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Chance and the life game

Zygon 14 (4):301-322 (1979)

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  1. Toward an evolutionary ecology of meaning.Jeffrey S. Wicken - 1989 - Zygon 24 (2):153-184.
    I will discuss some of the implications of the ongoing Darwinian revolution for theology as a constructor and interpreter of human meaning. Focus will be directed toward the following issues: How should we best understand ourselves in the new, evolutionary cosmos? What are the problems with the kind of genetic reductionism espoused by neo‐Darwinism? How are those problems resolved by the “relational” understanding of life made available by thermodynamics and ecology? How do we generate meaning‐structures in this relationally‐constituted cosmos? Finally, (...)
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  • Chance, necessity, love: An evolutionary theology of cancer.Leonard M. Hummel & Gayle E. Woloschak - 2016 - Zygon 51 (2):293-317.
    In his 1970s work Chance and Necessity, Jacques Monod provided an explanatory framework not only for the biological evolution of species, but, as has become recently apparent, for the evolutionary development of cancers. That is, contemporary oncological research has demonstrated that cancer is an evolutionary disease that develops according to the same dynamics of chance and necessity at work in all evolutionary phenomena. And just as various challenges are raised for religious thought by the operations of chance and necessity within (...)
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  • Dancing with the sacred: Excerpts.Karl E. Peters - 2005 - Zygon 40 (3):631-666.
    In excerpts from my Dancing with the Sacred (2002), I use ideas from modern science, our world's religions, and my own experience to highlight three themes of the book. First, working within the framework of a scientific worldview, I develop a concept of the sacred (or God) as the creative activity of nature, human history, and individual life. Second, I offer a relational understanding of human nature that I call our social‐ecological selves and suggest some general considerations about what it (...)
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  • The cosmic breath: Reflections on the thermodynamics of creation.Jeffrey S. Wicken - 1984 - Zygon 19 (4):487-505.
    This paper views such distinctions as creation and degeneration or good and evil in the Eastern sense of unity in polarity rather than in the Western sense of dual, antagonistic principles. Hence it considers the thermodynamic forces of evolution as processes of creation driven by entropy dissipation and explores the analogies this conception bears to the Hindu image of nature as the changing mist of a universal breath. Using this image, the paper examines the sense in which the second law (...)
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