Cosmos, Bios, Theos : Scientists Reflect on Science, Religion and the Origins of the Universe, Life, and Homo Sapiens

by Margenau, Henry; Varghese, Roy Abraham

• ISBN13: 9780812691863
• ISBN10: 0812691865
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-05-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Astronomers, Mathematicians, and Physicists	p. 27
Who Arranged for These Laws to Cooperate So Well?	p. 28
The Origin of the Universe Is, and Always Will Be, a Mystery	p. 31
Appeal to God May Be Required to Answer the Origin Question	p. 33
How Is It Possible to Exclude Action Coming from a Transcendent Order of Being	p. 37
Where Matter and Consciousness Came from Is Unknown	p. 40
God Is a Characteristic of the Real Universe	p. 42
What Forces Filled the Universe with Energy Fifteen Billion Years Ago?	p. 45
There Need Be No Ultimate Conflict between Science and Religion	p. 50
The Exquisite Order of the Physical World Calls for the Divine	p. 51
Was It Planned, Is It Part of a Grander Scheme of Things?	p. 54
The Laws of Nature Are Created by God	p. 57
Science Will Never Give Us the Answers to All Our Questions	p. 64
Religion and Science Both Proceed from Acts of Faith	p. 70
Our Final Ineptitude at Producing a Rational Explanation of the Universe	p. 73
A Feeling of Great Surprise That There Is Anything	p. 75
Creation Is Supported by All the Data So Far	p. 78
Science Asks What and How, While Religion Asks Why	p. 84
Temporal Origin and Ontological Origin	p. 86
I Have Difficulty Accepting that Matter Has Been in Existence Forever	p. 89
Science and Religion: Reflections on Transcendence and Secularization	p. 93
One Must Ask Why and Not Just How	p. 105
The Origin of the Universe Does Not Seem to Me to Be a Scientific Question	p. 108
The Universe Is Ultimately to Be Explained in Terms of a Metacosmic Reality	p. 111
The Guidance of Evolution Lets God Appear to Us in Many Guises	p. 119
The Question of Origin Seems Unanswered if We Explore from a Scientific View Alone	p. 122
The Origin of the Universe Can Be Described Scientifically as a Miracle	p. 125
There Is a Bohr Complementarity between Science and Religion	p. 127
The Origin of Time Is Not in Time	p. 128
The Origin of the Universe Is a Disturbing Mystery for Science	p. 131
The Hidden Variables of Quantum Mechanics Are Under God's Power	p. 133
Biologists and Chemists	p. 137
There Exists an Incomprehensible Power with Limitless Foresight and Knowledge	p. 138
The Existence of a Creator Represents a Satisfactory Solution	p. 141
The Ultimate Truth Is God	p. 144
The Mechanism of the World and the Why of It	p. 149
The Origin of Life Seems Lost in the Details of Prebiotic Chemistry	p. 152
The Entropic versus the Anthropic Principle	p. 155
How Is It Possible to Escape the Idea of Some Intelligent and Organizing Force?	p. 157
A Divine Design: Some Questions on Origins	p. 160
Religion and Science Neither Exclude nor Prove One Another	p. 165
The Creative Process May Well Be What We Observe, Deduce, and Call Evolution	p. 166
At Some Stage in Evolution, God Created the Human Soul	p. 172
A Spirit Which Has Established the Universe and Its Laws	p. 174
I Have a Religious Attitude toward the Unknown	p. 177
I Consider the Existence of God as Unknowable	p. 179
I Have No Way of Knowing Whether God Exists	p. 181
A Religious Impulse Guides Our Motive in Sustaining Scientific Inquiry	p. 184
New Visions of the Cosmos	p. 185
Nobel Prize Winners Are Not More Competent about God	p. 187
The Universe Started from an Instability in the Quantum Vacuum	p. 188
It Is Probably Impossible to Explain a Miracle with Physics and Chemistry	p. 193
I Have Very Little in the Way of Belief in a Concrete God	p. 194
The Piling of Coincidence on Coincidence	p. 197
Life, Even in Bacteria, Is Too Complex to Have Occurred by Chance	p. 202
Religion Is a Concern of the Human Spirit	p. 204
In a Scientific Sense, We Know Very Little on the Origin of Life	p. 206
I Do Not See How Science Can Shed Light on the Origins of Design	p. 209
A Deeper Connectivity than the Mechanical Models of Our Current World View May Comprehend	p. 212
The Existence of Some Creative Impulse at the Very Beginning	p. 214
Life and Mind in the Universe	p. 218
I Don't See How We Can Gather Empirical Evidence about How the Natural Order Itself Came into Being	p. 220
The Existence of God and the Origin of the Universe: A Debate between an Atheist and a Theist	p. 225
The Existence of the Universe as a Pointer to the Existence of God	p. 226
Why the Existence of God Is Not Required to Explain the Existence of the Universe	p. 236
Response to Flew	p. 239
Response to Lewis	p. 241
Comment on Lewis and Flew	p. 243
One Word More	p. 248
Another Word More	p. 250
Concluding Comment	p. 251
Concluding Scientific Postscripts	p. 253
The Origin of the Universe in Science and Religion	p. 254
Relativity, Quantum Theory, and the Mystery of Life	p. 270
Glossary	p. 279
Index	p. 281
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