ABSTRACT

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.

chapter Three|22 pages

Contemporary Philosophical Concepts of Laws of Nature

The Quest for Broad Explanatory Consonance

chapter Five|20 pages

Laws of Physics, Principles of Self-Organization, and Natural Capacities

On Explaining a Self-Organizing World

chapter Six|22 pages

Chance and Evolution 1

chapter Seven|16 pages

Neuroscience, Determinism, and Downward Causation

Defusing the Free-Will Problem
Edited ByNancey Murphy

chapter Eight|16 pages

God and Probability

chapter Ten|8 pages

Creation, Law and Probability

A World Religions’ Perspective
Edited ByJohn Bowker