Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion

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ReadHowYouWant.com, 29 de nov. de 2010 - 532 páginas
Consider the complexity of a living cell after 3.8 billion years of evolution. Is it more awesome to suppose that a transcendent God fashioned the cell at a stroke, or to realize that it evolved with no Almighty Hand, but arose on its own in the c...
 

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BEYOND REDUCTIONISM
1
REDUCTIONISM
15
THE PHYSICISTS REBEL
29
THE NONREDUCIBILITY OF BIOLOGY TO PHYSICS
48
THE ORIGIN OF LIFE
69
AGENCY VALUE AND MEANING
112
THE CYCLE OF WORK
136
ORDER FOR FREE
157
LIVING INTO MYSTERY
363
THE TWO CULTURES
389
BROKEN BONES
403
ETHICS EVOLVING
409
A GLOBAL ETHIC
431
GOD AND REINVENTING THE SACRED
443
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
457
NOTES
459

THE NONERGODIC UNIVERSE
188
BREAKING THE GALILEAN SPELL
202
THE EVOLUTION OF THE ECONOMY
236
MIND
279
THE QUANTUM BRAIN?
310
BIBLIOGRAPHY
485
Back Cover Material
488
Index
491
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Biophysicist Stuart A. Kauffman works at the University of Pennsylvania and is assocated with a think tank at the Santa Fe Institute. Kauffman has written At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity and The Origin of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution.

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