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| Titre : | Who Made God ? : Searching for a Theory of Everything |
| Auteurs : | Edgar Andrews, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Editeur : | Darlington - Carlisle [GB - USA] : EP Books, 2009 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-85234-707-2 |
| Format : | 303 p. |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Résumé : |
A book written by a distinguished scientist about the existence of God. which has chapter headings like 'Sooty and the universe', ‘Steam engine to the stars’ and 'The tidy pachyderm’, has to be different. It is. Addressing profound questions of science, philosophy and faith with an amazing lightness of touch, Edgar Andrews exposes the pretensions of the 'new atheism’ of Richard Dawkins and others, blending incisive arguments with gentle humour. As Fay Weldon writes, the result is ‘Thoughtful, readable, witty, wise ...’
However, the author's aim is not simply to raise a standard against the aggressive atheism of our age but to provide a logically consistent and altogether more satisfying alternative. He describes how his fellow physicists dream of discovering a ‘theory of everything' that will embrace every physical process and phenomenon in the cosmos. But he points out that there is more to existence than the material world — the things that make life worth living are mainly non-material. Can there, then, be a theory of everything that includes not only space, time, matter and energy but also the realms of the heart, mind, conscience and spirit? Yes, indeed, as this book shows. It is the hypothesis of God, a ‘theory’ that, in spite of its opponents, still towers above the barren landscape of atheism and despair. |
| Note de contenu : |
- To get you started ... Introduction - 1. Sooty and the universe. Who made God? - 2. Yogurt, cereal and toast. Can science explain everything? - 3. Stringing it all together. Searching for a theory of everything - 4. Pouring concrete. Foundations and hypotheses - 5. Ferrets and fallacies. A brief critique of God, the failed hypothesis - 6. Defining God. What do we mean by ‘God’? - 7. Starting with a bang. Cosmic origins - 8. Steam engine to the stars. Time and the hypothesis of God - 9. Peeling onions. The ubiquity of law in conscience, nature and society - 10. Cosmic chess. The origin of the laws of nature - 11. Over the moon. Natural law and miracles - 12. Information, stupid! The origin of life - 13. Life in a cake mixer. The origin of living organisms - 14. The tidy pachyderm. A critique of neo-Darwinianism - 15. The mighty mutation. Can mutations create? - 16. The second shoe. Man and his mind - 17. Man and his Maker. Man, morality and redemption - References and notes - Index |
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