A Case Against Accident and Self-Organization - Brossura

Overman, Dean L.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0742511677 ISBN 13: 9780742511675

Casa editrice: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001

Riassunto

In this illuminating book, Dean L. Overman uses logical principles and mathematical calculations to answer intriguing questions that have long perplexed biologists and astrophysicists.

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L'autore:

Dean L. Overman is the senior partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Winston & Strawn, a large international law firm. He is the coauthor of several law books, the author of many law review articles on banking, commercial, corporate, tax, and securities laws, the author of a book on effective writing, and an Adjunct Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Product Description:

Is it mathematically possible that accidental processes caused the formation of the first form of living matter from non-living matter? Could accidental processes have caused the formation of a universe compatible with life? Are current self-organization scenarios for the formation of the first living matter permissible? The author reviews the influence of metaphysical assumptions in logical analysis, and discusses the principles of logic applicable to these questions, examining the limitations of verbal and mathematical logic. Dean Overman then procceds to demonstrate that it is mathematically impossible that accidental processes produced the first living matter. The text also exaines other issues related to the creation of the universe, including Stephen Hawking's no boundary proposal, the need for a "Creator" as the preserving cause of the universe, and the explanations offered by the weak and strong anthropic principles.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0742511677
• ISBN 13: 9780742511675
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272