Creative Evolution

A Physicist's Resolution Between Darwinism and Intelligent Design

By: Amit Goswami PhD

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Hardcover | 1 September 2008

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By denying evolution altogether, says quantum physicist Amit Goswami, intelligent design believers fly in the face of scientific data. But the idea of intelligent design does contain substance that neo-Darwinists cannot ignore. Goswami posits that consciousness, not matter, is the primary force in the universe. Biology must come to terms with feeling, meaning, and the purposefulness of life, as well as with the idea of a designer. What's more, reconciling the question of life's purposefulness and the existence of the designer with neo-Darwinism also answers many other difficult questions. The result is a paradigm shift for biology and the vision of a coherent whole that Goswami calls "science within consciousness." In this timely, important book, the author offers clear arguments supported by the findings of quantum physics that represent a major step in resolving controversies between science and religion.

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"Goswami ranges far, wide, and deep." --Rupert Sheldrake, co-author of The Evolutionary Mind-- "Reviews"
"Professor Amit Goswami presents here a highly rational, objective, and persuasive counter argument to the old materialistic assumption about mind and matter being irrelevantly related with mind a mere epiphenomenon of matter. Goswami is not shy here--he posits a whole new way of thinking that could change both our mindsets about God, mind, and matter and the very nature of what we mean by a physical world as different from a spiritual world. This is an important work to consider regardless of how you feel about the subject." --Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D, author of Mind into Matter, The Yoga of Time Travel, and many other books-- "Reviews"

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List of Illustrations	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Introduction
God and a New Biology	p. 3
Quantum Physics and Downward Causation	p. 31
Connecting Biology to Physics	p. 45
Biology within Consciousness and Other Organizing Principles	p. 53
Evolution: From What to What?	p. 71
Life and Its Origins
Materialist Theories of Life and Its Origin	p. 85
The Origin of the Universe, the Origin of Life, and the Quantum Observer	p. 107
A Designer Needs Blueprints	p. 123
Creative Evolution
The Evolution and Future of Darwinism	p. 135
Post-Darwinian Ideas and the Journey to the New Paradigm	p. 161
Creative Evolution	p. 177
Reconciling Darwinism and Gaia Theory	p. 195
Form, Feeling, and Vital Energies
Morphogenetic Fields, Evolution, and the Development of Form	p. 211
A New Biology of Feeling	p. 221
Neuroscience within Consciousness
The Relation of Consciousness, the Brain, and the Mind	p. 245
Reconciling Cognitive Science with the Paradox of Perception	p. 259
The Evolution of the Mind	p. 269
More New Biology: The Supramental Dimension
The Biology of Death and Survival after Death	p. 283
A New Bioethics and Deep Ecology	p. 291
Lamarckism and the Mystery of Instincts	p. 297
Evolution: The Next Step	p. 307
References	p. 319
Index	p. 328
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