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Tag Archives: Simon Conway Morris
An Engineer or a Gardener?
The final three scientists interviewed in Tim Stafford’s book The Adam Quest are British. Despite the conservative evangelical and fundamentalist stereotype of English Christianity as theologically bankrupt, there is an environment that allows sophisticated and serious Christian thinking to flourish. … Continue reading
Posted in Evolution, Science and Faith
Tagged Denis Alexander, John C. Polkinghorne, Simon Conway Morris, Tim Stafford
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A World From Dust
In popular imagination, even the imagination of of many trained in technical fields, evolution is a messy, chaotic, highly contingent and random process. Mark Whorton in Peril in Paradise comments that while he finds the evidence for an old earth … Continue reading
Posted in Evolution, Science, Uncategorized
Tagged Ard Louis, Ben McFarland, Simon Conway Morris
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Is Evolution a Random Process?
A question that comes up quite frequently in discussions of evolution and Christian faith deals with the apparently purposeless randomness of the evolutionary process. One of the most famous images is the tape of time given by Stephen Jay Gould. … Continue reading
Posted in Evolution
Tagged Ard Louis, Simon Conway Morris
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Evolution’s Place? 6
Chapter 11 of Simon Conway Morris’s book Life’s Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe is titled Toward a Theology of Evolution, and to this we now turn. Conway Morris suggests that the view – common among many educated westerners … Continue reading
Evolution’s Place? 5
Several weeks ago we began a series looking at Simon Conway Morris’s book Life’s Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe. After a brief hiatus I will come back to this book with two final posts; today a discussion of … Continue reading
Evolution’s Place? 3
Chapters 2-5 of Simon Conway Morris’s book Life’s Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe ramble through a description of the rather tight constraints required for the formation of life and the lack of current understanding as to how life … Continue reading
Evolution’s Place? 2
Today I start in earnest a series focused on Simon Conway Morris’s book Life’s Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe. This book is an exploration of the evidence for evolutionary convergence – the idea that there are islands of … Continue reading
Evolution’s Place? 1
What place can evolution have in a world created by a personal God? The Darwinian paradigm of random mutation and natural selection seems to suggest that the development of life in the universe and sentient beings on our planet is … Continue reading
Posted in Evolution, The Fossil Record
Tagged Simon Conway Morris
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