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From Complexity to Life List
Price: $24.50 This book brings together an impressive group of leading scholars in the sciences
of complexity, and a few workers on the interface of science and religion, to
explore the wider implications of complexity studies. It includes an introduction
to complexity studies and explores the concept of information in physics and
biology and various philosophical and religious perspectives. The book also poses
the question of the wider metaphysical implications of complexity and the problematic
questions about the emergence of order and meaning in an otherwise silent universe.
From Complexity to Life surveys these topics, providing the strong impression
that the cosmos is poised between the twin extremes of simplicity and complexity.
The volume presents a twofold task that requires a collaboration between the
natural sciences, philosophy, and theology. The first is about the casual structure
of our world. The second question relates to the meaning: How does a sense of
meaning emerge from a universe of inanimate matter subject to blind and purposeless
forces? Chapter authors include Paul Davies, Greg Chaitin, Charles Bennett, Werner
Loewenstein, Paul Dembski, Ian Stewart, Stuart Kauffman, Harold Morowitz,
Arthur Peacocke, and Niels H. Gregersen. Book
of Distinction: 2004 Niels Henrick Gregersen, Ph.D., is associate professor of systematic theology
on the Faculty of Theology at the University of Aarhus and an ordained minister
of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Denmark. Dr. Gregersen graduated from
the Haderslev Cathedra; School and the University of Copenhagen, where he earned
his Ph.D. For the past six years, he has served as assistant pastor of the
University’s
Church of St. John in addition to teaching and writing. The author of three books
and more than 50 major articles, Dr. Gregersen serves as vice president of the
European Society for the Study of Science and Theology and as a member of the
Theological Commission of the Church of Denmark’s Council on Inter-Church
Relations. He has also been a leader Danish Forum for Science and Theology.
Dr. Gregersen was awarded a Templeton Foundation research grant for exploring
the
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