McLeish, Thomas Charles orcid.org/0000-0002-2025-0299 (2020) Evolution as an Unwrapping of the Gift of Freedom. Scientia et Fides. p. 43. ISSN 2353-5636
Abstract
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.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Authors/Creators: |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020, The Author(s). |
Keywords: | Theology of Science,Evolution |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Physics (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 19 Jan 2021 11:40 |
Last Modified: | 08 Feb 2025 00:40 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.12775/SetF.2020.014 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.12775/SetF.2020.014 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:170225 |
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