Life as Its Own Designer Darwin's Origin and Western Thought /

• Main Authors: Marko<U+00bf>, Anton. (Author), Grygar, Filip. (Author), Hajnal, Ls̀zl.̤ (Author), Kleisner, Karel. (Author), Kratochvl̕, Zdenek. (Author), Neubauer, Zdenek. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
• Series: Biosemiotics, 4
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Science > History.; Biology > Philosophy.; Evolution (Biology).; Humanities.; Life Sciences.; Evolutionary Biology.; Philosophy of Biology.; History of Science.; Interdisciplinary Studies.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9970-0

It has been nearly 150 years since Darwin published On the Origin of Species, and his theory of natural selection still ignites a forest of heated debate between scientific fundamentalists on the one hand and religious fundamentalists on the other. But both sides actually agree more than they disagr...

Table of Contents:

• Preface. Introduction; M. Barbieri
• Part I. Hermeneutic nature of the world. In the quest of the magic strings. 1. Roots of rationality and hermeneutics. 2. Co-creators of the world. 3. Novelty wherefrom? 4. Aut Moses aut Darwin. Creation versus evolution
• Part II. The Region life. 5. The living planet. 6. What is the source of likeness? 7. Creation and its vestiges
• Epilogue: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs or On Nature.