RECONCILIATION OF RELIGION AND SCIENCE indeed seems to be well underway.
Duality in human experience begins with the Opposed Pair that is usefully defined in terms such as the "non-rational" (intuitional) and "finite-rational" (intellectual) mental functions. In human experience of the external environment, the interplay of great dualities first takes opposed form in gender matters hinging on the effects of "feminine-masculine" balance, and effects of imbalance, in individuals and groups.
Human evolutionary experience transforms how we language our cognition of the automatic "assessment... interpretation... conclusion" process by which Guidance can be derived through focused intent.
In early experience, cognition of fundamental Opposed Pairs registers in terms like, "I am not That." After enough experience, the illusion of separateness is surpassed; then, the same elements of Duality continue to manifest on the Field of Relatedness, but cognition registers in different terms: "I see my Reflection."
"I am human and nothing human is alien to me." -Terence, 2nd century bc.
From the earlier "view" of Separation and Alienation, experience leads to the vantage point where Identification and Empathic Resonance is the primary registration in awareness... of the process playing out upon the "Field of Opposites" where Experience can be accumulated.
When individuals and smaller groups achieve the shift of assemblage point from Alienation to Identification, transformational effects are often noted.
Therefore, we have a basis to anticipate significant forwarding developments flowing out of events recorded in Rome at the Vatican-sponsored conference of Evolutionary Biology, where RECONCILIATION OF RELIGION AND SCIENCE indeed seems to be well underway.
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Organisms' common ancestry aids medical research, says biologist
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0900998.htm
Highlights and observations: (1) Scientists state that the origin of all organisms from a single species is scientific FACT. "Some of the latest research in evolutionary biology has also shown that there seems to be "a molecular clock" or a clock-like [MECHANISTIC] process [AUTOPILOT?] that determines when one species will split and another branch will be added to the evolutionary tree." -Douglas Futuyma, a professor of ecology and evolution at the State University of New York at Stony Brook
(2) Vatican philosopher Gennaro Auletta does not contest or "put down" this "fact", but instead points to functional Relatedness as a characteristic possibly of greater value in predicting when species "split" or "branch" in the evolutionary record. "The evolution and development of an organism is the result of a co-evolution -- a co-adaptation" between the organism and its environment, which are constantly interacting with each other.(Relatedness!) Evolution is a function of Relatedness.
Thereby organisms attain a "niche" from where "splitting" and "branching" can occur as a result of adaptive intelligence accruing to meet environmental changes.
3) Don Gennaro: "This is the key point because it means that intelligence is something that is encouraged by evolution" because increased intelligence helps the organism better adapt and survive in its environment, he said." Intelligence arises from Relatedness.
(4) The Vatican appears to disavow those who imply Intelligent Design must be contrary to biological evolution.
Vatican philosopher Don Gennaro: Intelligent design "is not a scientific theory even if it tries to pass itself off as one."
Theologians and many scientists recognize the universe "is not just a random jumble of elements, but is a structure that we can define as being, if not intelligent, then at least intelligible."
However, Auletta said, this has nothing to do with the claims of intelligent design, which accepts that life has evolved over the eons but that because it is so complex its development has been guided by a supreme being or intelligent agent, which some identify as God.
Intelligent Design cannot be taken out of context to dominate Science/Technology.
(5) Don Gennaro: "Catholic theologians understand the distinction between God, who is the first cause of the universe, and his autonomous creatures and creation."
"The way he works, God does not suppress second causes," that is, the laws of nature and the universe, he said.
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