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Creation

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Creation book

Law and Probability

Creation

DOI link for Creation

Creation book

Law and Probability
Edited ByFraser Watts
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2008
eBook Published 17 December 2018
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429463525
Pages 210 pages
eBook ISBN 9780429463525
SubjectsSocial Sciences
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Watts, F. (Ed.). (2008). Creation. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429463525

Published in 1999. How can we reconcile assumptions about the lawfulness of the universe with provision for chance events? Do the ‘laws of nature’ indicate what absolutely must happen, or just what is most likely to happen? These are important questions for both science and theology, and are explored here in the first in-depth coverage of an important but neglected topic.

Including perspectives from prestigious contributions, and published with the backing of the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR), Creation: Law and Probability employs the disciplines of history and philosophy, as well as cosmology, evolutionary biology, and neuroscience in a fascinating dialogue of faith traditions.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|12 pages

Concepts of Law and Probability in Theology and Science

chapter 2|24 pages

The Development of the Concept of Laws of Nature

chapter 3|22 pages

Contemporary Philosophical Concepts of Laws of Nature: The Quest for Broad Explanatory Consonance

chapter 4|22 pages

Multiverses and Ultimate Causation

chapter 5|20 pages

Laws of Physics, Principles of Self-Organization, and Natural Capacities: On Explaining a Self-Organizing World

chapter 6|22 pages

Chance and Evolution

chapter 7|16 pages

Neuroscience, Determinism, and Downward Causation: Defusing the Free-Will Problem

chapter 8|16 pages

God and Probability

chapter 9|26 pages

From Law and Chance in Nature to Ultimate Reality

chapter 10|8 pages

Creation, Law and Probability: A World Religions’ Perspective

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