God, Creation, and Contemporary PhysicsThis book, in a clear and succinct way, assesses the implications of contemporary physics for speaking about God's relation to the time-space world. Mark William Worthing describes the critique of traditional arguments for the existence of God by physicists: God and creation out of nothing in relation to the Big Bang theory; God and continuing creation in relation to field theory, Bell's theorem, providence, entropy, and theodicy; God and the consummation of creation. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
PHYSICS AND THEOLOGY | 7 |
From the Baconian Compromise to the War between Science | 15 |
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