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Creation : law and probability / edited by Fraser Watts.

Contributor(s): Watts, Fraser N
Material type: TextTextSeries: Theology and the sciences: Publisher: Minneapolis, Minn. : Fortress Press, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Edition: First Fortress Press editionDescription: x, 200 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780800662783 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0800662784 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Religion and scienceDDC classification: 213 Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Concepts of law and probability in theology and science / Fraser Watts -- The development of the concept of laws of nature / Peter Harrison -- Contemporary philosophical concepts of laws of nature : the quest for broad explanatory consonance / Philip Clayton -- Multiverses and ultimate causation / George F.R. Ellis -- Laws of physics, principles of self-organization, and natural capacities : on explaining a self-organizing world / Niels Henrik Gregersen -- Chance and evolution / Michael Ruse -- Neuroscience, determinism, and downward causation : defusing the free-will problem / Nancey Murphy -- God and probability / David J. Bartholomew -- From law and chance in nature to ultimate reality / Wesley J. Wildman -- Creation, law and probability : a world religions' perspective / John Bowker -- Afterword : some further reflections / John Polkinghorne.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library Midrange BL240.3 .C74 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2 Available 0182903135354

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Concepts of law and probability in theology and science / Fraser Watts -- The development of the concept of laws of nature / Peter Harrison -- Contemporary philosophical concepts of laws of nature : the quest for broad explanatory consonance / Philip Clayton -- Multiverses and ultimate causation / George F.R. Ellis -- Laws of physics, principles of self-organization, and natural capacities : on explaining a self-organizing world / Niels Henrik Gregersen -- Chance and evolution / Michael Ruse -- Neuroscience, determinism, and downward causation : defusing the free-will problem / Nancey Murphy -- God and probability / David J. Bartholomew -- From law and chance in nature to ultimate reality / Wesley J. Wildman -- Creation, law and probability : a world religions' perspective / John Bowker -- Afterword : some further reflections / John Polkinghorne.

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