| Volume 6, Number 4, October 2009 |
World Mutation or Epochal Challenge?
by Yves Camus 赵仪文 |
How the Financial Crisis Has Highlighted
the Struggle of Migrant Workers
by 刘开明 Liu Kaiming |
THE year 2009 had not yet begun but scientific circles around the world were already busy preparing to celebrate two anniversaries: that of Charles Darwin’s birth (1809) and that of his main work On the Origin of the Species, published in 1859. Probably due to this occurrence, both notions of “evolution” and “creation” have again entered into a new spat of older controversies. One should equally remember the early ages of the Darwinian Theory...
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SINCE 2004, because of the increasing scarcity of workers in developed coastal areas and the Chinese government’s ongoing promotion of laws to improve workers’ rights,(1) migrant workers are better able to negotiate their wages in the labour market, workers’ wages are slowly but surely increasing and there are factories where working conditions have improved. But in October 2008, the outbreak of the global financial crisis proved a serious setback...
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The Background of Matteo Ricci, the Shaping of His Intellectual and Scientific Endowment
by Gianni Criveller 柯毅霖 |
The Impact of Darwinian Theory
on
Western Thought
by François Euvé 弗朗索瓦·厄韦 |
ON August 15th 1571, 19-year-old Matteo Ricci, arrived at the door of the St. Andrea novitiate at the Quirinale in Rome and was welcomed by Alessandro Valignano. Valignano had come to St. Andrea’s as a one-month replacement for the master of novices, Fr. Fabio de Fabii. Thus, the two future founders of the China mission met for the first time.
A strong bond of mutual esteem, friendship and solidarity was formed. They had a common vision and plan for the evangelization of China, and a human, religious and intellectual accord that is quite uncommon in modern missionary history...
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THE Darwinian theory of evolution is now widely received among scientists. The details of the theory are still hotly debated but the theory itself has received an enormous explanatory power since the first time it was formulated a century and a half ago. The scientific debates occur henceforth inside the frame of Darwinism (at times called “neo-Darwinism”).
The most obvious result of the Darwinian enterprise is that we have entered a global evolutionary view of the world. It is not only the case in the living world. Even matter in the so-called “inert” sense of the word is seen to be in the process of becoming...
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