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Caring for nature: from fact to value, from respect to reverence

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dc.contributor.authorRolston, Holmes, 1932-, author
dc.contributor.authorJoint Publication Board of Zygon, publisher
dc.coverage.spatialColorado
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T06:59:15Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T06:59:15Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.descriptionThis is an electronic version of an article published in Zygon®: Journal of Religion and Science.
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (pages 300-302).
dc.description.abstractDespite the classical prohibition of moving from fact to value, encounter with the biodiversity and plenitude of being in evolutionary natural history moves us to respect life, even to reverence it. Darwinian accounts are value-laden and necessary for understanding life at the same time that Darwinian theory fails to provide sufficient cause for the historically developing diversity and increasing complexity on Earth. Earth is a providing ground; matter and energy on Earth support life, but distinctive to life is information coded in the genetic molecules that superintends this matter-energy. Life is generated and regenerated in struggle, persists in its perishing. Such life is also a gift; nature is grace. Biologists and theologians join in celebrating and conserving the genesis on Earth, awed in their encounter with this creativity that characterizes our home planet.
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationRolston, Holmes, III, Caring for Nature: From Fact to Value, from Respect to Reverence, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 39, no. 2 (June 2004): 277-302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9744.2004.00574.x
dc.identifier.doihttps://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9744.2004.00574.x
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/36765
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartofEnvironmental Ethics: Anthologies and Journal Articles
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dc.subjectrespect for nature
dc.subjectreverence for nature
dc.subjectgenetic information
dc.subjectvalue distinction
dc.subjectenvironmental conservation
dc.subjectevolutionary natural history
dc.subjectfact distinction
dc.subjectorder versus contingency
dc.subjectnature as grace
dc.titleCaring for nature: from fact to value, from respect to reverence
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