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Modern Physics and Ancient Faith /
A considerable amount of public debate and media print has been devoted to the "war between science and religion". In his accessible and readable book, Stephen M. Barr demonstrates that what is really at war with religion is not science itself, but a philosophy called scientific materialis...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Notre Dame, Ind. :
University of Notre Dame Press,
2003.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Conflict between religion and materialism: Materialist creed; Materialism as an anti-religious mythology; Scientific materialism and nature
- In the beginning: Expectations; How things looked one hundred years ago; The Big Bang; Was the Big Bang really the beginning?; What if the Big Bang was not the beginning? Is the Universe designed?: Argument from design; Attack on the argument from design; Design argument and the laws of nature; Symmetry and beauty in the laws of nature; What immortal hand or eye?
- Man's place in the cosmos: Expectations; Anthropic coincidences; Objections to the idea of anthropic coincidences; Alternative explanations of the anthropic coincidences; Why is the universe so big?
- What is man?: Issue; Determinism and free will; Can matter "Understand"?; Is the human mind just a computer?; What does the human mind have that computers lack?; Quantum theory and the mind; Alternatives to traditional quantum theory; Is a pattern emerging?
- Appendices: God, time, and creation; Attempts to explain the beginning scientifically; Godel's theorem.