Darwinizm i koncepcja wieloświata a religijne wyjaśnienie racjonalnego porządku i poznawalności przyrody

• Authors: Piotr Bylica

Title variants

EN

Darwinism and the idea of multiverse versus religious explanation for the rationality and intelligibility of nature

• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

EN

I show that at present times there is a conflict between natural science and religion (Christian theism) in the domain that, until recently, was considered to be beyond scientific interest. What I mean here, is the question of general order, rationality or intelligibility of nature that was supposed to belong to the domain of philosophy or theology, rather than science itself. I show that Darwin’s theory of natural selection allowed to remove from science not only explanations referring to God’s supernatural interventions in nature, but also any reference to God’s guidance of development of life on Earth. The success of Darwin’s theory contributes to domination of naturalism in science. In turn the concept of multiverse that is found in the contemporary cosmology and quantum physics, is an idea that in naturalistic way- which makes it acceptable in science- makes it possible to rationally deny even the deistic concept of God’s only role in nature as a source of general order, rationality and intelligibility of the world.

Keywords

PL

wieloświat; darwinizm; teizm; ateizm; przyroda; naturalizm; teistyczny naturalizm; zasada antropiczna

EN

multiverse; Darwinism; theism; atheism; nature; naturalism; theistic naturalism; anthropic principle

• Publisher: Science Studies Committee, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 48
• Issue: 3 (193)
• Pages: 185-204

Contributors

author

Piotr Bylica

• Zakład Logiki i Metodologii Nauk Instytut Filozofii Uniwersytetu Zielonogórskiego