The proceedings of the plenary session on Scientific insights into the evolution of the universe and of life : 31 October-4 November 2008 /
The proceedings of the plenary session on Scientific insights into the evolution of the universe and of life : 31 October-4 November 2008 /
Scientific insights into the evolution of the universe and of life
ed. by Werner Arber, Nicola Cabibbo, Marcelo Sâanchez Sorondo.
- Vatican City : Ex Aedibus Academicis in Civitate Vaticana, 2009.
- lxvii, 620 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Acta ; 20 .
Rugtitel: Scientific insights into the evolution of the universe and of life.
Papst Benedikt XVI. uber "Schöpfung und Evolution" / Christoph Schönborn -- The reflections of Joseph Ratzinger Pope Benedict XVI on evolution / Christoph Schönborn -- From a simple big bang to our complex cosmos / Martin J. Rees -- Scientific quest into evolution of life in the universe / Govind Swarup -- The origin of the universe / Stephen Hawking -- What we know, and what we don’t know, about the universe / Vera C. Rubin -- Galaxy evolution / José G. Funes -- Rigorous logic in the theory of evolution / Antonino Zichichi -- The search for the chemistry of life’s origin / Albert Eschenmoser -- The birth of oxygen / John Abelson -- The genetic code and evolution / Marshall W. Nirenberg -- The role of chance in evolution / Giorgio Bernardi -- Bacterial evolution : random or selective? / Rafael Vicuña -- From microbial genetics to molecular Darwinism and beyond / Werner Arber -- Why it is useful to know the modern theory of evolution / Luigi L. Cavalli-Sforza and Francesco Cavalli-Sforza -- The future of life / Christian de Duve -- The evolutionary origin and process of the central nervous system : comparative genomics approach / Takashi Gojobori -- Genetic and epigenetic shaping of cognition - prerequisites of cultural evolution / Wolf Singer -- The language of God / Francis S. Collins -- The bunch of prehumans and the emergence of the genus Homo / Yves Coppens -- Culture in hominization and its implications in an evolutionary view / Fiorenzo Facchini -- Cognition, consciousness, and culture : understanding human cognition and its grounding in a primate brain / Stanislas Dehaene -- Evolution and creation : how to terminate with a false opposition between chance and creation : an epistemological note / Jean-Michel Maldamé -- The human being - God’s plan or just sheer chance? / Ulrich Lüke -- The Catholic Church and evolutionary theory : a conflict model / Gereon Wolters -- La doctrine philosophique et théologique de la création chez Thomas D’Aquin / Georges Cottier -- Naturalness and directing human evolution : a philosophical note / Jürgen Mittelstrass -- Evolution as science and ideology / Stanley L. Jaki -- Plant breeding as an example of ’engineered’ evolution / Ingo Potrykus -- Digital intelligence : the evolution of a new human capacity / Antonio M. Battro -- The teaching of evolution / Pierre J. Léna -- The latest challenge to evolution : intelligent design / Maxine F. Singer -- Statement by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on current scientific knowledge on cosmic evolution and biological evolution (revised draft of 24 January 2009) / W. Arber ... [et al.] -- Summary / Christian de Duve.
One chapter also in German; one chapter in French.
9788877610973 8877610972
Cosmology--Congresses.
Evolution (Biology)--Congresses.
Life--Origin--Congresses.
QB 980 / P816p 2009
Rugtitel: Scientific insights into the evolution of the universe and of life.
Papst Benedikt XVI. uber "Schöpfung und Evolution" / Christoph Schönborn -- The reflections of Joseph Ratzinger Pope Benedict XVI on evolution / Christoph Schönborn -- From a simple big bang to our complex cosmos / Martin J. Rees -- Scientific quest into evolution of life in the universe / Govind Swarup -- The origin of the universe / Stephen Hawking -- What we know, and what we don’t know, about the universe / Vera C. Rubin -- Galaxy evolution / José G. Funes -- Rigorous logic in the theory of evolution / Antonino Zichichi -- The search for the chemistry of life’s origin / Albert Eschenmoser -- The birth of oxygen / John Abelson -- The genetic code and evolution / Marshall W. Nirenberg -- The role of chance in evolution / Giorgio Bernardi -- Bacterial evolution : random or selective? / Rafael Vicuña -- From microbial genetics to molecular Darwinism and beyond / Werner Arber -- Why it is useful to know the modern theory of evolution / Luigi L. Cavalli-Sforza and Francesco Cavalli-Sforza -- The future of life / Christian de Duve -- The evolutionary origin and process of the central nervous system : comparative genomics approach / Takashi Gojobori -- Genetic and epigenetic shaping of cognition - prerequisites of cultural evolution / Wolf Singer -- The language of God / Francis S. Collins -- The bunch of prehumans and the emergence of the genus Homo / Yves Coppens -- Culture in hominization and its implications in an evolutionary view / Fiorenzo Facchini -- Cognition, consciousness, and culture : understanding human cognition and its grounding in a primate brain / Stanislas Dehaene -- Evolution and creation : how to terminate with a false opposition between chance and creation : an epistemological note / Jean-Michel Maldamé -- The human being - God’s plan or just sheer chance? / Ulrich Lüke -- The Catholic Church and evolutionary theory : a conflict model / Gereon Wolters -- La doctrine philosophique et théologique de la création chez Thomas D’Aquin / Georges Cottier -- Naturalness and directing human evolution : a philosophical note / Jürgen Mittelstrass -- Evolution as science and ideology / Stanley L. Jaki -- Plant breeding as an example of ’engineered’ evolution / Ingo Potrykus -- Digital intelligence : the evolution of a new human capacity / Antonio M. Battro -- The teaching of evolution / Pierre J. Léna -- The latest challenge to evolution : intelligent design / Maxine F. Singer -- Statement by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on current scientific knowledge on cosmic evolution and biological evolution (revised draft of 24 January 2009) / W. Arber ... [et al.] -- Summary / Christian de Duve.
One chapter also in German; one chapter in French.
9788877610973 8877610972
Cosmology--Congresses.
Evolution (Biology)--Congresses.
Life--Origin--Congresses.
QB 980 / P816p 2009