| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 377 pages, 4 pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Renaissance in language -- Poststructuralism and a renaissance future? -- Simplicity, cosmology and Ockham's razor? -- Ending poststructuralism? -- Counter-intuitive Renaissance -- Metaphoric cosmology -- The scope of relevance? -- The freedom to question -- Calculated madness -- The realism of metaphor -- Past reality -- Live metaphor -- Eschatology and values -- The expression of God in language -- Imitation and meaning -- God manifestation -- Simulating subjects -- Reproduction logic -- Indeterminate theology -- Theological names -- The variable value of believing -- Astronomical beliefs and intentions -- Live metaphoric 'revelation'? -- All in God's space--time? -- Extending scientific languages -- Being scientific? -- Magnetic poles and monopoles -- Monopoles in cosmology -- Scientific dimensions of live-metaphor -- Space--time -- Counter-intuition -- Strings of dimensions -- Schizoid live-metaphor? -- Cosmic strings -- What is metal? -- The double mirror -- The cosmological constant -- Counter-intuitive creativity -- The beginning of the matter -- Points about manifolds -- Language about beginning -- Observation and infinity -- Observation and generality -- Noting superstrings -- Uniformity and matter -- Supermassive black hole realism -- Causal originality -- Causality and indeterminacy -- The cosmology of life -- The beginning of life -- Biology and entropy -- The cosmology of devolution -- Cancer and evolution -- Prediction and the cosmology of God -- Live metaphors of transcendence -- Prediction |
| Summary |
Ambitious, controversial and absorbing, God and the Universe tackles the highly-charged issue of God's relevance in the light of new scientific thinking on cosmology. Engaging with poststructuralism, ethics, mathematics, and philosophy through the ages, this persuasively argued book reinvigorates religious debate for the new millennium |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-362) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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God.
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Cosmology.
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Religion and science.
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Religion and Science
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cosmology.
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08.37 philosophy of religion.
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RELIGION -- General.
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Cosmology
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God
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Religion and science
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God.
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Kosmos.
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Geloof en wetenschap.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136365652 |
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1136365656 |
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9781315011394 |
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1315011395 |
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