Astrophysics and Creation: Perceiving the Universe Through Science and Participation - Softcover

Benz, Arnold O.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0824599373 ISBN 13: 9780824599379

Verlag: CROSSROAD PUB, 2019

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"A sparkling gem lying in a vast field of books of science and religion. Reading it is a religious experience in itself."--Jesse Thomas, author of The Youniverse: The Spirit of the Twenty First Century

"Benz, an eminent scientist, describes brilliantly the wonders revealed by modern astronomy about the origin and structure of galaxies, stars and planets. But he also demonstrates with great clarity how other levels of reality lying in a different plane or dimension are an equally important part of human experience and a search for meaning." --Eric R. Priest FRSE FRS, University of St. Andrews, UK, renowned physicist, mathematician, and author

"In this beautiful and at times deeply moving reflection Arnold Benz affirms the human quest for meaning, a quest that can never be satisfied solely within the boundaries of science, but requires our engagement and our awe in the presence of an amazing reality of which we are a part, and to which we belong." --Christopher Bryan, Professor for New Testament, University of the South, Sewanee, USA, author of The Resurrection of the Messiah and Listening to the Bible

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Written by a prominent and active scientist, this book, based on personal experience and biblical theology, does not try to derive God's existence from science. It is critical of scientific inferences on the notion of God (Natural Theology). Cosmic fine-tuning and other coincidences are no proof of the divine, but they are astounding and have never been fully explained. Amazement, therefore, is the appropriate emotional perception of reality. Human life, the beauty of nature, and the habitability of planet Earth can be considered undeserved gifts. In the light of these gifts, the universe is metaphorically interpreted and existentially believed, by many, to be a divine Creation. Science cannot create such faith, but it can foster it. This volume asks: Is God necessary to explain the universe? Is the idea of a Creator excluded by modern science? Why continue speaking of a Creator and to believe in His continuing creation, when God cannot be demonstrated in scientific data? Arnold Benz, a renowned astrophysicist and Christian, insists that human perception reaches further than science and demonstrates this in various examples—personal, biblical, and literary.

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• Verlag: CROSSROAD PUB
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0824599373
• ISBN 13: 9780824599379
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 144