INTELLIGIBLE DESIGN : a REALISTIC APPROACH TO THE PHILOSOPHY AND HISTORY OF SCIENCE.

This 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 fr...

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Main Author: Gonzalo, Julio A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: WSPC, 2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Modern 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
  • 2. 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 Apes Genome
  • On The Evolution Controversy
  • Scientific critiques of Darwinism
  • 3. Beyond nature and history
  • The religion of Darwinism
  • On the riddle of man's origin
  • On science, history and free will
  • Science and Faith
  • Concluding remarks.