God and Design - The Teleological Argument and Modern Science

Informationen zum Autor Neil A. Manson currently teaches at the Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame. A former Gifford Research Fellow in Natural Theology at the University of Aberdeen, he has a long-standing interest in the science and religion debate. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Recent discoveries have made the theory that God created the world according to a plan the object of renewed interest. This introduction includes new perspectives, from prominent scientists and philosophers. Inhaltsverzeichnis I GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS 1. The Design Argument 2. The Meaning of Design 3. The Design Inference: Old Wine in New Wineskins 4. God by Design 5. The Argument to God from Fine-tuning Reassessed 6. Perceiving Design II PHYSICAL COSMOLOGY 7. The Apperance of Design in Physics and Cosmology 8. Design and the Anthropic Fine-tuning of the Universe 9. Evidence for Fine-Tuning 10. Probabilities and the Fine-tuning Argument: A Skeptical View III MULTIPLE UNIVERSES 11. Other Universes: A Scientific Perspective 12. Too Many Universes 13. Fine-tuning and Multiple Universes 14. The Chance of the Gaps IV. BIOLOGY 15. The Modern Intelligent Design Hypothesis: Breaking Rules 16. Answering the Biochemical Argument from Design 17. Modern Biologists and the Argument from Design 18. Paradoxes of Evolution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe? 19. The Compatibility of Darwinism and Design

Product details

• Authors: Stanley A. Cohen, Neil A. Manson
• Assisted by: Neil A Manson (Editor), Neil A. Manson (Editor), Manson Neil A. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.01.2003
• EAN: 9780415263436
• ISBN: 978-0-415-26343-6
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Astronomy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Theologie, Christentum, RELIGION / General, Kosmologie und das Universum, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, Philosophy, RELIGION / Theology, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Philosophy of religion, Religion and science, Religion & science