The big bang and God : an astro-theology /: an astro-theology. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Theodore Walker Jr. and Chandra Wickramasinghe.
• Authors: Walker, Theodore, 1953-; Wickramasinghe, Chandra, 1939-
• Contents: Acknowledgements; Abstract; Summary Preview; PART I: ASTRO-THEOLOGY AND COSMOLOGY; 1.1. Modern Astro-Theology – William Derham; 1.4. Postmodern Revisions; 1.7. Cosmology – Fred Hoyle; 1.8. Big Bang Cosmology – Georges Edouard Lemaître; 1.11. Big Bang Cosmology – Edgar Allan Poe; 1.20. Hoyle's Contributions to Big Bang, Steady State, Quasi-Steady-State, Inflationary, and Multiverse Cosmologies; PART II: INTERDISCIPLINARY CONVERGENCES: FROM STARDUST TO DEITY; 2.1. Astrochemistry; 2.3. From Astrochemistry to Astrobiology; 2.4. First Hoylean Argument Leading to Astrobiology; 2.5. Anthropic Principle; 2.10. Nuclear Astrophysics; 2.11. Second Hoylean Argument Leading to Astrobiology; 2.12. Astrobiology; 2.16. Comets and Biology - Cometary Panspermia; 2.19. Interstellar Bacteria; 2.20. Astrobiology and Cosmology; 2.21. From Astrobiology and Cosmology to Theology; PART III: MICROBIOLOGY AND COMETARY PANSPERMIA; 3.1. Origins of Microbial Life; 3.14. Enter Fred Hoyle; 3.22. From Elements to Organic Molecules and Life; 3.24. Hoyle-Wickramasinghe Collaboration Begins; 3.30. Cometary Panspermia verses Random Assembly; 3.35. The Meteorite Microfossil Saga; 3.39. Microorganisms in the Stratosphere; 3.41. Cometary Panspermia Today; 3.45. Concerning the Next Chapter; PART IV: COSMOLOGY, REALITY, AND PANORAMIC THEOLOGY; 4.1. Cosmic Variables; 4.2. Variations in Reality-inclusiveness; 4.4. Reality-inclusiveness and the Reality of God; 4.6. Panentheism; 4.11. Pantheism; 4.12. Classical Theisms; 4.14. Atheism; 4.15. Reality-inclusiveness and Universe; 4.16. Panentheism Affirms One God, One Universe; PART V: COSMOLOGY, PANORAMIC BIOLOGY, AND PANORAMIC PSYCHOLOGY; 5.1. Cosmology: Definitions and Scope; 5.7. Cosmological Models; 5.16. Cosmology: Where Biology and Psychology Meet Theology; 5.20. Panspermia and Panpsychism: Dictionary Data; 5.23. Panspermia; 5.28. Panpsychism; 5.30. Panpsychism and Brain Functions; 5.36. Panpsychism as Neoclassical and Postmodern; 5.39. Panpsychism / Universal Psychicalism; 5.42. Universal Animism; 5.43. Universal Creationism Entails Universal Evolution; 5.47. Panpsychism and Obviously Inanimate Objects; PART VI: ANALOGY, METAPHYSICS, FACT, MYTHICAL SYMBOLS, THEOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS, AND RELIGION IN POSTMODERN SCIENCE; 6.1. Mind-Body Analogy and Person-to-Cell Analogy; 6.6. From Psychology and Biology to Theology; 6.8. Analogy and Metaphysics; 6.10. From Astro-Biotic and Cosmo-Biotic Reasoning to Theology; 6.19. Factual Requirements in Postmodern Science; 6.28. Cometary Panspermia and Mythical Symbols; 6.33. Cometary Panspermia and Theological Implications; 6.38. Panspermia and Religion; PART VII: FUTURE INTERDISCIPLINARY CONVERGENCES TOWARD THEOLOGY: A POSTMODERN TREND; 7.1. Astronomy, Astrobiology, Cosmology, Theology; 7.3. Sociology; 7.5. Metaphysical Sociology; 7.6. Metaphysics of Nature; 7.7. Metaphysics of Morals; 7.8. Liberty-Oriented Ethics, Theology, and Cosmology; 7.9. Narration/Storytelling; 7.11. Mythology; 7.14. Graphic Images, Art, Dance, Music, Poetry, and Literature; 7.16. Science and Science Fiction; 7.19. Science and Spirituality; 7.20. Multiverse Speculations and Avoiding the G-word; 7.22. Multiverse and Implicit Generic Quasi-Steady-State Cosmology; 7.27. Concluding Predictions; PART VIII: FUTURE ASTROBIOLOGY; 8.1. Rigidity of Paradigms; 8.8. Clash with Religion: The Arkansas Trial; 8.13. Emergence of Cometary Panspermia; 8.18. Clash with Authority; 8.20. Evolutionary Predictions; 8.23. Horizontal Gene Transfer; 8.28. Viral Sequences in Genomes; 8.32. Astronomical Spectroscopy; 8.35. Crucial Data from Meteorites; 8.36. The Polonnaruwa Meteorite; PART IX; 9.0. From William Derham's Modern Demonstration of God to John Wesley's Precedent for Postmodern Exemplification of God;
• Publisher Details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 201.65231; Astronomy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Religion and science; Cosmology; General; Comparative Religion; Religion & Science; Philosophy; Religion & beliefs
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137535023; 1137535024
• Related ISBNs: 9781137552426
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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