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Creative genesis: escalating naturalism and beyond

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dc.contributor.authorRolston, Holmes, 1932-, author
dc.contributor.authorMohr Siebeck, publisher
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T06:51:58Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T06:51:58Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.descriptionLead article in the inaugural issue of this European-based journal on philosophy, theology, and the sciences.
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (pages 33-35).
dc.description.abstractDoes a plausible worldview need some explanations that exceed the natural? Hard naturalisms insist not, but softer, or more open naturalisms find that natural processes can produce ever more complex results - moving from matter to life to mind - in a superb natural history. This invites a religious naturalism, and challenges it. Repeatedly the critical junctures require analysis pressing beyond merely scientific explanations: whether such narrative history is self-explanatory, whether each stage is sufficient for the next when more emerges out of less, what account to give of the creative genesis found in cybernetic genetics, the rise of caring, surprising serendipity, the opening up of new possibility space. Even scientific rationality depends on non-empirical logic, particularly in mathematics. Thoughtful persons are the most remarkable result arising out of natural history. If there is no supernature, at least nature is super. Further still, the intensity of personal experience suggests the Presence of transcending divine Logos, in, with, and under nature.
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationRolston, Holmes, III, Creative Genesis: Escalating Naturalism and Beyond, Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences 1 (2014): 9-35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1628/219728314X13946985796871
dc.identifier.doihttps://dx.doi.org/10.1628/219728314X13946985796871
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/89526
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartofScience & Religion: Anthologies and Journal Articles
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dc.subjecthard naturalism
dc.subjectsoft naturalism
dc.subjectnatural history
dc.subjectgenesis
dc.subjectemergence
dc.subjectorigin of life
dc.subjectgenetics
dc.subjectcybernetics
dc.subjectcaring
dc.subjectserendipity
dc.subjectpossibility space
dc.subjectnature
dc.subjectsupernature
dc.subjectnaturalism
dc.subjectLogos
dc.titleCreative genesis: escalating naturalism and beyond
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