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Generating life on earth: five looming questions
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2006) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-2025, author; W.B. Eerdmans Publishing, publisher
Generating life on Earth requires creating information, the serendipitous opening up of novel possibility space, driving escalating biodiversity and biocomplexity. Biologists puzzle whether such natural history is contingent, random, probable or inevitable. Humans, uniquely on Earth, achieve highly developed cultures, with great promise and peril. We live on a wonderland Earth and are the apex of these wonders. This opens up possibility space for faith in God.
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The Good Samaritan and his genes
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2004) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-2025, author; W.B. Eerdmans Publishing, publisher
The Good Samaritan helping non-genetically related other does not fit well into a Darwinian framework. Some biologists claim he is constitutionally (=genetically) unable to act for the victim's sake. There must be a self-interested account. The Samaritan, deceived about his motives, is rewarded with reproductively profitable reputation. But such behavior, praised and imitated, jumps genetic lines and there is no differential survival advantage.