Scarfe, Adam C. "On Religious Violence and Social Darwinism in the New Atheism: Toward a Critical Panselectionism." American Journal of Theology & Philosophy 31 no. 1 (January 2010): 53-70.
Abstract
The preceding critical analysis
has addressed significant problems in the writings of the New Atheists
concerning the omission of the study of religious violence as a natural
phenomenon, namely, as biotic violence, in their project to study
religion as a natural phenomenon, as well as their lack of development
of a comprehensive evolutionary ethic. As a response to these lacunae,
from the perspective of Whitehead's philosophy of organism, it has
alluded to the notion that organic selectivity, as a function of
natural selection, is at the root of biotic violence in general. It
further argues for an ethical stance that is based on the concept of
"nonreductionistic critical panselectionism," standing for the notion
that selectivity is part of the very fabric of the experience of
organism in general, but which holds that if humanity wished to build a
harmonious, peaceful, global civilization, every human being must
engage in a continuous critical reflection on their own selective
activities and on their impacts on other organisms.
[from Author's Conclusion]