| ISBN |
9781616145514 (hardback) |
| 161614551X (hardback) |
| Name |
Bloom, Howard K., 1943- author. |
| Title |
The God problem : how a godless cosmos creates / Howard Bloom. |
| Published |
Amherst, New York : Prometheus Books, 2012. |
| ©2012. |
| Description |
708 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1.Appetizers, Canapes, and Snacks -- Introduction: I Dare You---The Weirdest Ride in the Universe -- The Cafe Table at the Beginning of the Universe -- The Problem with God: The Tale of a Twisted Confession -- 2.A Taste of Sin -- Brace Yourself: The Five Heresies -- Heresy Number One Why A Does Not Equal A -- When Is a Frog a River? Aristotle Wrestles Heraclitus -- Heresy Number Two Why One Plus One Does Not Equal Two -- Heresy Number Three Prepare to Be Burned at the Stake (The Second Law of Thermodynamics--- Why Entropy Is an Outrage) -- Heresy Number Four Randomness Is Wrong---The Six Monkeys at Six Typewriters Error -- A Brief History of the God Problem: Were Kepler, Galileo, and Newton Creationists? -- Galileo's Nature Fetish: Poking the Pope -- Gamow versus Hoyle: The War between Big Bang and Steady State -- The Tale of the Termites -- 3.The Saga of a Scratch Mark -- The Mystery of the Magic Beans: What the Hell Is an Axiom? -- |
| Summary |
God's war crimes, Aristotle's sneaky tricks, Galileos creationism, Newton's intelligent design, entropys errors, Einstein's pajamas, John Conway's game of loneliness, Information Theory's blind spot, Stephen Wolfram's New Kind Of Science, and six monkeys at six typewriters getting it wrong. What do these have to do with the birth of a universe and with your need for meaning? Everything, as you're about to see. |
| Subjects |
Science -- Social aspects |
| Religion and science |
| Cosmology -- Miscellanea |
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