Facets of Faith and Science: Vol. III: The Role of Beliefs in the Natural Sciences (Facets of Faith & Science, Band 3) - Softcover

Jitse Van Der Meer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819199915 ISBN 13: 9780819199911

Verlag: University Publishing Association, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

This third volume of Facets of Faith and Science presents case studies covering astronomy, biology, cosmology, and physics.
Chapters Include: The Role of Beliefs in Modern Cosmology; Rationalism, Voluntarism and Seventeeth Century Science; Newtons Rejection of the Newtonian World View: The Role of Divine Will in Newtons Natural Philosophy; Astronomy for the People: R.A. Proctor and the Popularization of the Victorian Universe; Physical Laws as Knowledge and Belief; On the Complexity of the Relationship between Astronomy and Religion: Jesuit Missionary-Astronomers in the Sixteenth and Seventeeth Centuries; Astral Piety, Astronomy, and Ethics in the Ancient Mediterranean; The Shroud of Turin: Resetting the Carbon-14 Clock; Newton and Christianity; Mind and Brain, Science and Religion: Comparing of the Work of Donald M. McKay and Roger W. Sperry; The Role of Theology in Current Evolutionary Reasoning; The Concept of the Open System: Another Machine Metaphor for the Organism?; The Concept of Hierarchy in Contemporary Systems Thinking: A Key to Overcoming Reductionism?; Control Hierarchies: A View of Life.

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• Verlag: University Publishing Association
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0819199915
• ISBN 13: 9780819199911
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 350
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