Entropic creation
Subtitle: religious contexts of thermodynamics and cosmology
By: Helge S. Kragh.
Series: Science, technology and culture, 1700-1945
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hampshire, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780754664147
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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-264) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Some early ideas on decay and creation; title: Thermodynamics and the heat death; title: The entropic creation argument; title: Concepts of the universe; title: Post-1920 developments; title: Shadows from the past.