The Templeton Science and Religion Reader.

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TextSeries: Templeton science and religion seriesPublication details: Templeton Press 2012.Description: 1 online resource (260 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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1283847485
9781283847483
1599474182
9781599474182

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

201/.65 23

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BL240.3.T44 2012

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Contents:

Cover; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: Case for the Big Bang; Chapter 2: Rocks, Time, Fossils, and Life Itself; Chapter 3: From Deluge to Biogeography; Chapter 4: The Human Primate: A Quantum Leap?; Chapter 5: How Genetics Rescued Darwinian Evolution; Chapter 6: How We Conceive of the Divine; Chapter 7: On Math and Metaphysical Language; Chapter 8: Between Cyberspace and the New Alchemy; Chapter 9: Medicine Meets Modern Spirituality; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Index.

Summary: Our attempts to understand the world around us are greatly advanced by scientific research, which holds nearly unlimited potential to address our questions of what? and how? Some scientific fields, however, seem to take a hands-off approach to the big question of why? Why does the universe work the way it does? Why do our brains make us think certain thoughts or feel certain sensations? Why did we evolve the way we did? Some fundamental scientific understanding is necessary before one can venture too deeply into these types of inquiries, which almost ine.

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Our attempts to understand the world around us are greatly advanced by scientific research, which holds nearly unlimited potential to address our questions of what? and how? Some scientific fields, however, seem to take a hands-off approach to the big question of why? Why does the universe work the way it does? Why do our brains make us think certain thoughts or feel certain sensations? Why did we evolve the way we did? Some fundamental scientific understanding is necessary before one can venture too deeply into these types of inquiries, which almost ine.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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