Pub Date : 2023-09-11DOI: 10.1080/14746700.2023.2255962
Zachariah S. Motts
Published in Theology and Science (Ahead of Print, 2023)
发表于《神学与科学》(2023年印刷前)
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Pub Date : 2023-09-10DOI: 10.1080/14746700.2023.2255950
E. V. R. Kojonen
ABSTRACT
Inter-religious discussion on science and religion can help focus on neglected theological and metaphysical aspects. Here, I consider two examples of this: (1) the effect of models of divine action on design arguments, and (2) the effect of theological hermeneutics on the creation-evolution debate. Regarding design arguments, I analyze and respond to Shoaib A. Malik’s four Ashʿari criticisms of the design argument. Regarding theological hermeneutics, and building on Malik’s analysis, I use the debates over the Age of the Earth and the Flood as a test case of the differences between Christian and Muslim ways of interpretation.
摘要宗教间对科学和宗教的讨论有助于关注被忽视的神学和形而上学方面。在这里，我考虑两个例子:(1)神的行为模型对设计论证的影响，(2)神学解释学对创造-进化辩论的影响。关于设计论证，我分析并回应了Shoaib A. Malik对设计论证的四个Ash - al批评。关于神学解释学，在Malik分析的基础上，我用关于地球时代和洪水的争论作为基督教和穆斯林解释方式差异的测试案例。
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Pub Date : 2023-07-30DOI: 10.1080/14746700.2023.2230438
B. Wollenberg
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14746700.2023.2230432
J. Bracken
ABSTRACT Alfred North Whitehead years ago proposed an organismic approach to physical reality in which the constituent parts of physical entities co-constitute the governing structure of the entity even as the structure constrains the ongoing activity of the constituent parts. In this article, the author proposes that such an organismic approach to reality would be strengthened if one employs a systems-oriented methodology to a Trinitarian understanding of the God-world relationship. The structure of the divine life-system would influence the independent mode of operation of the cosmic process and the mode of operation of the cosmic process would affect the divine persons.
摘要Alfred North Whitehead多年前提出了一种物理现实的组织方法，即物理实体的组成部分共同构成实体的支配结构，即使该结构限制了组成部分正在进行的活动。在这篇文章中，作者提出，如果一个人采用以系统为导向的方法来理解上帝与世界的关系，那么这种对现实的组织方法将得到加强。神圣生命系统的结构将影响宇宙过程的独立运作模式，而宇宙过程的运作模式将影响神圣的人。
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14746700.2023.2230426
D. Jalajel
ABSTRACT Scientific realism and anti-realism, in various forms, frame many philosophical discussions about what constitutes a successful scientific theory. This paper explores this within an Islamic framework by examining the Sunnī theological tradition's various divine action models (DAMs) for their possible impact upon the theological reception of scientific realism and anti-realism, concluding that the tradition would be committed to an agnostic stance on the question. This enables the tradition to remain relevant to a broad spectrum of future scientific developments and changing intellectual currents.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14746700.2023.2230423
T. Peters
On May 31, 2023, NASA quizzed a panel of scientists regarding UFOs. “Six revelations from NASA’s public panel on UFOs: Strange metallic orbs are being spotted ‘all over the world,’ and an unidentified craft is being detected every Week,” reported the Daily Mail online. Are today’s scientists are now taking the UFO phenomenon seriously? Yes. But to reduce the giggles at cocktail parties, they’ve changed the name from UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) to UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena).
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14746700.2023.2230436
Jeffrey Tolly
ABSTRACT Matthew Braddock’s argument from false god beliefs (AFG) is one of the most significant debunking arguments to emerge from the growing literature on Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR). This argument aims to produce a defeater for any basic theistic belief. In this essay, I reply to AFG by defending a counter-example to AFG’s crucial premise. In particular, I argue that the cognitive mechanisms posited by CSR do not “significantly contribute” to perceptually based theistic belief formation in the way that AFG claims. As a result, a large class of basic theistic beliefs remains undefeated in the face of AFG.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14746700.2023.2230428
Logan David Siler
ABSTRACT This paper will look at David Malet Armstrong's conception of the Laws of Nature in light of Iqbal's conception of nature and divine action. For the sake of pragmatic austerity Armstrong rooted his theory in naturalism, physicalism, and an understanding of the world as a “state of affairs.” In contrast to Humean empiricists, nominalists, and transcendent realists, Armstrong affirmed the reality of both universals and particulars, which relate to each other in what Mumford calls a form of immanent and a posterior realism. It is out of this formulation that he developed his Laws of Nature as relations between universals. Due to the theoretical problems that typically arise from interactionist views (such as some forms of theism), Armstrong operates from a viewpoint that would question the conceivability of anything acting upon nature from beyond the spatio-temporal realm. However, the conception of God offered by Iqbal, the Ultimate Reality existing as “pure-duration”–holding together “the multiplicity of objects and events,” offers a view of nature not as “a mass of pure materiality occupying a void,” but as a “structure of events, a systematic mode of behavior” that is “organic” to the Ultimate Self. Nature is an expression of God's character, His habit. And, “nature”, or “laws of nature,” is our interpretation of the “creative activity” of the Creator. This essay will thus elaborate on the details of Iqbal's conception of God and divine action and the benefits it offers to one seeking to operate within the pragmatic benefits of Armstrong's system while maintaining a decidedly theistic worldview.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14746700.2023.2230434
S. Hart
ABSTRACT Bethany Sollereder’s recent work God, Evolution, and Animal Suffering attempts a novel treatment of the topic of evolutionary theodicy. While her contribution delivers several brilliant insights, its reliance upon the “Only Way” defense, open theism, and kenotic theology leaves it open for critique. After outlining these points, I propose two solutions to supplement her defense—namely Alvin Plantinga’s theory of transworld depravity and a primordial fall of the “messengers”. With these additions, I conclude that the narratival theodicy that emerges is logically tighter, Christocentric, and therapeutic to the sufferer.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14746700.2023.2230431
D. Langton
ABSTRACT A distinctive feature of many Jewish approaches to evolutionary theory has been a panentheistic understanding of the cosmos. Among the earliest Hebrew translations of Darwin are those found in Toldot Adam or The Origin of Man (1874) by the Polish Jewish Naphtali Levy (1840–1894). Often regarded as a traditionalist who sought to harmonize science and Torah, Levy was in fact much more radical and was prepared to prioritise evolutionary science over tradition. Remarkably, God was portrayed as an impersonal natural force, morality was conceived as the result of the “struggle for existence,” and the bestial origins of humanity were privileged over special creation in the image of God.
摘要许多犹太人进化论方法的一个显著特点是对宇宙的泛神论理解。达尔文最早的希伯来语译本是波兰犹太人纳夫塔利·利维（1840–1894）在《亚当》（Toldot Adam）或《人类起源》（the Origin of Man）（1874）中发现的。Levy经常被认为是一个寻求协调科学和《托拉》的传统主义者，事实上，他更激进，并准备将进化科学置于传统之上。值得注意的是，上帝被描绘成一种非个人的自然力量，道德被认为是“生存斗争”的结果，人类的兽性起源优先于上帝形象中的特殊创造。
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