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Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1 Does life on earth have a purpose?

1 A quest for meaning

2 Planned approach

Chapter 2 Creationism, Intelligent Design, and Augustine's idea of time

1 Creation and creationism

2 Life based on an Intelligent Design?

3 A bridge between science and faith?

4 Creation stories and their practical intent

5 Augustine: time is a creature of god

Chapter 3 Darwin, neo-Darwinism, and the naturalistic continuity claim

1 Darwin's theory of evolution: the CVST algorithm

2 Evolution theory and evolutionism

3 The ambiguity of naturalism

4 Continuity and reducibility?

Chapter 4 Miller's pre-biotic broth and the premises of evolutionism

1 Origin of life: a category mistake

2 Survival of the fittest: a tautology

3 Evolution of science: a performative contradiction

Chapter 5 A cold shudder along Darwin's back

1 The durability of biological species

2 Gradualism and punctuated equilibria

3 The ancient lithographic bird

4 God, time, and taxonomy

Chapter 6 The emergence theory of Morgan and Alexander

1 Emergence according to Morgan and Alexander

2 The intentionality of human consciousness

3 Metaphysics and the Standpoint of Experience

Chapter 7 Luctor et emergo: what is emergent evolution?

1 Mozart and "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"

2 Organizational levels in nature

3 Entities and modalities

4 Supervenience, correlation, and idionomy

5 Chimpanzees and the HIV virus

6 Michael Behe and his mousetrap

Chapter 8 Toward a general theory of emergent evolution

1 John Searle and the mystery of consciousness

2 Peter Checkland and the structures of society

3 Ontological stratification

Chapter 9 Hominization and the philosophy of mind

1 Emergent evolution as a conceptual scheme

2 The human person and the mask

3 The anthropic principle

4 Biological constants? Conway Morris

5 Methodological naturalism

6 The problem of David Chalmers

Chapter 10 Augustinian faith and evolutionary science

1 The creation account and the story of becoming

2 Fides quaerit intellectum: a hermeneutic horizon

3 Pakicetus, the swimming ungulate

4 Personal experiences

Chapter 11 The organism is a whole. The world is a habitat

1 J.C. Smuts, holism, and evolution

2 Enzymes, neurons, and emotions

3 The life-world

4 From biosphere to noosphere

5 New Age and Brahman

Chapter 12 The slumbering temptation of essentialism

1 Is there a creation order? Herman Dooyeweerd

2 The standpoint of experience and metaphysics

3 The reflective-empirical method

4 The reflective-empirical method and living nature

5 Type laws: an essentialist error

6 Escaping essentialism

Chapter 13 Questions surrounding the emergence process

1 Hidden configurations in nature: prions

2 John Paul II on the evolution problem

3 Ontological profile and evolutionary process: Neanderthals

4 The last great narrative

Chapter 14 Enkapsis in nature. Is there an Omega point?

1 Self-subordination in Baja California

2 "Desert storm" and other miracles

3 The kingdom of God as final stage? Teilhard and Laszlo

4 Human experiences are ambiguous

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