ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to clarify the relation between knowledge gained from the various sciences. Cognitive science is concerned with relating meaningfully the different levels of analysis of information-processing to behaviour. The more the sciences are concerned with the mental life and behavior of human beings, the more they will impinge on the concerns of the Christian community. The evolutionary process itself is characterized by propensities towards increase in complexity, information-processing and storage, consciousness, sensitivity to pain, and even self-consciousness. Biological death was present on the earth long before human beings arrived on the scene, and is the prerequisite of our coming into existence through the processes of biological evolution whereby God, theists must assume, creates new species—including Homo sapiens. “Evolution seems to have played a nasty trick, bringing into existence human beings vast in their desire and potential, but minute in their fulfillment and satisfaction,” concluded the psychologist Morea.
