Altruism and the Administration of the Universe: Kirtley Fletcher Mather on Science and Values

Abstract. Few American scientists have devoted as much attention to religion and science as Harvard geologist Kirtley Fletcher Mather (1888–1978). Responding to antievolutionism during the 1920s, he taught Sunday School classes, assisted in defending John Scopes, and wrote Science in Search of God (...

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1. VerfasserIn: Davis, Edward B. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Wiley-Blackwell 2011
In: Zygon
Jahr: 2011, Band: 46, Heft: 3, Seiten: 517-535
weitere Schlagwörter:B Theodicy
B Altruism
B administration of the universe
B God
B creative evolution
B Paleontology
B Modernism
B Kirtley Fletcher Mather
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Zusammenfassung:Abstract. Few American scientists have devoted as much attention to religion and science as Harvard geologist Kirtley Fletcher Mather (1888–1978). Responding to antievolutionism during the 1920s, he taught Sunday School classes, assisted in defending John Scopes, and wrote Science in Search of God (1928). Over the next 40 years, Mather explored the place of humanity in the universe and the presence of values in light of what he often called “the administration of the universe,” a term and concept he borrowed from his former teacher, geologist Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin. Human values, including cooperation and altruism, had emerged in such a context: “the administrative directive toward orderly organization of increasingly complex systems transcends the urge for survival.” He was also active in the early years of the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science, an organization created by his good friends Ralph Wendell Burhoe and Harlow Shapley.
ISSN:1467-9744
Enthält:Enthalten in: Zygon
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2011.01197.x