Abstract:
It would appear that the epistemological tradition of the West is culminating in the
present science-religion debate. The evolutionary model is being used increasingly in different disciplines as a guideline to understand humans and their action in the world. The struggle for explaining the action of God has shifted from the world of history and texts to the invisible level of quantum physics and molecular biology.
It seems that levels of indeterminacy in quantum mechanics and autopoietic
systems offer space to explain the action of God. On the human level integrity is
sought by linking the highest level of consciousness and rationality to the very
basic level of molecular and genetic structures. These issues are dealt with and
specific attention is given to autopoietic systems and the biological roots of
rationality.
