Cosmos, Bios, Theos : Scientists Reflect on Science, Religion and the Origins of the Universe, Life, and Homo Sapiens
, by Margenau, Henry; Varghese, Roy Abraham
- ISBN: 9780812691863 | 0812691865
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 5/1/1992
| Preface | p. xiii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Astronomers, Mathematicians, and Physicists | p. 27 |
| Who Arranged for These Laws to Cooperate So Well? | p. 28 |
| The Origin of the Universe Is, and Always Will Be, a Mystery | p. 31 |
| Appeal to God May Be Required to Answer the Origin Question | p. 33 |
| How Is It Possible to Exclude Action Coming from a Transcendent Order of Being | p. 37 |
| Where Matter and Consciousness Came from Is Unknown | p. 40 |
| God Is a Characteristic of the Real Universe | p. 42 |
| What Forces Filled the Universe with Energy Fifteen Billion Years Ago? | p. 45 |
| There Need Be No Ultimate Conflict between Science and Religion | p. 50 |
| The Exquisite Order of the Physical World Calls for the Divine | p. 51 |
| Was It Planned, Is It Part of a Grander Scheme of Things? | p. 54 |
| The Laws of Nature Are Created by God | p. 57 |
| Science Will Never Give Us the Answers to All Our Questions | p. 64 |
| Religion and Science Both Proceed from Acts of Faith | p. 70 |
| Our Final Ineptitude at Producing a Rational Explanation of the Universe | p. 73 |
| A Feeling of Great Surprise That There Is Anything | p. 75 |
| Creation Is Supported by All the Data So Far | p. 78 |
| Science Asks What and How, While Religion Asks Why | p. 84 |
| Temporal Origin and Ontological Origin | p. 86 |
| I Have Difficulty Accepting that Matter Has Been in Existence Forever | p. 89 |
| Science and Religion: Reflections on Transcendence and Secularization | p. 93 |
| One Must Ask Why and Not Just How | p. 105 |
| The Origin of the Universe Does Not Seem to Me to Be a Scientific Question | p. 108 |
| The Universe Is Ultimately to Be Explained in Terms of a Metacosmic Reality | p. 111 |
| The Guidance of Evolution Lets God Appear to Us in Many Guises | p. 119 |
| The Question of Origin Seems Unanswered if We Explore from a Scientific View Alone | p. 122 |
| The Origin of the Universe Can Be Described Scientifically as a Miracle | p. 125 |
| There Is a Bohr Complementarity between Science and Religion | p. 127 |
| The Origin of Time Is Not in Time | p. 128 |
| The Origin of the Universe Is a Disturbing Mystery for Science | p. 131 |
| The Hidden Variables of Quantum Mechanics Are Under God's Power | p. 133 |
| Biologists and Chemists | p. 137 |
| There Exists an Incomprehensible Power with Limitless Foresight and Knowledge | p. 138 |
| The Existence of a Creator Represents a Satisfactory Solution | p. 141 |
| The Ultimate Truth Is God | p. 144 |
| The Mechanism of the World and the Why of It | p. 149 |
| The Origin of Life Seems Lost in the Details of Prebiotic Chemistry | p. 152 |
| The Entropic versus the Anthropic Principle | p. 155 |
| How Is It Possible to Escape the Idea of Some Intelligent and Organizing Force? | p. 157 |
| A Divine Design: Some Questions on Origins | p. 160 |
| Religion and Science Neither Exclude nor Prove One Another | p. 165 |
| The Creative Process May Well Be What We Observe, Deduce, and Call Evolution | p. 166 |
| At Some Stage in Evolution, God Created the Human Soul | p. 172 |
| A Spirit Which Has Established the Universe and Its Laws | p. 174 |
| I Have a Religious Attitude toward the Unknown | p. 177 |
| I Consider the Existence of God as Unknowable | p. 179 |
| I Have No Way of Knowing Whether God Exists | p. 181 |
| A Religious Impulse Guides Our Motive in Sustaining Scientific Inquiry | p. 184 |
| New Visions of the Cosmos | p. 185 |
| Nobel Prize Winners Are Not More Competent about God | p. 187 |
| The Universe Started from an Instability in the Quantum Vacuum | p. 188 |
| It Is Probably Impossible to Explain a Miracle with Physics and Chemistry | p. 193 |
| I Have Very Little in the Way of Belief in a Concrete God | p. 194 |
| The Piling of Coincidence on Coincidence | p. 197 |
| Life, Even in Bacteria, Is Too Complex to Have Occurred by Chance | p. 202 |
| Religion Is a Concern of the Human Spirit | p. 204 |
| In a Scientific Sense, We Know Very Little on the Origin of Life | p. 206 |
| I Do Not See How Science Can Shed Light on the Origins of Design | p. 209 |
| A Deeper Connectivity than the Mechanical Models of Our Current World View May Comprehend | p. 212 |
| The Existence of Some Creative Impulse at the Very Beginning | p. 214 |
| Life and Mind in the Universe | p. 218 |
| I Don't See How We Can Gather Empirical Evidence about How the Natural Order Itself Came into Being | p. 220 |
| The Existence of God and the Origin of the Universe: A Debate between an Atheist and a Theist | p. 225 |
| The Existence of the Universe as a Pointer to the Existence of God | p. 226 |
| Why the Existence of God Is Not Required to Explain the Existence of the Universe | p. 236 |
| Response to Flew | p. 239 |
| Response to Lewis | p. 241 |
| Comment on Lewis and Flew | p. 243 |
| One Word More | p. 248 |
| Another Word More | p. 250 |
| Concluding Comment | p. 251 |
| Concluding Scientific Postscripts | p. 253 |
| The Origin of the Universe in Science and Religion | p. 254 |
| Relativity, Quantum Theory, and the Mystery of Life | p. 270 |
| Glossary | p. 279 |
| Index | p. 281 |
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