The Christian's Dilemma: Organicism or Mechanism?

Is organicism inherently Christian-friendly, and for that matter, is mechanism inherently religion nonfriendly? They have tended to be, but the story is much more complicated. The long history of the intertwined metaphors of nature taken as an organism, versus that of nature as a machine, reveals th...

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Main Author: Ruse, Michael 1940- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Open Library of Humanities$s2024- [2017]
In: Zygon
Year: 2017, Volume: 52, Issue: 2, Pages: 442-467
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Nature / Organism / Metaphor / Mechanism (Philosophy) / Theology
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
CF Christianity and Science
Further subjects:B Holism
B Organicism
B Reductionism
B Metaphor
B Mechanism
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