This book challenges the widespread assumption of the incompatibility of evolution and the biological design argument. Drawing on research on the relationship between science and religion, Kojonen analyzes the traditional arguments for incompatibility, and then defends the possibility of seeing evidence of purpose in the order of life, even in an evolutionary cosmos. Kojonen argues for salvaging the idea of design within a theistic evolutionist understanding of nature – in a way that is fully compatible with evolutionary biology. Relating current views to their intellectual history, and to ongoing research in evolutionary biology, Kojonen steers a course that avoids the problems of the God of the gaps, the problem of natural evil, and the Humean and Darwinian critiques of biological design arguments. The book’s argument for seeing biological organisms as manifesting the designed nature of the cosmos has the potential to transform our understanding of the relationship between evolution and creation. weiterlesen