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    Genes, genesis and God: values and their origins in natural and human history - review
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 2000) Ferré, Frederick, author; Springer, publisher
    Book review of Holmes Rolston's Genes, Genesis and God. Lord Gifford, whose bequest founded the famous Gifford Lectures more than a century ago with a mandate to advance 'natural theology', would be proud of this book. It constitutes the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh, 1997-1998; and, unlike many other recent Giffords, it really does fulfill the terms of the original bequest. This fulfillment is not expressed in the traditional language that Lord Gifford would have recognized (though underneath there are still classical arguments at work), but in this volume Holmes Rolston III brings together the best of current information about nature, especially the history of this planet, with the persistent depths of classical concerns about the character of the ultimate nature of things.
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    Genes, genesis and God: values and their origins in natural and human history - review
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 2000) Bryant, John A., author; Paternoster Press, publisher
    Book review of Holmes Rolston's Genes, Genesis and God. The book is based on the author's Gifford Lectures given at the University of Edinburgh, Nov. 1997. Dr. Rolston says the phenomena of religion and ethics cannot be reduced to the phenomena of biology. The book deals with genetic values, genetic identity, culture, science, ethics, biology and religion.
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    Gifford Lecture 10: Genes, genesis and God
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 1997-10) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speaker
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    Gifford Lecture 1: Genetic creativity: diversity and complexity in natural history
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 1997-11-10) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speaker
    Central to the contemporary Darwinian view is emerging diversity and complexity. Genes are critical in this historic composition. In physics and chemistry, there is matter and energy, but in biology there is proactive information. Scientists divide over whether such evolution is contingent or directional. Elements of trial and error are incorporated in a searching generative process, analogous to genetic algorithms in computing.