 Is Teleology Appropriate in Biology in the Light of Evolution? -- 2.3.3 Contingency or Convergence? |
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2.4 Chance, Determinism, and Theism -- 2.4.1 A World That Is Only Apparently Stochastic -- 2.4.2 A Stochastic World Where God Is (at Least Partly) in Control -- 2.4.3 A Stochastic, Unknowable World -- 3 Human Origins: An Evolutionary Challenge to Religion? -- 3.1 Scientific Explanations and Human Origins -- 3.2 Scientific Accounts of Human Evolution -- 3.2.1 Early Scientific Work on Human Evolution -- 3.2.2 Contemporary Work on Human Evolution -- 3.3 Original Sin and the Fall -- 3.4 Early Evolutionary Responses to the Doctrine of Original Sin |
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3.5 The Doctrine of Original Sin in the Light of Paleoanthropology -- 3.5.1 The Historicity of Adam and Eve -- 3.5.2 The Fall As a Historical Event -- 3.5.3 Transmission of Original Sin -- 3.5.4 Original Guilt -- 3.6 Conclusion -- 4 Evolutionary Origins of Religion -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 What Phenomena Does CSR Aim to Explain? -- 4.3 Three Assumptions of CSR -- 4.4 The Genealogy of Religion: An Archaeologically Informed Approach -- 4.4.1 Rituals, Cheap and Costly Signaling -- 4.4.2 Burials and Afterlife Beliefs -- 4.4.3 MCI Agents -- 4.4.4 Shamanism |
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4.5 Debunking Religion: Sensitivity, Safety, or Sinister Genealogy -- 4.6 Concluding Thoughts -- References -- Acknowledgments |
| Summary |
This Element focuses on three challenges of evolution to religion: teleology, human origins, and the evolution of religion itself. First, religious worldviews tend to presuppose a teleological understanding of the origins of living things, but scientists mostly understand evolution as non-teleological. Second, religious and scientific accounts of human origins do not align in a straightforward sense. Third, evolutionary explanations of religion, including religious beliefs and practices, may cast doubt on their justification. We show how these tensions arise and offer potential responses for religion. Individual religions can meet these challenges, if some of their metaphysical assumptions are adapted or abandoned |
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Vendor-supplied metadata |
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Evolution.
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Religion and science.
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Religion and Science
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Evolution
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Religion and science
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Electronic book
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| Author |
De Cruz, Helen, 1978- author.
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| ISBN |
9781108685436 |
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1108685439 |
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