Science and Theology Since Copernicus

The Search for Understanding

Peter Barrett (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2004
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. (Verlag)
978-0-567-08970-0 (ISBN)

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Modern science has developed in three major phases: the Scientific Revolution; the rise of geology and Darwin's theory of evolution; and the natural sciences of the 20th century.Surveying the key developments in the natural sciences over the past 450 years, this text provides an outline of the present science and theology discourse and suggests how a scientific description of the world may be placed within a broad theistic theme. The first two phases are described through the work of leading ecientific figures, from Copernicus to Newton, and from Linnaeus to Darwin.

Peter Barrett is Associated Professor of Physics, University of Natal, Durban.

Introduction: Historical Phases of Natural Science; Historical Phases of Natural Theology; Roles and Limits of Science and Theology. The scientific revolution: The Medieval World-View; The Scientific Revolution and its Background; Nicolaus Copernicus; Johannes Kepler; Galileo Galilei; Frances Bacon; Rene Descartes; Robert Boyle; Issac Newton; The Significance of the Scientific Revolution. Natural history: Early Natural History and Deism; Carl Linnaeus; Comte de Buffon; Chevalier de Lamarck; Georges Cuvier; James Hutton; William Buckland; Adam Sedgwick; Charles Lyell; Charles Darwin; Darwin's Theory of Evolution; Early Controversies over Darwin's Theory; The Elaboration of Darwin's Theory. The evolving universe: Classical Physics; The New Physics; Particle Physics; Cosmology; Complexity Theory; A 'Theory of Everything'; Features of the Evolving Universe; Anthropic Principle; Chance and Necessity; The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics; The Hierarchy of Levels of Complexity.

Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	290 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
ISBN-10	0-567-08970-3 / 0567089703
ISBN-13	978-0-567-08970-0 / 9780567089700
Zustand	Neuware