RT Article
T1 On Two Issues in Science and Religion: A Response to David Griffin
JF Zygon
VO 23
IS 1
SP 83
OP 88
A1 Barbour, Ian G. 1923-2013
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 1988
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1827948140
AB Abstract. In responding to David Griffin's critique of my book, Issues in Science and Religion, I suggest that most of the points which he initially presents as differences between us concerning reduction and emergence are resolved in the second half of his article. I spoke of the emergence of higher-level “properties” and “activities,” rather than “entities,” but my analysis of whole and parts is similar to his, although it was perhaps not always clearly articulated. We agree also that Alfred North Whitehead's God is involved in every event in ways which avoid the problems of the supernatu-ralist “God of the gaps,” but we differ as to whether God's action might be taken into account in a new “post-modern” science.
K1 science and theology
K1 Process Philosophy
K1 mind-body relation
K1 god-world relation
K1 Emergence
DO 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1988.tb00619.x