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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: McGrath, Alister E., 1953- Fine-tuned universe. Louisville, Ky. : Westminster John Knox Press, c2009 (OCoLC)642406263 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Alister E McGrath |
| ISBN: | 9780664234416 0664234410 0664233104 9780664233105 |
| OCLC Number: | 233484795 |
| Description: | xv, 262 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Yearning to make sense of things -- The crisis of confidence in modern natural theology -- Renewing the vision for natural theology -- Challenges to a renewed natural theology -- Natural theology and the explanation of reality -- The dynamics of a trinitarian natural theology -- Surprising facts: counterfactuals and natural theology -- Augustine of Hippo on creation: a theological lens -- In the beginning: the constants of the universe -- Can these bones live? The origins of life -- The matrix of life: the curious chemistry of water -- Chemical catalysts and the constraints of evolution -- The origins of complexity: the mechanism of evolution -- The outcomes of evolution: the directionality of evolution -- An emergent creation and natural theology. |
| Series Title: | Gifford lectures, 2009. |
| Responsibility: | Alister E. McGrath. |
Abstract:
Exploring a wide range of physical and biological phenomena and drawing on the latest research in biochemistry and evolutionary biology, McGrath draws out the implications of our new understanding of the natural world for traditional debates about the existence of God. --from publisher description.
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