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Creation : law and probability
- Title
- Creation : law and probability / edited by Fraser Watts.
- Publication
- Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, 2008.
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- Additional Authors
- Watts, Fraser N.
- Description
- x, 200 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "In an older, mechanical view of the universe, the place of God was assumed to be fixed and sovereign. But, in the latest hundred years, newer notions of randomness, indeterminism, and probability have sidelined older notions and the deity who ruled it. Fraser Watts leads a stellar cast of philosophers, scientists, and theologians in a state-of-the-art discussion of the relevance of contemporary scientific notions of lawfulness for vital matters in theology and philosophy." "The eleven contributors explore the relationship between law and probability within creation from a variety of disciplines - including history and philosophy, as well as theology and science - and in relation to a variety of different sciences, including cosmology, evolutionary biology, and neuroscience, as well as in dialogue with different faith traditions."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Theology and the sciences
- Uniform Title
- Theology and the sciences.
- Subject
- Religion and science
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. Concepts of Law and Probability in Theology and Science / Fraser Watts -- 2. The Development of the Concept of Laws of Nature / Peter Harrison -- 3. Contemporary Philosophical Concepts of Laws of Nature: The Quest for Broad Explanatory Consonance / Philip Clayton -- 4. Multiverses and Ultimate Causation / George F. R. Ellis -- 5. Laws of Physics, Principles of Self-Organization, and Natural Capacities: On Explaining a Self-Organizing World / Niels Henrik Gregersen -- 6. Chance and Evolution / Michael Ruse -- 7. Neuroscience, Determinism, and Downward Causation: Defusing the Free-Will Problem / Nancey Murphy -- 8. God and Probability / David J. Bartholomew -- 9. From Law and Chance in Nature to Ultimate Reality / Wesley J. Wildman -- 10. Creation, Law and Probability: A World Religions' Perspective / John Bowker -- Afterword: Some Further Reflections / John Polkinghorne.
- ISBN
- 9780800662783 (alk. paper)
- 0800662784 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007047103
- 40015411382
- OCLC
- ocn182621397
- 182621397
- SCSB-5407591
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries