“When physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, contribute to the detection of concrete human woes and to the development of plans for remedying them and relieving the human estate, they become moral; they become part of the apparatus of moral inquiry or science? When the consciousness of science is fully impregnated with the consciousness of human value, the greatest dualism which now weighs humanity down, the split between the material, the mechanical and the scientific and the moral and ideal will be destroyed.” HumansValuesHumanityConsciousnessMoralPlansMaterialsDevelopmentIdealsMedicinePhysicsDestroyedBiologyChemistryConcreteSplitsEstatesWoeInquiryHuman ValuesDualismDetection Author:John Dewey
“Twentieth-century developments in science support a new animism. Developments in physics have led to a world of energetic events which seem to be self-moving and to behave in unpredictable ways. And recent studies in biology seem to demonstrate that bacteria and macromolecules have elemental forms of perception, memory, choice, and self-motion.” WorldWaySelfSeemsMovingFormChoicesMemoriesSupportStudyCenturyEventsDevelopmentPerceptionPhysicsBehaveBiologyUnpredictableTwentieth CenturyEnergeticElementalsBacteriaAnimism Book:God and Religion in the Postmodern World: Essays in Postmodern Theology Source: God and Religion in the Postmodern World: Essays in Postmodern Theology
“Biology is far from understanding exactly how a single cell develops into a baby, but research suggests that human development can ultimately be explained in terms of biochemistry and molecular biology. Most scientists would make a similar statement about evolution.” HumansUnderstandingTermBabyDevelopmentEvolutionResearchScientistStatementsCellsBiologyHuman DevelopmentBiochemistryMolecular Biology Author:Kenneth R. Miller