Introduction -- Some early ideas on decay and creation -- Thermodynamics and the heat death -- The entropic creation argument -- Concepts of the universe -- Post-1920 developments -- Shadows from the past
Summary
Entropic Creation is the first book to consider the cultural and religious responses to the second law of thermodynamics, and the theory proposed by certain Christian scholars during the period 1860 to 1920 that the entropic creation argument is proof of a divine creation of the world
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-264) and index
