Sacrifice: bringins evolution and religion together?

Many links have been made between religion and science or, actually, have tried to make. In this specific article, the link is made through sacrifice; in our conception, a very irrational and savage practice. In this sense, Sarah Coakley, in his inaugural lecture in Cambridge, critics the Girard conception about sacrifice; in specific the base upon his theory is made, that is to say, that the conflict is provoked because we humans desire the same things. She starts on the base of evolutionary theory.

His conception of sacrifice is made thanks to the collaboration with Martin Nowak, professor of biology and mathematics at Harvard University. They start on the basis of a new principle in evolution: the co-operation, in other words, the advantage of fitness given to other individuals in deterioration of his own. This principle is much related to the results of others scientist, like Lynn Margulis, in which the evolution of eukaryotic organisms is originated by a process of symbiosis. The radical argument, for this to be a totally new hypothesis in evolution, is that the individual advantage cannot explain the process of co-operation.

Coakley made is essential point in that in the history of evolution you can read along a principle of co-operation, a line of sacrifice. Finally Coakley hope that these concepts of co-operation and sacrifice will bring evolution and theology together starting on the basis that this two operate in parallel worlds.

What to do / Where to go in Santiago

I was born in Santiago, in the J.J. Aguirre Hospital. In my early childhood we lived in a lot of places, renting or living with close relatives. Then my parents were able to bought his own house in Puente Alto, there I was bred and I been living there almost all my life.

You can visit a lot of places with historical and cultural content, like “la moneda”, a lot of museums and parks. Depending of your particular interests you can visit some of them.

For a tourist, the choice is more complex; because you have to think that a lot of places he/she can visit in his/her own country, for that reason it must be places with a unique thing. If you like to do outdoors activities those places, in my opinion, are Santa Lucia and San Cristobal hills, there you can walk and spend a relaxing time. If you like museums, good choices are Bellas Artes or the National Museum of Natural History. In the Bellas Artes museum you can visit a lot of expositions, permanents or temporal, just like the National Museum of Natural History.