While continuing to affirm that the Bible is the Word of God, many Evangelicals have been open to contemporary trends in critical biblical scholarship, found means to accommodate a belief in biological evolution, and developed a consciousness of the role of culture in shaping theological perspectives.
He sees human consciousness as a mistake, an accident of evolution.
The idea of a supernatural "consciousness" directing evolution would find a home among advocates of intelligent design creationism, for whom the "intelligent designer" creates the "information" of biologic systems, with humans occupying a special, privileged status among other animals.
The ideas that are central to my work are things like the future of consciousness, evolution of spirit, the destruction of control mechanisms -- be they social, physical, or psychological -- humanity and spirituality, the universe, sexuality, and humanism and post-humanism.
Even now, philosophy's unique contribution to interdisciplinary studies of consciousness, the evolution of intelligence, the meaning of altruism, the nature of moral obligation, the scope of justice, the concept of pain, the theory of perception and so on still relies on its capacity to bring high degrees of conceptual exactness and rigour to arguments in these areas.
In pursuit of consciousness, evolution of forms occurs in seven stages: stone or metal, vegetable, worm, fish, bird, animal, and human.
And we can do that by dropping the anthropomorphic view of a God created in our image and embrace the mystery of consciousness in the process of evolution, so that we can truly experience Oneness not only with One another but with the Divine.
They include Ken Wilber's A Theory of Everything (2001), Mark Satin's Radical Middle (2004), David Korten's The Great Turning (2006), Steve McIntosh's Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (2007), Marilyn Hamilton's Integral City (2008), and Carter Phipps's Evolutionaries (2012).
He presents several interesting ideas about consciousness, but often fails to directly relate them to a specific view about the rise of consciousness through evolution.
Last, what is, in your view, the role of consciousness in the evolution of life, and where are we likely to go as a species in terms of the ongoing evolution of our consciousness?
This is what HBO wants us to see; the show produced by JJ Abrams that's billed as "a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin", and not a silly piece of fluff about scary robot cowboys and sexually traumatised background artists.
