Origin and evolution of the universe : evidence for design? /
Does the universe have the character it has because of design? In this collection of essays first presented at a symposium sponsored by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and the Royal Society of Canada, seventeen scientists and philosophers re-examine the "Argument by Design" in...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Kingston :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
[1987]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Alan H. Batten
- The "purpose" of chance in light of the physical basis of evolution / Robert H. Haynes
- The gene seemed as inaccessible as the materials of the galaxies / Barry W. Glickman
- From selfish DNA to Gaia: one molecular biologist's view of the evolutionary process / W. Ford Doolittle
- The large-scale structure of the universe / P.J.E. Peebles
- Of stars, planets, and life / Michael W. Ovenden
- Is the physical universe natural / W.G. Unruh
- Coincidences: mundane and cosmological / Ian Hacking
- Diretionalite, intentionnalite, et analogie dans l'approche de l'univers / Jean-Paul Audet
- The ecopoiesis of Daisy World / James E. Lovelock
- The earth and its life: geologic record of interactions and controls / Jan Veizer
- An anthropocentric view of the universe: evidence from geology / Digby J. McLaren
- Origin of consciousness / Richard Swinburne
- The origin of human communication / Doreen Kimura
- More gaps for God? / Hugo Meynell
- In the beginning is the dance of love / Ravi Ravindra
- Science, design, and ambiguity: concluding reflections / Terence Penelhum.