Notes

  1. . The question of survival as a religious value is posed effectively by Philip Hefner, “Survival as a Human Value,” in this issue.
  2. . Donald T.Cambell, “Blind Variation and Selective Retention in Creative Thought as in Other Knowledge Processes,” Psychological Review  671960: 380.
  3. . Gerald Karp, Cell Biology (New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Co., 1979), p. 454; Albert L. Lehninger, Biochemistry, 2d ed. (New York: Worth Publishers, 1975), p. 860.
  4. . For a more detailed statement of the relationship between genetic and cultural information systems see Ralph WendellBurhoe, “Religion's Role in Human Evolution: The Missing Link between Ape‐Man's Selfish Genes and Civilized Altruism,” Zygon  14 (June 1979):139–48.
  5. . A more extensive scientific‐theological analysis of this view of the human self is elaborated by Ralph WendellBurhoe in his“ The Concepts of God and Soul in a Scientific View of Human Purpose,” Zygon  8 (SeptemberDecember 1973): 432–38.
  6. . J.Bronowski, “New Concepts in the Evolution of complexity: Stratified Stability and Unbounded Plans,” Zygon  5 (March 1970):22–24.
  7. . Along with a summary of the work of Ilya Prigogine and Manfred Eigen, the musical metaphor is suggested to me by A. R. Peacocke's “Chance and the Life Game,” Zygon 14 (December 1979): 310–17. Peacocke, however, speaks theistically of God as the composer.
  8. . Kent Danner, ed., The American Wilderness in the Words of John Muir (Waukesha, Wis.: Country Beautiful Corp., 1973), p. 58.
  9. . MaxRudolf Lemberg, “The Complementarity of Religion and Science: A Trialogue,” Zygon  14 (December 1979):373–74.
  10. . Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1959), esp. pp. 273–90.
  11. . Charles Hartshorne. “The Development of Process Philosophy,” in Process Theology, ed. Ewert H. Cousins (New York. Newman Press, 1971), pi. 47–66, esp. pp. 58–64.
  12. . For reasons for regarding the evolutionary process as divine see my “The Image of God as a Model for Humanization,” Zygon 9 (June 1974): 112–13.