PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Theistic Evolution, Agnosticism

• School: York University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1100
• Professor: David Stamos

Document Summary

Utilitarianism an ethical philosophy in which the happiness of the greatest number of people in the society is considered the greatest good. Theistic evolution theistic evolution or evolutionary creation is a concept that asserts that classical religious teachings about god are compatible with the modern scientific understanding about biological evolution. In short, theistic evolutionists believe that there is a god, that god is the creator of the material universe and (by consequence) all life within, and that biological evolution is simply a natural process within that creation. For example, you can know what the purpose of a brain surgery is, but you can disapprove the concept of surgery as a whole. We have to make it for ourselves: nielsen thinks that philosophy can objectively help us decide when one choice of value is better than the other one, there are arguments and evidences in morality.