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Informationen zum Autor Keith Ward is a Fellow of the British Academy, and Professorial Research Fellow at Heythrop College, London. He was formerly Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford, and is one of Britain's foremost writers on comparative theology and Christian issues. Klappentext The 'new materialism' argues that science and religious belief are incompatible. This books considers such arguments from cosmology (Stephen Hawking, Peter Atkins), from biology (Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins) and from socio-biology (Michael Ruse), and exposes a number of crucial fallacies and weaknesses. With a carefully argued, point by point refutation of scientific atheism, God, Chance and Necessity shows that modern scientific knowledge does not undermine belief in God, but actually points to the existence of God as the best explanation of how things are the way they are. Thus it sets out to demolish the claims of books like The Selfish Gene, and to show that the overwhelming appearance of design in nature is not deceptive. Zusammenfassung The 'new materialism' argues that science and religious belief are incompatible. This book considers such arguments from cosmology, from biology and from sociobiology and exposes a number of crucial fallacies and weaknesses. With a carefully argued, point by point refutation of scientific atheism, God, Chance and Necessity shows that modern scientific knowledge does not undermine belief in God, but actually points to the existence of God as the best explanation of how things are the way they are. Thus it sets out to demolish the claims of books like The Selfish Gene, and to show that the overwhelming appearance of design in nature is not deceptive. Inhaltsverzeichnis introduction 7 1 The origin of the species 15 2 Something for nothing: a dubious deal 34 3 is there any point? Where the universe is going 50 4. Darwin and natural selection 61 5.the metaphysics of theism 96 6. The elegance of the Life- plan 105 7. Evolution and purpose 131 8. Brains and consciousness 147 9. The future of evolution 167 10.Suffering and goodness 190 bibliography 205 Index 208...
