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Book SynopsisThis book provides realistic answers to hotly debated scientific topics: Science is about quantitative aspects of natural realities (physical, chemical, biological) but it is the result of human intellectual inquiry and therefore not “per se” materialistic.This book, with contributions from experts in physics, cosmology, mathematics, engineering, biology and genetics, covers timely and relevant topics such as the origin of the universe, the origin of life on Earth, the origin of man (intelligent life) and the origin of science.
Table of ContentsModern Science in Historical Perspective: On the Origins of Modern Science; The Post-Renaissance Revolution: The New Science; Frank Sherwood Taylor: The Man Who was Converted by Galileo; The Limits of Science; Proofs and Demonstrations; On the Intelligibility of Quantum Mechanics; Uncertainty, Incompleteness, Chance, and Design; A Finite, Open and Contingent Universe; On the Origin and Development of Life: A Brief History of Evolutionary Thought; Life's Intelligible Design; What Are the Contributions of Genetics to the Understanding of Life?; On the Human Genome in Contrast to the Great Ape's Genome; On the Evolution Controversy; Scientific Critiques of Darwinism; Beyond Nature and History: The Religion of Darwinism; On the Riddle of Man's Origin; On Science, History and Free Will; Science and Faith.
