Darwin’s Perplexing Paradox : Intelligent Design in Nature
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https://hdl.handle.net/10037/5990Dato
2013Type
Journal articleTidsskriftartikkel
Peer reviewed
Sammendrag
Today, many would assume that Charles Darwin absolutely rejected
any claim of intelligent design in nature.However, review of his initial writings reveals
that Darwin accepted some aspects of this view. His conceptualization of design was
founded on both the cosmological and the teleological ideas from classical natural theology.
When Darwin discovered the dynamic process of natural selection, he rejected
the old teleological argument as formulated byWilliam Paley. However, he was never
able to ignore the powerful experience of the beauty and complexity of an intelligently
designed universe, as a whole. He corresponded with Asa Gray on religious themes,
particularly touching the problem of pain and intelligent design in nature.The term
“intelligent design” was probably introduced byWilliamWhewell. Principally for theological
and philosophical reasons, Darwin could only accept the concept for the universe
as a whole, not with respect to individual elements of the living world.
Forlag
Johns Hopkins University PressSitering
Perspectives in biology and medicine 56(2013) nr. 1 s. 78-98Metadata
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