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Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion

Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion

Kauffman, Stuart a.

Paperback

Religion General History & Philosophy of Science

ISBN10: 0465018882
ISBN13: 9780465018888
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: Feb 23 2010
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.16
Language: English

Consider the complexity of a living cell after 3.8 billion years of evolution. Is it more awesome to suppose that a transcendent God fashioned the cell at a stroke, or to realize that it evolved with no Almighty Hand, but arose on its own in the changing biosphere?

In this bold and fresh look at science and religion, complexity theorist Stuart Kauffman argues that the qualities of divinity that we revere--creativity, meaning, purposeful action--are properties of the universe that can be investigated methodically. He offers stunning evidence for this idea in an abundance of fields, from cell biology to the philosophy of mind, and uses it to find common ground between belief systems often at odds with one another.

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