Towards an Ethics of Technology: Re-Exploring Teilhard de Chardin’s Theory of Technology and Evolution
Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=51174#.VFgt0WfHRK0 Author(s) Archimedes C. Articulo Affiliation(s) College of Arts and Sciences, Cagayan State University, Tuguegarao City, Philippines . ABSTRACT Defining the mechanism of evolution is a controversial issue that, until now, divides the scientific community. Some have argued in the strictest Darwinian terms that evolution’s primary mechanism is necessity—“survival of the fittest”. Other evolutionists followed in the footsteps of Jacques Monod, the French biologist, who argued for a mixture of random chance and necessity. Teilhard de Chardin, it is widely believed, took Monod one step further by asserting that evo...