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- catalog abstract ""Scientists often pretend that their disciplines only describe and analyze natural processes in factual terms, without making evaluative statements regarding reality. However, scientists may also be driven by the beauty of that which they study. Or they may be appalled by suffering they encounter, and look for technical or medical means 'to improve nature'. Outside of the scientific community, value judgments are even more common. Humans evaluate nature and natural processes in moral, aesthetic and religious terms as cruel, beautiful, hopeful or meaningless. Is nature ultimately good, with all suffering and evil justified in the context of the larger evolutionary process? Or is nature to be improved, via culture or technology, as it is considered less adequate than it could be? In this book, some major scientists, theologians, and philosophers discuss these issues. As a study on the relations between religion and science, this is unique in emphasizing the evaluation of nature, rather than treating religion and science as competing or complementary casual explanations."--Publisher Summary.".
- catalog contributor b12713681.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""Scientists often pretend that their disciplines only describe and analyze natural processes in factual terms, without making evaluative statements regarding reality. However, scientists may also be driven by the beauty of that which they study. Or they may be appalled by suffering they encounter, and look for technical or medical means 'to improve nature'. Outside of the scientific community, value judgments are even more common. Humans evaluate nature and natural processes in moral, aesthetic and religious terms as cruel, beautiful, hopeful or meaningless. Is nature ultimately good, with all suffering and evil justified in the context of the larger evolutionary process? Or is nature to be improved, via culture or technology, as it is considered less adequate than it could be? In this book, some major scientists, theologians, and philosophers discuss these issues. As a study on the relations between religion and science, this is unique in emphasizing the evaluation of nature, rather than treating religion and science as competing or complementary casual explanations."--Publisher Summary.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Mathew Illathuparampil -- Exploring technonature with cyborgs / Anne Kull -- PART IV. VALUES AS EXPLANATION OR VALUES EXPLAINED? -- Two forms of explanation / Keith Ward -- Two forms of explanation: a response to Ward / Martien E. Brinkman -- Two forms of explanation: a response to Ward / Ronald Meester -- Evaluation of natural reality: a watertight case? / Edwin Koster -- 'Ought' in a world that just 'is' / Lindon B. Eaves -- What values guide our oughts? / Angela Roothaan -- Normative relevance of disputes in primatology / Tatjana Visak -- Evolutionary views on the biological basis of religion / Nico M. Van Straalen, Jair Stein -- On pattern recognition, evolution, epistemology, religion and evil / Mladen Turk.".
- catalog description "Nature does not care indeed, but humans do: a commentary / Fred Spier -- Lisbon earthquake, 1755: a discourse about the 'nature' of nature / Claudia Sanides-Kohlrausch -- Tragedy versus hope: what future in an open universe? / Arnold Benz -- Tragedy versus hope? A theological response / Eduardo R. Cruz -- Cosmic fine-tuning, 'many universe' theories and the goodness of life / Neil A. Manson -- PART III. IMPROVING NATURE VIA CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY? -- Improvable nature? / John Hedley Brooke -- Victims of nature cry out / Leo P. Ten Kate -- 'Improvable nature?' Some meta-historical reflections / Henk G. Geertsema -- Is nature neutral? The concept of health / Kris Dierickx -- Nature good and evil: a theological palette / Philip Hefner -- Nature good and evil: a theological evaluation / Wessel Stoker -- Quest for perfection: insights from Paul Tillich / Eduardo R. Cruz -- Normativity of nature: natural law in a technological life-world /".
- catalog description "This vale of tears -- the best of all possible worlds? / Willem B. Drees -- PART I. NATURE, SCIENCE AND VALUE -- Criticizing the cosmos / Mary Midgley -- Response to Mary Midgley's 'criticizing the cosmos' / Silvia Völker -- Mary Midgley on science, nature, metaphysics and ethics: some comments / Hans Radder -- Mind and value: reflections on Max Weber / Joachim Leilich -- Moral relevance of naturalness / Tatjana Visak -- Experience of nature: a hermeneutic approach / Angela Roothaan -- Human interpretation and animal excellence / Peter Scheers -- PART II. EVIL EVOLUTIONARY JUSTIFIED? -- Naturalizing and systematizing evil / Holmes Rolston, III -- Cooperation or competition: comments on Rolston / Jacobus J. De Vries -- Rolston: a contemporary physico-theologian / Jozef Keulartz -- Are catastrophes in nature ever evil? / Jan Smit -- Contingency and risk: comment on Smit / Arthur C. Petersen --".
- catalog extent "xv, 341 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0415290600".
- catalog identifier "0415290619 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Routledge,".
- catalog subject "111/.84 21".
- catalog subject "BD581 .I595 2003".
- catalog subject "Christian ethics.".
- catalog subject "Nature Moral and ethical aspects.".
- catalog subject "Nature Religious aspects Christianity.".
- catalog subject "Philosophy of nature.".
- catalog subject "Science Moral and ethical aspects.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Mathew Illathuparampil -- Exploring technonature with cyborgs / Anne Kull -- PART IV. VALUES AS EXPLANATION OR VALUES EXPLAINED? -- Two forms of explanation / Keith Ward -- Two forms of explanation: a response to Ward / Martien E. Brinkman -- Two forms of explanation: a response to Ward / Ronald Meester -- Evaluation of natural reality: a watertight case? / Edwin Koster -- 'Ought' in a world that just 'is' / Lindon B. Eaves -- What values guide our oughts? / Angela Roothaan -- Normative relevance of disputes in primatology / Tatjana Visak -- Evolutionary views on the biological basis of religion / Nico M. Van Straalen, Jair Stein -- On pattern recognition, evolution, epistemology, religion and evil / Mladen Turk.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Nature does not care indeed, but humans do: a commentary / Fred Spier -- Lisbon earthquake, 1755: a discourse about the 'nature' of nature / Claudia Sanides-Kohlrausch -- Tragedy versus hope: what future in an open universe? / Arnold Benz -- Tragedy versus hope? A theological response / Eduardo R. Cruz -- Cosmic fine-tuning, 'many universe' theories and the goodness of life / Neil A. Manson -- PART III. IMPROVING NATURE VIA CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY? -- Improvable nature? / John Hedley Brooke -- Victims of nature cry out / Leo P. Ten Kate -- 'Improvable nature?' Some meta-historical reflections / Henk G. Geertsema -- Is nature neutral? The concept of health / Kris Dierickx -- Nature good and evil: a theological palette / Philip Hefner -- Nature good and evil: a theological evaluation / Wessel Stoker -- Quest for perfection: insights from Paul Tillich / Eduardo R. Cruz -- Normativity of nature: natural law in a technological life-world /".
- catalog tableOfContents "This vale of tears -- the best of all possible worlds? / Willem B. Drees -- PART I. NATURE, SCIENCE AND VALUE -- Criticizing the cosmos / Mary Midgley -- Response to Mary Midgley's 'criticizing the cosmos' / Silvia Völker -- Mary Midgley on science, nature, metaphysics and ethics: some comments / Hans Radder -- Mind and value: reflections on Max Weber / Joachim Leilich -- Moral relevance of naturalness / Tatjana Visak -- Experience of nature: a hermeneutic approach / Angela Roothaan -- Human interpretation and animal excellence / Peter Scheers -- PART II. EVIL EVOLUTIONARY JUSTIFIED? -- Naturalizing and systematizing evil / Holmes Rolston, III -- Cooperation or competition: comments on Rolston / Jacobus J. De Vries -- Rolston: a contemporary physico-theologian / Jozef Keulartz -- Are catastrophes in nature ever evil? / Jan Smit -- Contingency and risk: comment on Smit / Arthur C. Petersen --".
- catalog title "Is nature ever evil? : religion, science, and value / edited by Willem B. Drees.".
- catalog type "text".