We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
ERNAN MCMULLIN ON CONTINGENCY, COSMIC PURPOSE, AND THE ATEMPORALITY OF THE CREATOR.
- Authors
Stoeger, William R.
- Abstract
This article reviews, and offers supportive reflections on, the main points of Ernan McMullin's provocative 1998 article, "Cosmic Purpose and the Contingency of Human Evolution," reprinted in this issue of Zygon. In it he addresses the important science-theology issue of how the Creator's purpose and intention to assure the emergence of human beings is consonant with the radical contingency of the evolutionary process. After discussing cosmic and biological evolution and critically summarizing recent solutions to this question by Keith Ward, John Polkinghorne, Arthur Peacocke, Alvin Plantinga, and others, who presuppose in different ways that God is subject to time, McMullin compellingly argues for the traditional position, that God is unconditioned by time, and this enables God to work purposefully through contingency, randomness, and chance just as easily as through law-like regularity.
- Subjects
HUMAN evolution; MCMULLIN, Ernan; CONTINGENCY (Philosophy); METAPHYSICAL cosmology; RELIGION &; science
- Publication
Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science, 2013, Vol 48, Issue 2, p329
- ISSN
0591-2385
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/zygo.12006