- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Introduction
-
1 Prelude -
2 Prelude -
3 Frog Pond Philosophy -
4 Intelligent Design and the Matter of Matter -
5 Kansas on My Mind -
6 Scientists’ Public Responsibilities -
7 Bottom Lines and the Earth’s Future -
8 Transgenic Animals and Wild Nature -
9 Nature’s Wildness -
10 Wild Turkeys and Old Gobblers -
11 Big Little Snake -
12 Hunting Hennepin’s Windblown Bottom -
13 Leopold’s Wildness -
14 Leopold’s Darwin -
15 What Philosophic Cosmology Can Teach Us -
16 Nature Alive in Spinoza and Whitehead -
17 Neo-Darwinian Cosmologies -
18 Life and the Ethics of Responsibility -
19 The Philosopher’s Poet -
20 Francis of Mepkin - Editors’ Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- References
- Index
- Culture of the Land: A Series in the New Agrarianism
Intelligent Design and the Matter of Matter
Intelligent Design and the Matter of Matter
- Chapter:
- (p.36) 4 Intelligent Design and the Matter of Matter
- Source:
- Frog Pond Philosophy
- Author(s):
Strachan Donnelley
, Ceara Donnelley, Bruce Jennings- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
Reflecting on the debate in American education concerning the scientific validity and teaching of biological evolution, this chapter suggests that speculative philosophical thinking offers a better alternative than either dogmatic theology or dogmatic science. It touches briefly on the work of three thinkers who are discussed at length in later chapters—Alfred North Whitehead, Hans Jonas, and Ernst Mayr.
Keywords: evolution, science education, dogmatic theology, dogmatic science, Alfred North Whitehead, Hans Jonas, Ernst Mayr
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Introduction
-
1 Prelude -
2 Prelude -
3 Frog Pond Philosophy -
4 Intelligent Design and the Matter of Matter -
5 Kansas on My Mind -
6 Scientists’ Public Responsibilities -
7 Bottom Lines and the Earth’s Future -
8 Transgenic Animals and Wild Nature -
9 Nature’s Wildness -
10 Wild Turkeys and Old Gobblers -
11 Big Little Snake -
12 Hunting Hennepin’s Windblown Bottom -
13 Leopold’s Wildness -
14 Leopold’s Darwin -
15 What Philosophic Cosmology Can Teach Us -
16 Nature Alive in Spinoza and Whitehead -
17 Neo-Darwinian Cosmologies -
18 Life and the Ethics of Responsibility -
19 The Philosopher’s Poet -
20 Francis of Mepkin - Editors’ Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- References
- Index
- Culture of the Land: A Series in the New Agrarianism
