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Debbie Warrier with Fr Brendan Purcell: exploring human origins through philosophy

I joined the seminary in 1960, got a BA at University College Dublin and was sent to do theology at the Lateran University in Rome. I’d done well in Philosophy, so after ordination found myself teaching philosophical anthropology (what a human being is) back at the University College Dublin. I enjoyed the nearly 40 years teaching I did there. Along the way I picked up a PhD in psychology on the theory of human relationships. The courses I was teaching led me to finally finish a book due out this year called From Big Bang to Big Mystery: Human Origins in the light of Creation and Evolution. In it I explore where human beings come from and trace the material part of our origins from the Big Bang through to evolution, including the almost 7 million year hominid sequence up to the first humans in Africa over 150,000 years ago. I also try to explain what paleontologists and archaeologists call ‘the Big Bang of Human Consciousness’ by exploring human origins from a philosophical perspective. I focused on a few things, like what I called ‘boundary questions’ - the issues that are raised by the natural sciences but can’t be answered by them. The Big Bang is the best example, since astrophysics makes it hard to avoid the ‘why is there something rather than nothing?’ question. And I’m suggesting there’s an even bigger boundary question when we come to the origins of human beings. So I’ve four chapters on what makes humans different from animals (in terms of our genetic origins, our brain and vocal tracts, our use of language and symbolisation, and our capacity to understand and make free choices). The book’s come out not just from courses I have taught, but also from a look at how some modern philosophers - in Europe and sometimes in the US - have focused on the person as the source of their philosophy. (Karol Wojtyla’s The Acting Person and his famous series of reflections on the theology of the body are a great example of this kind of approach in the contemporary Church). While still living in Ireland I was very often involved in radio and TV interviews.  What I was interviewed on included my awareness that while the West has had plenty of ‘liberty,’ and the former Eastern bloc countries and still China, enforced ‘equality,’ we got rampant individualism in the West and totalitarian dictatorship in the East and in China.

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