The Return to Cosmology: Postmodern Science and the Theology of Nature |
Contents
Thinking about the Universe | 1 |
SCIENTIFIC MYTHOLOGY 19511957 | 19 |
Scientific Theories and Scientific Myths 21 2 3 3 2 | 33 |
Ethics and Cosmic Evolution | 53 |
Science and Our View of the World | 72 |
Conclusions | 81 |
Arthur Koestler I 1964 | 89 |
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 1965 | 113 |
François Jacob 1974 | 156 |
Carl Sagan 1977 | 165 |
Arthur Koestler III 1979 | 176 |
Gregory Bateson 1980 | 201 |
THE FUTURE OF COSMOLOGY | 215 |
Death of the Spectator | 237 |
The Fire and the Rose | 255 |
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