Back to Darwin: The Scientific Case for Deistic Evolution [Hardcover]

Michael Anthony Corey (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1994

The author addresses the major points of disagreement between science and religion, so as to be able to obtain a unified view of the rise of life.
Contents: PREFACE: Creation vs. Evolution: The Modern Debate; The Deistic Roots of Modern Darwinsim. PART I: THE IMPLAUSIBILITY OF NON-THEISTIC EVOLUTION: Spontaneous Generation; Mutations; Species and Speciation; Natural Selection; God and the Nature of Perfection; The Fossil Record. PART II: DIRECTED EVOLUTION: Weak Orthogenesis, Opportunism, the Lamarckism; Evolution and the New Genetics; Self-Organization and the Prospect of Directed Evolution; On the Role of Natural Processes in the Creation. Part III: A THEOLOGICAL JUSTIFICATION FOR THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS: The Reality and the Necessity of Evolution as a Cosmic Process; The Legitimacy of Moderate Anthropocentrism; The Morality of Evolution. PART IV: DEISTIC EVOLUTION AND MODERN PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGY: Supernatural Naturalism; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Corey fuses a recent discovery of chemical evolution into a deistic concept of God and argues, in turn, that this deistic hypothesis provides a metaphysical foundation for evolution... [He] has coupled this old idea with a modern scientific discovery in a convincing and interesting way.>>> (Hee-Joo Park Ctns Bulletin )

Michael Corey makes a refreshing and creative attempt at integrating these two fundamental systems of belief...>>>> (Ctns Bulletin )

Michael Corey makes a refreshing and creative attempt at integrating these two fundamental systems of belief... (Ctns Bulletin )

Corey fuses a recent discovery of chemical evolution into a deistic concept of God and argues, in turn, that this deistic hypothesis provides a metaphysical foundation for evolution... [He] has coupled this old idea with a modern scientific discovery in a convincing and interesting way. (Hee-Joo Park Ctns Bulletin ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

M.A. Corey received his Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate School, where he studied theology and the philosophical relationship between science and religion. He is the author of several books including God and the New Cosmology (UPA, 1993). --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 434 pages
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Amer (January 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0819193062
• ISBN-13: 978-0819193063
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,888,473 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant!, May 3, 2004

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Rocco Boni (Newport, Mi United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Back to Darwin (Paperback)

This book helped me reconcile my belief in God with my belief in evolution.The author demonstrates that the evolutionary process itself demands a Deity. Dr.Corey has taken away the last sanctuary of the atheist. Atheism is left naked, stripped of all rationale.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Corey is a highly gifted thinker, January 18, 2005

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J.M. Lanerbach - See all my reviews

This review is from: Back to Darwin (Paperback)

Dear, Dr. Corey,

I swear, your over-developed intillect would make a great topic for an X-file episode. How is it humanly possible to not only "KNOW OF" every single position, on every single scientific topic ever cogitated by mankind, but to also posess and in-detpth "COMPREHENSION OF" every single position as well?? I marvel when I thumb throgh the bibliographies in the back of your books. You are the scientific equivalent of Bach. I once read that it would take a highly skilled transcriptionist 80 years to simply HAND COPY, all the works of Bach..Let alone create them-all in a single lifetime!! When Bach was asked of his musical fecundity he replied "the music doesn't come FROM me, but rather THROUGH me. This is you to a "T". Cannot everybody see, that you are an anomoly, a super human? One of those figures that show up in history every few hundred years? God created you to both TEACH and INSPIRE.