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基本説明
Including perspectives from prestigious contributors, and published with the backing of the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR), Creation: Law and Probability employs the disciplines of history and philosophy, as well as cosmology, evolutionary biology and neuroscience; in a fascinating dialogue of different faith traditions.
Full Description
How can we reconcile assumptions about the lawfulness of the universe with provision for chance events? Do the 'laws of nature' indicate what absolutely must happen, or just what is most likely to happen? These important questions for both science and theology, and are explored here in the first in-depth coverage of important but neglected topic.Including perspectives from prestigious contributors, and published with the backing of the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR), "Creation: Law and Probability" employs the disciplines of history and philosophy, as well as cosmology, evolutionary biology and neuroscience; in a fascinating dialogue of different faith traditions.
Contents
Preface; Concepts of law and probability in theology and science, Fraser Watts; The development of the concept of laws of nature, Peter Harrison; Contemporary philosophical concepts of laws of nature: the quest for broad explanatory consonance, Philip Clayton; Multiverses and ultimate causation, George Ellis; Laws of physics, principles of self-organization, and natural capacities: on explaining a self-organizing world, Niels Gregersen; Chance and evolution, Michael Ruse; Neuroscience, determinism, and downward causation, Nancey Murphy; God and probability, David Bartholomew; From law and chance in nature to ultimate reality, Wesley Wildman; Creation, law and probability: a world religions' perspective, John Bowker; Afterword: some further reflections, John Polkinghorne; Index.
