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Reinventing the Sacred|Stuart a. Kauffman

Reinventing the Sacred : A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion

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Consider the complexity of a living cell after 3.8 billion years of evolution. Is it more awesome to suppose that a transcendent God fashioned the cell at a stroke, or to realize that it evolved with no Almighty Hand, but arose on its own in the changing biosphere?

In this bold and fresh look at science and religion, complexity theorist Stuart Kauffman argues that the qualities of divinity that we revere--creativity, meaning, purposeful action--are properties of the universe that can be investigated methodically. He offers stunning evidence for this idea in an abundance of fields, from cell biology to the philosophy of mind, and uses it to find common ground between belief systems often at odds with one another.

A daring and ambitious argument for a new understanding of natural divinity, Reinventing the Sacred challenges readers both scientifically and philosophically.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780465018888
  • ISBN-10: 0465018882
  • Publisher: Basic Books
  • Publish Date: February 2010
  • Dimensions: 8.16 x 5.6 x 0.88 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.74 pounds
  • Page Count: 336
  • Reading Level: Ages 18-UP

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