The case for a Creator / Strobel, Lee 

Public ISBD Titre : The case for a Creator : a journalist investigates scientific evidence that points toward God Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Strobel, Lee, Auteur Editeur : Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan Année de publication : c2004 Importance : 341 p. Format : 22 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-310-24144-7 Note générale : Includes bibliographical references and Index. Langues : Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng) Catégories : God -- Proof, Cosmological. Religion and science. Index. décimale : BT 103 Résumé : Presents evidence that the world was created and designed by a higher power, describing the findings in a variety of fields, including biology, physics, astronomy, and cosmology, that point to the existence of a greater power and higher order that pervades nature. Note de contenu : White-coated scientists versus black-robed preachers -- The images of evolution -- Doubts about Darwinism : an interview with Jonathan Wells -- Where science meets faith : an interview with Stephen C. Meyer -- The evidence of cosmology : beginning with a bang : an interview with William Lane Craig -- The evidence of physics : the cosmos on a razor's edge : an interview with Robin Collins -- The evidence of astronomy : the privileged planet : an interview with Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay Wesley Richards -- The evidence of biochemistry : the complexity of molecular machines : an interview with Michael J. Behe -- The evidence of biological information : the challenge of DNA and the origin of life : an interview with Stephen C. Meyer -- The evidence of consciousness : the enigma of the mind : an interview with J.P. Moreland -- The cumulative case for a creator -- Appendix -- Deliberations : questions for reflection or group study. The case for a Creator : a journalist investigates scientific evidence that points toward God [texte imprimé] / Strobel, Lee, Auteur . - Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan, c2004 . - 341 p. ; 22 cm. ISBN : 978-0-310-24144-7 Includes bibliographical references and Index. Langues : Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng) Catégories : God -- Proof, Cosmological. Religion and science. Index. décimale : BT 103 Résumé : Presents evidence that the world was created and designed by a higher power, describing the findings in a variety of fields, including biology, physics, astronomy, and cosmology, that point to the existence of a greater power and higher order that pervades nature. Note de contenu : White-coated scientists versus black-robed preachers -- The images of evolution -- Doubts about Darwinism : an interview with Jonathan Wells -- Where science meets faith : an interview with Stephen C. Meyer -- The evidence of cosmology : beginning with a bang : an interview with William Lane Craig -- The evidence of physics : the cosmos on a razor's edge : an interview with Robin Collins -- The evidence of astronomy : the privileged planet : an interview with Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay Wesley Richards -- The evidence of biochemistry : the complexity of molecular machines : an interview with Michael J. Behe -- The evidence of biological information : the challenge of DNA and the origin of life : an interview with Stephen C. Meyer -- The evidence of consciousness : the enigma of the mind : an interview with J.P. Moreland -- The cumulative case for a creator -- Appendix -- Deliberations : questions for reflection or group study.

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The creator and the cosmos / Ross, Hugh 

Public ISBD Titre : The creator and the cosmos : how the greatest scientific discoveries of the century reveal God Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Ross, Hugh, Auteur Editeur : Colorado Springs, Colo. : Navpress Année de publication : c2001 Importance : 266 p. Présentation : Illustration Format : 23 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-57683-288-2 Note générale : Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Anthropic principle Creation God -- Proof, Cosmological. Index. décimale : BS 2088 The creator and the cosmos : how the greatest scientific discoveries of the century reveal God [texte imprimé] / Ross, Hugh, Auteur . - Colorado Springs, Colo. : Navpress, c2001 . - 266 p. : Illustration ; 23 cm. ISBN : 978-1-57683-288-2 Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Anthropic principle Creation God -- Proof, Cosmological. Index. décimale : BS 2088

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The fire in the equations / Ferguson, Kitty 

Public ISBD Titre : The fire in the equations : science, religion, and the search for God Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Ferguson, Kitty, Auteur Editeur : Grand Rapids, Mich. : W. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. Année de publication : c1995 Importance : 307 p. Présentation : illustrations (some color) Format : 24cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-8028-3805-6 Note générale : Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : God -- Proof, Cosmological. Knowledge, Theory of Religion and science Index. décimale : BL 240.3 The fire in the equations : science, religion, and the search for God [texte imprimé] / Ferguson, Kitty, Auteur . - Grand Rapids, Mich. : W. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., c1995 . - 307 p. : illustrations (some color) ; 24cm. ISBN : 978-0-8028-3805-6 Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : God -- Proof, Cosmological. Knowledge, Theory of Religion and science Index. décimale : BL 240.3

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God and the new cosmology / Corey, Michael Anthony 

Public ISBD Titre : God and the new cosmology : the anthropic design argument Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Corey, Michael Anthony, Auteur Editeur : Totowa, New Jersey : Rowman and Littlefield Année de publication : ©1993 Importance : xv, 332 p. Format : 23 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-8476-7802-0 Note générale : Includes bibliographical references and index Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Anthropic principle God -- Proof, Cosmological. God--Proof, Teleological Natural theology Religion and science Résumé : 'Given the excellent historical context in which Corey frames his case and the rational manner in which he closes off the loopholes, the stage is set for paradigm shift in the secular area. I highly Note de contenu : Introduction -- Overview -- The humanoid principle -- An anthropic or biocentric universe? -- A brief history of teleological thought -- Teleology, eutaxiology, and the concept of design -- Early background of teleological thought -- Greek and Roman philosophy -- Medieval philosophy -- Renaissance and early modern thought -- Eighteenth-century thought -- Nineteenth- and twentieth-century thought -- The influence of Darwinism on teleological thought -- The return to a scientific teleology -- Teleology and holism -- Conclusion -- The immediate background of the biocentric and anthropic principles -- Science acknowledges a beginning to the universe -- Evidence for the biocentric principle -- Where did the original evolving matter come from? -- Creation out of nothing? -- The cosmic prevalence of matter over antimatter -- The amount of matter in the universe and the rate of cosmic expansion -- The role of dark matter in cosmogenesis -- Evidence for the existence of dark matter -- The time frame for galaxy formation -- Big bang ripples: the "Holy Grail" of cosmology -- The roughness parameter -- The size of the universe -- The advantage of a sparse universe -- The temperature of nuclear stability -- The role of deuterium -- Design at the sub-atomic level -- Cosmic "coincidences" involving nature's fundamental constants -- Discussion -- Evidence for design in the invariant and cooperative aspects of nature's physical constants -- Cosmic repulsion -- Life and the degree of entropy in the universe -- The importance of the velocity of light in the evolution of life -- Photosynthesis and the surface temperature of the sun -- The historical increase of solar luminosity -- The transition to a non-toxic, oxidizing atmosphere -- Atmospheric oxygen maintenance -- The requirements for a stable water cycle -- The timing of the sun's T-Tauri wind -- The importance of the radio between photons and protons -- The smoothness of the microwave background -- The homogeneity of the universe -- Guth's inflationary hypothesis -- The marvel of intrastellar carbon formation -- The role of neutrinos and the weak nuclear force in the explosion of supernovae -- Large number coincidences -- The importance of three spatial dimensions for the evolution of life -- The existence of order vis-aÌ€-vis the second law of thermodynamics -- The three arrows of time -- The miracle of carbon -- The importance of nitrogen, sulfur, and phosphorus in biochemistry -- The miraculousness of water -- Discussion -- A tailor-made world -- The WAP and natural complexity -- The rapidity of life's evolution -- The relative size of the human body in the universal hierarchy of objects -- 5. Interpreting the evidence -- God and the nature of the quantum vacuum -- Value of the cosmological constant -- God and the primordial process of spontaneous symmetry breaking -- Inflation and contrivance -- Can inflation solve the horizon problem? -- Singularities in view of the divine -- What happened before the big bang? -- The creation of space and time at the beginning -- Additional biblical parallels with modern cosmology -- The miracle of perfect universal balance -- The mind of God and Bohm's concept of the implicate order -- Contrivance and the second law of thermodynamics -- Order out of disorder? -- God and the existence of self-generated order -- Natural selection and the origin of life -- A cosmic blueprint? -- The empirical nature of the biocentric principle. Making sense of the "coincidences" -- The probabilistic significance of the cosmic "coincidences" -- Coincidence or contrivance? -- Cosmic coincidences and the odds surrounding the evolution of life -- A Humean objection -- Alternative viewpoints -- The many worlds interpretation of the weak anthropic principle -- Campbell's criticism of the WAP -- The sum over histories interpretation -- The Genesis paradox resolved -- Murphy's law and the anthropic design argument -- The SAP to the rescue -- The equivalence of the SAP with the traditional concept of intelligent design -- A theistic interpretation of quantum mechanics -- God and Stephen Hawking's proposed no boundary condition to the universe -- What is there for God to do in the universe? -- Ours as one of the best of all possible worlds -- A proof for God? -- Varieties of proofs -- Data coherence and causality -- A probabilistic proof for the existence of God -- Scientific proof for a creator? -- The acceptability of indirect scientific evidence -- Scientific truth via the process of elimination -- Deducing the existence of God from the intelligence of the creation -- Holistic proof for the existence of God -- The overall case for intelligent design -- An anthropic or biocentric universe? -- Argument for an anthropic interpretation of the cosmological evidence -- The legitimacy of the moderate anthropocentric perspective -- Anthropocentrism in light of the weak and strong anthropic principles -- The WAP and the existence of extraterrestrial intelligences -- Solar eclipses and the size of the moon -- The prospect of divine omnipotence -- Creation ex nihilo -- The self-existence of God vs. the self-existence of matter -- Supernatural naturalism -- Modern cosmology and the adequacy of the process God -- Is the present universe worthy of a divine creator? -- God's true nature -- The case for natural theology -- The natural theologian's claims -- Natural theology and the threat from naturalistic evolution -- Response to Hume -- Kant's objections to the argument from design -- Is theistic belief falsifiable? -- The positive function of the natural atheologian's criticisms -- Conclusion -- Faith and the modern scientist -- Apologetics and the role of faith -- The origin of our modern concept of faith -- Epilogue: A call for a new type of scientifically minded universal theorist -- Appendix: In defense of the big bang: a theistic response to Eric J. Lerner's infinitely old plasma universe. God and the new cosmology : the anthropic design argument [texte imprimé] / Corey, Michael Anthony, Auteur . - Totowa, New Jersey : Rowman and Littlefield, ©1993 . - xv, 332 p. ; 23 cm. ISBN : 978-0-8476-7802-0 Includes bibliographical references and index Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Anthropic principle God -- Proof, Cosmological. God--Proof, Teleological Natural theology Religion and science Résumé : 'Given the excellent historical context in which Corey frames his case and the rational manner in which he closes off the loopholes, the stage is set for paradigm shift in the secular area. I highly Note de contenu : Introduction -- Overview -- The humanoid principle -- An anthropic or biocentric universe? -- A brief history of teleological thought -- Teleology, eutaxiology, and the concept of design -- Early background of teleological thought -- Greek and Roman philosophy -- Medieval philosophy -- Renaissance and early modern thought -- Eighteenth-century thought -- Nineteenth- and twentieth-century thought -- The influence of Darwinism on teleological thought -- The return to a scientific teleology -- Teleology and holism -- Conclusion -- The immediate background of the biocentric and anthropic principles -- Science acknowledges a beginning to the universe -- Evidence for the biocentric principle -- Where did the original evolving matter come from? -- Creation out of nothing? -- The cosmic prevalence of matter over antimatter -- The amount of matter in the universe and the rate of cosmic expansion -- The role of dark matter in cosmogenesis -- Evidence for the existence of dark matter -- The time frame for galaxy formation -- Big bang ripples: the "Holy Grail" of cosmology -- The roughness parameter -- The size of the universe -- The advantage of a sparse universe -- The temperature of nuclear stability -- The role of deuterium -- Design at the sub-atomic level -- Cosmic "coincidences" involving nature's fundamental constants -- Discussion -- Evidence for design in the invariant and cooperative aspects of nature's physical constants -- Cosmic repulsion -- Life and the degree of entropy in the universe -- The importance of the velocity of light in the evolution of life -- Photosynthesis and the surface temperature of the sun -- The historical increase of solar luminosity -- The transition to a non-toxic, oxidizing atmosphere -- Atmospheric oxygen maintenance -- The requirements for a stable water cycle -- The timing of the sun's T-Tauri wind -- The importance of the radio between photons and protons -- The smoothness of the microwave background -- The homogeneity of the universe -- Guth's inflationary hypothesis -- The marvel of intrastellar carbon formation -- The role of neutrinos and the weak nuclear force in the explosion of supernovae -- Large number coincidences -- The importance of three spatial dimensions for the evolution of life -- The existence of order vis-aÌ€-vis the second law of thermodynamics -- The three arrows of time -- The miracle of carbon -- The importance of nitrogen, sulfur, and phosphorus in biochemistry -- The miraculousness of water -- Discussion -- A tailor-made world -- The WAP and natural complexity -- The rapidity of life's evolution -- The relative size of the human body in the universal hierarchy of objects -- 5. Interpreting the evidence -- God and the nature of the quantum vacuum -- Value of the cosmological constant -- God and the primordial process of spontaneous symmetry breaking -- Inflation and contrivance -- Can inflation solve the horizon problem? -- Singularities in view of the divine -- What happened before the big bang? -- The creation of space and time at the beginning -- Additional biblical parallels with modern cosmology -- The miracle of perfect universal balance -- The mind of God and Bohm's concept of the implicate order -- Contrivance and the second law of thermodynamics -- Order out of disorder? -- God and the existence of self-generated order -- Natural selection and the origin of life -- A cosmic blueprint? -- The empirical nature of the biocentric principle. Making sense of the "coincidences" -- The probabilistic significance of the cosmic "coincidences" -- Coincidence or contrivance? -- Cosmic coincidences and the odds surrounding the evolution of life -- A Humean objection -- Alternative viewpoints -- The many worlds interpretation of the weak anthropic principle -- Campbell's criticism of the WAP -- The sum over histories interpretation -- The Genesis paradox resolved -- Murphy's law and the anthropic design argument -- The SAP to the rescue -- The equivalence of the SAP with the traditional concept of intelligent design -- A theistic interpretation of quantum mechanics -- God and Stephen Hawking's proposed no boundary condition to the universe -- What is there for God to do in the universe? -- Ours as one of the best of all possible worlds -- A proof for God? -- Varieties of proofs -- Data coherence and causality -- A probabilistic proof for the existence of God -- Scientific proof for a creator? -- The acceptability of indirect scientific evidence -- Scientific truth via the process of elimination -- Deducing the existence of God from the intelligence of the creation -- Holistic proof for the existence of God -- The overall case for intelligent design -- An anthropic or biocentric universe? -- Argument for an anthropic interpretation of the cosmological evidence -- The legitimacy of the moderate anthropocentric perspective -- Anthropocentrism in light of the weak and strong anthropic principles -- The WAP and the existence of extraterrestrial intelligences -- Solar eclipses and the size of the moon -- The prospect of divine omnipotence -- Creation ex nihilo -- The self-existence of God vs. the self-existence of matter -- Supernatural naturalism -- Modern cosmology and the adequacy of the process God -- Is the present universe worthy of a divine creator? -- God's true nature -- The case for natural theology -- The natural theologian's claims -- Natural theology and the threat from naturalistic evolution -- Response to Hume -- Kant's objections to the argument from design -- Is theistic belief falsifiable? -- The positive function of the natural atheologian's criticisms -- Conclusion -- Faith and the modern scientist -- Apologetics and the role of faith -- The origin of our modern concept of faith -- Epilogue: A call for a new type of scientifically minded universal theorist -- Appendix: In defense of the big bang: a theistic response to Eric J. Lerner's infinitely old plasma universe.

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Intelligent design / Dembski, William A. 

Public ISBD Titre : Intelligent design : the bridge between science & theology Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Dembski, William A., Auteur Editeur : Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press Année de publication : c1999 Importance : 312 p. Présentation : Illustration Format : 23 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-8308-1581-4 Note générale : Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : God -- Proof, Cosmological. Intelligent design (Theology) Religion and science Index. décimale : BL 240.2 Intelligent design : the bridge between science & theology [texte imprimé] / Dembski, William A., Auteur . - Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, c1999 . - 312 p. : Illustration ; 23 cm. ISBN : 978-0-8308-1581-4 Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : God -- Proof, Cosmological. Intelligent design (Theology) Religion and science Index. décimale : BL 240.2

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