Description

• Title:
  Evolution as an Unwrapping of the Gift of Freedom
• Creator:
  McLeish, Tom
• Description:
  Extending the approach to a ‘theology of science’ developed in Faith and Wisdom in Science (McLeish 2014), I expand its theme of the tension between chaos and emergent order, within the arc of the Biblical story of creation, towards a theology of evolutionary science. In addition to the material in Job, the book of Wisdomprovides a remarkable account of transmutation of species, within a recapitulation of the Exodus theme, that I juxtapose with a modern genotype-phenotype theory of evolutionary dynamics, exploiting analogies with statistical mechanics. The dual and connected structures of microscopic and macroscopic provide a locus for the Joban tensions of chaos and emergent order, and provide an interpretative narrative for the emergent directionality of evolution, and a theology that situates within a creation of freedom to explore the potential of the created order.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2020 Scientia et Fides;
  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2020.10.30
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  comparative narratology
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Scientia et Fides; Vol. 8 No. 2 (2020): Philosophical and Theological Aspects of Evolution; 43-64;
  Scientia et Fides; Tom 8 Nr 2 (2020): Philosophical and Theological Aspects of Evolution; 43-64;
  2353-5636;
  2300-7648
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/SetF/article/view/SetF.2020.014/26899
• Subject:
  theistic evolution;
  Wisdom;
  genotype-phenotype map;
  statistical mechanics;
  emergence;
  theodicy
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/SetF/article/view/SetF.2020.014
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  other