02954nam 2200613Ia 450 991046332600332120200520144314.01-283-84748-51-59947-418-2(CKB)2670000000279236(EBL)1076188(OCoLC)820123163(SSID)ssj0000784401(PQKBManifestationID)12336367(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000784401(PQKBWorkID)10762012(PQKB)10720175(MiAaPQ)EBC1076188(MiAaPQ)EBC6233025(Au-PeEL)EBL1076188(CaPaEBR)ebr10629322(CaONFJC)MIL415998(EXLCZ)99267000000027923620120420d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Templeton science and religion reader[electronic resource] /edited by J. Wentzel van Huyssteen and Khalil ChamchamWest Conshohocken, PA. Templeton Pressc20121 online resource (260 p.)Templeton science and religion seriesDescription based upon print version of record.1-59947-393-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexOur 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 ineTempleton science and religion series.Religion and scienceScienceElectronic books.Religion and science.Science.201.65Chamcham Khalil992069Van Huyssteen J. Wentzel(Jacobus Wentzel),1942-992070MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463326003321The Templeton science and religion reader2270465UNINA