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UNINA9910463326003321 |
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Titolo |
The Templeton science and religion reader [[electronic resource] /] / edited by J. Wentzel van Huyssteen and Khalil Chamcham |
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West Conshohocken, PA., : Templeton Press, c2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-84748-5 |
1-59947-418-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (260 p.) |
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Collana |
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Templeton science and religion series |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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ChamchamKhalil |
Van HuyssteenJ. Wentzel <1942-> (Jacobus Wentzel) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Religion and science |
Science |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: Case for the Big Bang; Chapter 2: Rocks, Time, Fossils, and Life Itself; Chapter 3: From Deluge to Biogeography; Chapter 4: The Human Primate: A Quantum Leap?; Chapter 5: How Genetics Rescued Darwinian Evolution; Chapter 6: How We Conceive of the Divine; Chapter 7: On Math and Metaphysical Language; Chapter 8: Between Cyberspace and the New Alchemy; Chapter 9: Medicine Meets Modern Spirituality; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Our attempts to understand the world around us are greatly advanced by scientific research, which holds nearly unlimited potential to address our questions of what? and how? Some scientific fields, however, seem to take a hands-off approach to the big question of why? Why does the universe work the way it does? Why do our brains make us think certain thoughts or feel certain sensations? Why did we evolve the way we did? Some fundamental scientific understanding is necessary before one can venture too deeply into these types of inquiries, which almost ine |
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