From: Ursula Goodenough I lack the training to respond to Geoge Ellis’s anti-reductionism arguments with respect to physics, but I don’t believe his arguments with respect to biology should stand unchallenged. He makes two: “(c) The central theme of evolutionary biology is the development of particular DNA codings through an evolutionary process, in order to…
Review of: Genes, Genesis and God: Values and Their Origins in Nature and Human History, Holmes Rolston III, 1999 Cambridge University Press, 432 pages, $59.95 hardcover, $18.95 paperback Holmes Rolston III is a philosopher, and Genes, Genesis and God derives from his set of Gifford Lectures, a distinguished series given at the University of Edinburgh…
The Sacred Depths of Nature, by Ursula Goodenough. Oxford University Press, 1998. 218 pages. ISBN 0-19-512613-0 Table of Contents Personal IntroductionHow This Book Is Put Together I. Origins of the EarthII. Origins of LifeIII. How Life WorksIV. How An Organism WorksV. How Evolution WorksVI. The Evolution of BiodiversityVII. AwarenessVIII. Emotions and MeaningIX. SexX. SexualityXI. Multicellularity…