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The concepts of god and soul in a scientific view of human purpose

Ralph Wendell Burhoe
- 01 Sep 1973 - 
- Vol. 8, pp 412-442
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This article is published in Zygon.The article was published on 1973-09-01. It has received 16 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Soul.

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On the conflicts between biological and social evolution and between psychology and moral tradition.

TL;DR: These are important issues to which psychology should give much greater attention, and that scientific reasons exist for believing that there can be profound system wisdom in the belief systems the authors' social tradition has provided us with.
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On the conflicts between biological and social evolution and between psychology and moral tradition.

TL;DR: The APA Presidential address as mentioned in this paper states that when there is genetic competition among the cooperators (as for humans but not for the social insects), great limitations are placed upon the degree of socially useful, individually self-sacrificial altruism that biological evolution can produce.
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The relation between science and theology: the case for complementarity revisited

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the complementarity of science and theology from a psychological perspective and from an epistemological one, and concluded that the assumption of complementarity is reasonable and useful both in research and in teaching.
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Churches at the transition between growth and world equilibrium

TL;DR: Forrester as discussed by the authors pointed out that overtaxing of the natural environment is caused more by industrialization than by population, and that limiting of capital accumulation is as necessary as limiting of population.