Creation : law and probability /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Watts, Fraser N.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, 2008.
Edition:Fortress Press ed.
Series:Theology and the sciences.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Concepts of law and probability in theology and science
  • The development of the concept of laws of nature
  • Contemporary philosophical concepts of laws of nature : the quest for broad explanatory consonance
  • Multiverses and ultimate causation
  • Laws of physics, principles of self-organization, and natural capacities : on explaining a self-organizing world
  • Chance and evolution
  • Neuroscience, determinism, and downward causation: defusing the free-will problem
  • God and probability
  • From law and chance in nature to ultimate reality
  • Creation, law and probability :a world religions' perspective
  • Afterword : some further reflections.