Parallels and convergences
Subtitle: Mormon thought and engineering vision
By: edited by A. Scott Howe, Richard L. Bushman
Publisher: Greg Kofford Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Salt Lake City
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781589581876
Subjects: Religion and science; Doctrines; Mormon Church; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. No small and cramped eternities: Parley Pratt and the foundations of Mormon cosmology; title: 1. Models of spirit matter / Adam N. Davis; title: 2. A standard physics model of spirit / A. Scott Howe; title: 3. A technical interpretation of Mormon physics and physiology / Lincoln Cannon and A. Scott Howe; title: 4. Materialism, free will, and Mormonism / Adam N. Davis; title: 5. God, the perfect engineer / Allen W. Leigh; title: 6. Complementary aspects of Mormonism and transhumanism / Brent Allsop, Christopher Bradford, Lincoln Cannon, Andrew West, A. Joseph West, and Carl A. Youngblood; title: Quantified morality / A. Scott Howe; title: 8. Theological implications of the New God Argument / Lincoln Cannon and A. Joseph West; title: 9. Gaia, Mormonism, and paradisiacal Earth / Roger D. Hansen; title: 10. Spiritual underpinnings for a space program; title: 11. Welcome to the twenty-first century: the uncharted future ahead / David H. Bailey.