The Natural History of Creation: Biblical Evolutionism and the Return of Natural TheologyRowman and Littlefield, 1995 - 446 من الصفحات The Natural History of Creation is the third and final installment in M.A. Corey's natural theology series. This remarkable trilogy--the first of its kind in this century--has worked in tandem with the findings of modern science to help spearhead the rebirth of the natural theology movement around the world. Nowhere will the reader find a more thorough description of the many breathtaking parallels between our modern scientific picture of the creation of the universe and the poetic description of the creation in Genesis One. Contents: The Scientific Accuracy of Genesis One; The Rise of Humanity; Physical Anthropology and Intelligent Design; God and the Nature of Time; Morality and Evolution; Human Nature and the Divine Image; Genesis and Moderate Anthropocentrism; A Self-Created Universe?; Frank Tipler's Omega Point Theory; Divine Action and the Role of Natural Processes; A Contrived World; Evolution and the Nature of the Miraculous; Is Life an Accident?; On the Validity of Natural Theology; A Scientific Interpretation of the Divine Nature; Epilogue: Towards a Genuine Religious Ecology. |
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 1 |
THE SCIENTIFIC ACCURACY OF GENESIS ONE | 14 |
THE DARKNESS OF THE EARLY UNIVERSE | 27 |
THE CREATION OF PHOTOSYNTHETIC VEGETATION | 40 |
THE RECREATION OF THE SUN MOON AND STARS | 53 |
KILLER COMETS DOOMSDAY ASTEROIDS AND | 69 |
THE RISE OF HUMANITY | 84 |
THE EMERGENCE OF HOMO | 91 |
THE OMEGA POINT AS GOD | 261 |
SUMMARY | 272 |
GOD AND THE ORIGIN OF NATURES PHYSICAL LAWS | 279 |
A CONTRIVED WORLD | 286 |
THE INCREDIBLE COMPLEXITY OF THE CELL | 292 |
INFORMATION THEORY AND THE EXISTENCE OF LIFE | 298 |
A SCIENTIFIC RATIONALE FOR POSITING | 304 |
SUMMARY | 316 |
THE APPEARANCE OF HUMANITY | 99 |
PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY | 113 |
THE GARDEN OF EDEN? | 119 |
GOD AND THE NATURE OF TIME | 126 |
BIBLICAL DAYS AS COSMIC EPOCHS | 135 |
MORALITY AND EVOLUTION | 142 |
THE DOMINION OF HUMANITY | 152 |
DISCUSSION | 158 |
A SELFCREATED UNIVERSE? | 164 |
NATURAL SELECTION AND THE CALIBRATION OF THE CONSTANTS | 177 |
GRIBBINS ARGUMENT IN A NUTSHELL | 195 |
FRANK TIPLERS OMEGA POINT THEORY | 204 |
THEORIES OF PERSONAL IDENTITY | 220 |
EVIDENCE FOR THE SOUL | 244 |
QUANTUM CONSCIOUSNESS AND SCHRÖDINGERS CAT | 253 |
IS LIFE AN ACCIDENT? | 319 |
HUMANS CRAVE MEANING | 325 |
THE HOSTILITY OF LIFE | 331 |
EPISTEMOLOGICAL FREEDOM AND | 344 |
HOW MUCH CAN WE KNOW? | 353 |
A SCIENTIFIC INTERPRETATION | 359 |
AN EMPIRICALLYBASED INTERPRETATION | 365 |
TOWARD A SCIENTIFIC CONCEPT OF GOD | 381 |
POLLUTION AND THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION | 387 |
THE BIBLICAL VIEW | 396 |
THE NECESSARY CORRELATIVES OF VALUE AND POWER | 402 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 409 |
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR 447 | |
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