Sarah Coakley, professor i teologi i Cambridge (tidigare vid Harvard) talar om evolutionen, försyn och samarbete.
Intressant är att samarbete främjas av den evolutionära processen. Detta är intressant för teologin, för vi kan inte teologiskt tolka evolutionen om vi har en felaktig bild av den:
At the very least, and in advance of any ascription of religious meaning to the phenomenon, evolution at significant and crucial junctures favours cooperation (blip), costly ‘self-sacrifice’ and even ‘forgiveness’; it favours in due course a rudimentary human ethical sensibility (so Marc Hauser, in his recent Moral Minds), and thus delivers – already in the realm of the higher pre-human mammals – tendencies towards empathy, towards a desire to protect others close to one at the cost of personal risk. At the very least, then, this is the evolutionary seed-bed for higher, intentional forms of altruistic ethical ‘virtue’ (blop), although these latter (with their complex forms of human intentionality and freedom of choice) are of a distinctively different sort from the pre-human varieties of cooperation, and cannot in my view be reductively subsumed under mathematical prediction.
http://www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/faraday/resources/FAR244%20Coakley%20Lecture.pdf
Eller videolänk: http://media.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/WebMedia/FAR244%20Coakley.mov
