Cosmos, Bios, Theos: Scientists Reflect on Science, God, and the Origins of the Universe, Life, and Homo Sapiens

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Henry Margenau, Roy Abraham Varghese
Open Court, 1992 - 285 páginas
Cosmos, Bios, Theos contains the varied and exciting replies of 60 leading scientists (including 24 Nobel prizewinners) to the following six questions: What do you think should be the relationship between religion and science? What is your view on the origin of the universe: both on a scientific level and -- if you see the need -- on a metaphysical level? What is your view on the origin of life: both on a scientific level and -- if you see the need -- on a metaphysical level? What is your view on the origin of Homo sapiens? How should science -- and the scientist -- approach origin questions, specifically the origin of the universe and the origin of life? Many prominent scientists -- including Darwin, Einstein, and Planck -- have considered the concept of God very seriously. What are your thoughts on the concept of God and on the existence of God?

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MAIN
1
Who Arranged for These Laws to Cooperate So Well?
28
How Is It Possible to Exclude Action Coming from
37
What Forces Filled the Universe with Energy Fifteen Billion
45
There Need Be No Ultimate Conflict between Science
50
The Laws of Nature Are Created by God
57
Science Will Never Give Us the Answers to All
64
Religion and Science Both Proceed from Acts of Faith
70
The Existence of a Creator Represents a Satisfactory
141
The Mechanism of the World and the Why of It
149
The Origin of Life Seems Lost in the Details of Prebiotic
152
Some Questions on Origins
160
The Creative Process May Well Be What We Observe Deduce
166
At Some Stage in Evolution God Created the Human
172
A Religious Impulse Guides Our Motive in Sustaining
184
It Is Probably Impossible to Explain a Miracle with Physics
193

Creation Is Supported by All the Data So Far
78
Science Asks What and How While Religion Asks Why
84
Temporal Origin and Ontological Origin
86
Reflections on Transcendence
93
One Must Ask Why and Not Just How
105
The Universe Is Ultimately to Be Explained in Terms of
111
The Guidance of Evolution Lets God Appear to Us in Many
119
The Origin of the Universe Can Be Described Scientifically
125
There Is a Bohr Complementarity between Science
127
The Hidden Variables of Quantum Mechanics Are Under
133
Life Even in Bacteria Is Too Complex to Have Occurred
202
Religion Is a Concern of the Human Spirit
204
A Deeper Connectivity than the Mechanical Models of
212
Life and Mind in the Universe
218
PART THREE
225
Why the Existence of God Is Not Required to Explain
236
Response to Flew
239
The Origin of the Universe in Science and Religion
254
Relativity Quantum Theory and the Mystery of Life
270
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