Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: A Third Collection

Titel: A Third Collection

Stichwort: Vorsehung und Wahrscheinlichkeit, Evolution (PROBABILITY AND PROVIDENCE)

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Textausschnitt: 7/3 A theologian, if he thinks of evolution, turns to divine providence. A contemporary scientist that does so thinks of probabilities. Darwin's accumulations of chance variations have gained respectability as probabilities of emergence. His survival of the fittest becomes probabilities of survival. What holds for living things, also holds in inanimate nature. Quantum theory has ended the long reign of mechanist determinism and has enthroned statistical law. (24f; Fs)