Special creation or derivation?

2012 ◽  
pp. 371-411
Author(s):  
John Fiske
Keyword(s):  
Special Creation

What the Theory of Special Creation is Not

2021 ◽  
pp. 490-495
Author(s):  
Frank Lewis Marsh
Keyword(s):  
Special Creation

Evolution: A Very Short Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Charlesworth ◽  
Deborah Charlesworth
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural Selection ◽  
Evolutionary Biology ◽  
Charles Darwin ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Alfred Russel Wallace ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Living Species ◽  
Evolution By Natural Selection ◽  
Special Creation

Less than 150 years ago, the view that living species were the result of special creation by God was still dominant. The recognition by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace of the mechanism of evolution by natural selection has completely transformed our understanding of the living world, including our own origins. Evolution: A Very Short Introduction provides a summary of the process of evolution by natural selection, highlighting the wide range of evidence, and explains how natural selection gives rise to adaptations and eventually, over many generations, to new species. It introduces the central concepts of the field of evolutionary biology and discusses some of the remaining questions regarding evolutionary processes.

Darwinism, Creationism, and Intelligent Design

1999 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 83-103
Author(s):  
Ronald L. Numbers
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Design ◽  
Biological Evolution ◽  
State Legislatures ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
National Debate ◽  
American Society ◽  
Public Opinion Polls ◽  
Opinion Polls ◽  
Special Creation

The publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's epoch-making book On the Origin of Species touched off a national debate that continues to divide American society. Scarcely a week passes without some evolution-related story appearing in the news: religious leaders declaring the scientific legitimacy of biological evolution, politicians expressing their belief in divine creation, local school boards wrangling over the teaching of origins, professors being ordered to refrain from questioning evolution in the classroom, state legislatures debating whether to fire teachers who present evolution as a fact, biology textbooks carrying disclaimers denying the factual basis of evolution, scientists claiming that they have discovered evidence of Intelligent Design in the natural world, and public-opinion polls showing that nearly half of all Americans believe in the recent special creation of the first humans.

scholarly journals Special Creation or Evolution?

Nature ◽  
1935 ◽  
Vol 135 (3424) ◽  
pp. 987-987 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Special Creation

The Modern Doctrine of Special Creation

2021 ◽  
pp. 481-484
Author(s):  
Robert W. Shinn
Keyword(s):  
Special Creation

Biological adaptation: dependence or independence from environment?

1970 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-102
Author(s):  
Jolanta Koszteyn ◽  
Piotr Lenartowicz
Keyword(s):  
Natural Theology ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Biological Traits ◽  
Great Role ◽  
Biological Adaptation ◽  
Formed Part ◽  
Argument From Design ◽  
Design In Nature ◽  
Living Being ◽  
Special Creation

Since more than hundred years the attempts to explain biological adaptations constitute the main current of evolutionary thinking. In 1901 C. LI. Morgan wrote: „The doctrine of evolution has rendered the study of adaptation of scientific importance. Before that doctrine was formulated, natural adaptations formed part of the mystery of special creation, and played a great role in natural theology through the use of the argument from 'design in nature’". The modem doctrine of biology stresses the importance of the environment in „shaping" the inner properties of every living being. This means an obvious although tacit refusal to assume or recognize any single, integrated agent in the origin of main functional biological traits and in the genesis of new kinds of life. The role ascribed to random mutations, and to „pressures of the environment" is just one aspect of the neodarwinian theory. Another aspect of this doctrine is the widespread conviction that all phenomena of life are a natural, both random and necessary result of interactions between constantly changing material objects.

Between Americanism and Modernism: John Zahm and Theistic Evolution

1987 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 474-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Scott Appleby
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
The Public ◽  
University Of Notre Dame ◽  
The Individual ◽  
American Catholic ◽  
The University ◽  
Remarkable Advance ◽  
Special Creation

“Romanism and Evolution. Remarkable Advance. No Special Creation.” “Father Zahm on the Six Days of Creation.” “Father Zahm on Inspiration.” “Father Zahm Honored with a Private Audience by His Holiness.”1 During the final decade of the nineteenth century religious periodicals and secular newspapers alike chronicled the growing fascination of the American Catholic community with the public debate over the latest theories regarding the evolution of species. One figure in particular, John Augustine Zahm, a Holy Cross priest and professor of chemistry and physics in the University of Notre Dame, captured many of the headlines and captivated Catholic audiences with his sophisticated, clear expositions of the various theories in the post-Darwinian controversies and with his repeated assurances that the idea of evolution, properly understood, posed no obstacle to the faith of the individual Catholic.

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