This collection of twenty-two research papers explores the creative
interaction between evolutionary and molecular biology, philosophy,
and theology. It is the result of the third of five international
research conferences co-sponsored by the Vatican Observatory, Rome
and the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, Berkeley. The
over arching goal of these conferences is to support the engagement
of constructive theology with the natural sciences and to
investigate the philosophical and theological elements in ongoing
theoretical research in the natural sciences. Contents: An
extensive introduction (Robert John Russell), two recent statements
on evolution and Christian faith by Pope John Paul II, and an
interpretive essay by the Director of the Observatory, George V.
Coyne, S. J., Section One: Scientific Background-evolutionary and
molecular biology (Francisco J Ayala and Camilo J. Cela-Conde) and
the possibility of the evolution of extraterrestrial life (Julian
Chela-Flores); Section Two: Evolution and Divine
Action-philosophical analyses of teleology in light of biology from
the perspectives of a scientist (Francisco J. Ayala) and a
theologian (Wesley J. Wildman), assessments of the evidence for
teleology by scientists (Paul Davies and William R. Stroeger, S.
J.), and theological arguments on divine action and evolution
focusing on special providence (Robert John Russell) and on process
theism (Charles Birch); Section Three: Religious Interpretations of
Biological Themes-critique of evolution-based arguments for atheism
and of science-based religion (George F. R. Ellis), Darwin's
relation to natural theology and a feminist perspective on
metaphors in evolution (Anne M. Clifford), evolution from a
naturalist perspective and the challenge to religion (Willem B.
Drees), bicultural evolution and the created co-creator (Philip
Hefner), continuity and emergence, propensities, pain, and death in
light of evolution, and constructive Christology from and Anglican
perspective (Arthur Peacocke), original sin and saving grace in
light of evolution from a trinitarian perspective (Denis Edwards),
divine kenosis and the power of the future from an evolutionary and
process perspective (John F. Haught), and a comparison of models of
God in light of evolution (Ian G. Barbour); Section Four: Biology,
Ethics, and the Problem of Evil-an evolutionary model of biological
and moral altruism (Camilo J. Cela-Conde and Gisele Marty),
supervenience as a response to the reduction of Morality to biology
(Nancey Murphy), ethical and theological issues raised by gem-line
genetic therapy (Ted Peters), and the problems of divine action and
theodicy in light of human sinfulness and suffering in nature
(Thomas F. Tracy). This series of conferences builds on the initial
1987 Vatican Observatory conference and its resulting publication,
Physics, Philosophy and Theology: A Common Quest for Understanding
(1988), and on the previous Jointly-sponsored conferences and their
publications, Quantum Cosmology and the Laws of Nature (1993) and
Chaos and Complexity (1995). Future conferences will focus on
scientific topics including the neuroscience's, quantum physics,
and quantum field theory.
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