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dc.contributor.authorThorvaldsen, Steinar
dc.contributor.authorØhrstrøm, Peter
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-20T10:42:53Z
dc.date.available2014-03-20T10:42:53Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractToday, 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.en
dc.identifier.citationPerspectives in biology and medicine 56(2013) nr. 1 s. 78-98en
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1047652
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2013.0000
dc.identifier.issn0031-5982
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/5990
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:no-uit_munin_5718
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherJohns Hopkins University Pressen
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccess
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Philosophical disciplines: 160::Other philosophical disciplines: 169en
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Filosofiske fag: 160::Andre filosofiske fag: 169en
dc.subjectVDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Basic biosciences: 470en
dc.subjectVDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Basale biofag: 470en
dc.titleDarwin’s Perplexing Paradox : Intelligent Design in Natureen
dc.typeJournal articleen
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dc.typePeer revieweden


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