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Entropic creation : religious contexts of thermodynamics and cosmology /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kragh, Helge, 1944-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2008]
Series:Science, technology, and culture, 1700-1945.
Subjects:
Cosmology > Religious aspects > History.
Cosmology > Philosophy > History.
Cosmology > History > 19th century.
Cosmology > History > 20th century.
Entropy > Religious aspects.
Entropy > Philosophy.
Second law of thermodynamics.
Creationism.
Religion and science.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Some early ideas on decay and creation
  • Thermodynamics and the heat death
  • The entropic creation argument
  • Concepts of the universe
  • Post-1920 developments
  • Shadows from the past.