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The constant fire : beyond the science vs. religion debate /
"Eloquent, urgent, and inspiring, The Constant Fire tackles the acrimonious debate between science and religion, taking us beyond its stagnant parameters into the wider domain of human spiritual experience. From a Neolithic archaeological site in Ireland to modern theories of star formation, Ad...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
c2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- House of the rising sun
- I: The map: reimagining science, myth, and the sacred
- The roots of conflict: science and religion before divorce
- The conflict we know: religion, science, and the modern world
- Science and the sacred: telescopes, microscopes, and hierophanies
- Not the God you pray to: the varieties of scientists' religious experience
- Science, myth, and sacred narratives: the universe as story
- II: The terrain: sacred narratives in science and myth
- The origin of everything: big bangs, the multiverse, and the parade of ants
- The deluge this time: climate change and flood myths
- III: A new path to the waterfall: science, myth, truth, and the future
- Music of the spheres: truth, myth, and science
- A need born of fire: mythos, ethos, and humanity's most dangerous century
- Epilogue: fire in the open mind.