Origin and Evolution of the Universe: Evidence for Design? - Brossura

Robson, John M.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0773506187 ISBN 13: 9780773506183

Casa editrice: McGill Queens Univ, 1987

Riassunto

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 light of current scientific theories. Scientists in such diverse fields as cosmology, physics, geology, biology, and psychology provide syntheses of the state of their respective disciplines with regard to questions such as the origin or evolution of the universe and of life, the interaction of life and terrestrial environment, and verbal communication in prehumans. Contributions by philosophers cover such areas as arguments for a designer and the question of whether nature's laws and initial conditions could be viewed as "fine tuned" for the production of life. Many of the chapters demonstrate the awe-inspiring success of modern science in explaining the universe in terms of fairly straightforward natural laws, countering those versions of the design argument which try to find evidence of God's activities in the supposed failures of scientific laws to cover various phenomena.

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• Editore: McGill Queens Univ
• Data di pubblicazione: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0773506187
• ISBN 13: 9780773506183
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 320