The Intelligent UniverseExamines the origins of life on earth, analyzes the Darwinian theory of evolution, and argues that life is the result of a deliberate plan. |
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... concept of " quantum uncer- tainty " was already being widely discussed . Quantum un- certainty introduced a new direction into a debate which had preoccupied western philosophers ever since the time of the Stoics in classical Greece ...
... concept of " quantum uncer- tainty " was already being widely discussed . Quantum un- certainty introduced a new direction into a debate which had preoccupied western philosophers ever since the time of the Stoics in classical Greece ...
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... concept a little better , we must first rid ourselves of some presuppositions imposed on us by thinking in purely terrestrial terms . This controlling intelligence does not operate from some particular time - location in the future ...
... concept a little better , we must first rid ourselves of some presuppositions imposed on us by thinking in purely terrestrial terms . This controlling intelligence does not operate from some particular time - location in the future ...
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... concept of cause - and - effect on its head . Loops in time At first sight , communication from future to past seems to lead to logical inconsistency . On the one hand , we have events behaving statistically according to the normal past ...
... concept of cause - and - effect on its head . Loops in time At first sight , communication from future to past seems to lead to logical inconsistency . On the one hand , we have events behaving statistically according to the normal past ...
Contents
FOREWORD | 6 |
CHANCE AND THE UNIVERSE | 11 |
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO DARWIN | 25 |
Copyright | |
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