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Gifford Lecture 17th April 2012 - Stories of Evolution, Stories of Sacrifice

In this opening lecture of the Aberdeen Gifford Lecture Series 2012, Professor Sarah Coakley analyses the current malaise of "natural theology" and its philosophical and theological causes, and invites reflection on a bold reformulation of its task which might contest the cynicism of a culture convinced of primary selfishness. Outlining the history of "stories of evolution, stories of sacrifice" which have inflected the popular understanding of evolutionary theory in the late 20th century, she proposes a new vision of the relation of mathematical evolutionary theory, philosophy, and theology which will be capable of probing the ultimate meaning of evolutionary "cooperation" and "altruism". Sacrifice Regained: Evolution, Cooperation and God In this series, Professor Sarah Coakley explores the implications of recent developments in the mathematical study of "evolutionary dynamics" for ethics, metaphysics, the philosophy of science and theology. Arguing that the last decades of the twentieth century saw a notable failure of nerve in universal accounts of religious rationality, and a simultaneous obsession with the "selfishness" of evolutionary phenomena, Coakley seeks to clarify afresh the importance of the countervailing sacrificial dimensions of evolutionary processes for central issues in the philosophy of science and ethics. Thereby she moves to suggest a transformed way forward in the task of "natural theology".