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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450800203321

Titolo

God and design : the teleological argument and modern science / / [edited by] Neil A. Manson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

0-415-26344-1

1-134-57460-6

1-280-07926-6

0-203-39826-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (394 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MansonNeil A. <1967->

Disciplina

212/.1

Soggetti

Teleology

Religion and science

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The design argument / Elliott Sober -- The meaning of design / John Leslie -- The design inference : old wine in new wineskins / Robert O'Connor -- God by design? / Jan Narveson -- The argument to God from fine-tuning reassessed / Richard Swinburne -- Perceiving design / Del Ratzsch -- The appearance of design in physics and cosmology / Paul Davies -- Design and the anthropic fine-tuning of the universe / William Lane Craig -- Evidence for fine-tuning / Robin Collins -- Probabilities and the fine-tuning argument : a skeptical view / Timothy McGrew, Lydia McGrew, and Eric Vestrup -- Other universes : a scientific perspective / Martin Rees -- Too many universes / D.H. Mellor -- Fine-tuning and multiple universes / Roger White -- The chance of the gaps / William Dembski -- The modern intelligent design hypothesis : breaking rules / Michael Behe -- Answering the biochemical argument from design / Kenneth R. Miller -- Modern biologists and the argument from design / Michael Ruse -- The paradoxes of evolution : inevitable humans in a lonely universe? / Simon Conway Morris -- The compatibility of Darwinism and design / Peter van Inwagen.



Sommario/riassunto

Recent discoveries in physics, cosmology, and biochemistry have captured the public imagination and made the Design Argument - the theory that God created the world according to a specific plan - the object of renewed scientific and philosophical interest. This accessible but serious introduction to the design problem brings together new perspectives from prominent scientists and philosophers including Paul Davies, Richard Swinburne, Sir Martin Rees, Michael Behe, Elliot Sober and Peter van Inwagen.It probes the relationship between modern science and religious belief, considering their po

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Record Nr.

UNISA996202957503316

Titolo

Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[London?], : Portland Press

ISSN

1470-8744

Disciplina

660/.6

Soggetti

Biotechnology

Biochemical engineering

Biochemistry

Genetic Techniques

Microbiological Techniques

Periodical

Periodicals.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed

Published by Portland Press on behalf of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB).