Science of God
Subtitle: the convergence of scientific and biblical wisdom
By: Gerald L. Schroeder
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781439129586
Subjects: Religion and science
Table of contents: title: Prologue: A Colleague turns sixty; title: Has science replaced the Bible? The great debate; title: The new convergence: sience, scientists, and the Bible; title: The age of our universe: six days and fifteen billion years; title: The six days of Genesis; title: The nature of God: biblical expectations for an infinite yet immanent creator; title: Life: its origins and its evolution; title: Evolution: statistics versus random mutations; title: The watchmaker and the watch; title: The origin of humankind; title: The science of free will; title: Why bad (and good) things happen; title: Bread from Earth: a universe tuned for life; title: Epilogue: Well, what about dinosaurs?; title: Appendix: Cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) as a universal clock; title: Problems in estimating the age of the universe; title: The logic of having a biblical calendar; title: The long life spans at the time of Adam and Eve; title: Genesis day three; title: The flood and the time of Noah; title: A letter anf a reply: why God and the God practicle are not at odds; title: What is the wisdon of Creation?; title: Figure 1. Ages of births and deaths of persons following Adam and Eve; title: Figure 2. The effect of relative motion and the stretching of space on the observed frequency of light waves; title: Figure 3. The exponential spiral: a curve commonly found in out universe; title: Figure 4. Two concepts of evolution; title: Figure 5. Similarities among tetrapod limbs; title: Figure 6. Several vertebrate embryos; title: Figure 7. A time line from Creation to Abraham; title: Figure 8. Water waves passing through two sizes of harbor openings; title: Figure 9. Patterns of light on a screen after passing through an opaque plate with (top) one slit open, (bottom) two slits open; title: figure 10. The fifth dimension: an alternative view of reality.