Creationism is no longer tenable, scientifically, although many still cling to it. This kind of religious 'literalism' can be found in geo-political examples of fundamentalism and particularly in violent extremism in Islam. If creationism is dead, what do religious people think they mean when they say 'we believe in God, as Creator or Source' of a universe that 'makes itself?' This trilogy offers a new way of understanding Creator and Creation alongside the science of cosmology, physics, quantum and evolution. What caused ...
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Creationism is no longer tenable, scientifically, although many still cling to it. This kind of religious 'literalism' can be found in geo-political examples of fundamentalism and particularly in violent extremism in Islam. If creationism is dead, what do religious people think they mean when they say 'we believe in God, as Creator or Source' of a universe that 'makes itself?' This trilogy offers a new way of understanding Creator and Creation alongside the science of cosmology, physics, quantum and evolution. What caused the Big Bang and the Big Birth? What is the relationship between cause and effect? What kind of energy created energy-matter and space-time in the Big Bang and expansion? How could God be involved, let alone embedded, in natural processes of cosmological and evolutionary change if any version of divine 'intervention' undermines the vital autonomy of these processes? This book (LE1) asks this kind of question as it explores the belief systems and discoveries of Copernicus, Galileo, Brahe, Bruno, Newton, Maxwell, Faraday, Hubble, Planck, Einstein, Dirac, Eddington, Bohr, Schrodinger, Heisenberg, Hawking, Higgs, the multiverse and string theory supporters and many others who have so radically changed our understanding of science. 'Love's Energy' identifies particular 'pattern paradoxes' of certainty and uncertainty, ontology and epistemology, order and chance in the 'indeterminacy' present in the fascinating story of science and theology. It offers the general and more specialist reader an opportunity to make new connections between these formative parts of our intellectual map making and assumptions about the world. In an age when religious dogmatism is intolerant and dangerous, it offers an exciting new alternative for people of all faiths - the belief that Love's Energy is the source of cosmological and evolutionary creativity and embedded in natural processes and relationships."
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