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Werner J. Schwemmler
On the True Nature of Evolution
Between Science and Religion
Review
The knowledge we have of the world and ourselves is increasing rapidly. One aspect of this is that previously isolated areas of science are growing together. Scientists (e.g. Eigen, Davies, Hawking), humanists (e.g. Freud, Fromm, Jung) and meta-scientists (e.g. Schelling, Teilhard de Chardin, Rahner) have had increasing success in giving an uniform explanation for the phenomena of our real world. Among these holistic explanations there are the "great unified" conceptions of the sciences with regard to the origins of the universe and humankind, the humanistic teachings of the archetypes of mythic tradition and human cognition and, finally, the attempts of the meta-sciences to establish a "theologically" analogous relationship between the material-cultural and the spiritual-religious aspects of humankind.
On this foundation the author employs the method of mutual complementarity to search for a possible common denominator of this data. Exact scientific analysis is used, although general understandability is not sacrificed. The unexpected result is the derivation of a new, unified, holistic world-view in which the scientific statements of natural cognition of mankind and the supranatural statements of divine revelation come together like two halves of a circle to form the complete truth. In addition, interesting aspects of Biblical and individual revelations, as well as of old and new Gnostic conceptions, become clear.
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