Human DestinyRe-interpreting the theory of evolution in the light of modern physics, Human Destiny argues that the strictly materialistic theory of the Universe, and of man, is no longer tenable. Man, it says, is not on this earth by chance alone - and the author presents a series of convincing arguments to indicate that by the laws of pure chance man, and even life, could not be here at all. Dr. du Nouy contends that science finds a purpose evident in the history of life which rises above the laws of matter. |
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Contents
Our Subjective Idea of the Universe | 3 |
Scientific ThinkingThe Purpose | 12 |
ProbabilitiesAn Application of the Laws | 26 |
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| Title | Human Destiny A Mentor book Volume 1 of Mentor religious classics Signet book |
| Author | Pierre Lecomte du Noüy |
| Publisher | Longmans, Green and Company, 1947 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Feb 10, 2011 |
| Length | 289 pages |
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