The Meaning of Life from the Perspective of Modern Evolutionism. Cover Image

Sensul vieţii din perspectiva evoluţionismului contemporan.
The Meaning of Life from the Perspective of Modern Evolutionism.

Author(s): Andreea Elena Matic
Subject(s): Epistemology, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Science
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: Evolution; life; philosophy; final argument; entropy; teleology; philosophy of science; value of life; natural selection; death;

Summary/Abstract: Perhaps every artistic, philosophical, scientific or religious action of any human being is based on the quest for understanding the meaning of his/her own existence. In order to achieve immortality or as a consequence of the need to exist eternally in one way or another, we are headed in different directions. The religious man seeks a theological explanation (and there is a big amount of such explanations) and the least religious man (or just more skeptical) is headed towards the scientific discoveries. The Art, the Science, and the Religion are our reference points when trying to load a deeper sense to our existence. Creationism has always had a number of supporters, many of them intelligent and passionate. Their main occupation was, over time, to integrate the scientific discoveries into religion and to assign everything that happens in the hands of a conscious Creator who made us and wants us to exist. The present paper consists of a review of several discoveries and theories elaborated by modern evolutionists. All these new discoveries cover several scientific domains such as biology, physics, genetics and paleontology, and they have transformed our knowledge about the Universe and the nature of human being and life in general.

  • Issue Year: XV/2017
  • Issue No: 15
  • Page Range: 259-269
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Romanian