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Chaos Complexity: Scientific Perspectives On Divine Action (Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action, Vol 2)

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The essays found in this book are essential to any research regarding Chaos, Quantum Theory, and God's interaction in this world. Nancey Murphy, John Polkinhorne, and Thomas Tracy, to name a few, give excellent defenses for the belief that God could indeed interact with this world through the quantum world, without disrupting the nature that he has created.

This book was written by a panel of scholars who cumulate PhDs in physics, philosophy and theology, and are more of the "liberal" trend (either evolutionists, Neotheist, Postmodern...). The different essays present a variety of views, but are highly speculative. I do not want to question the value of these scholars, I just think that they have to speculate so much because we know so little about Chaos theory or Quantum Mechanics.
The book is anyway a worthy attempt, given that unclear fields such as Chaos Theory or Quantum Mech. belong as much to physics as to Theology or to Philosophy. All interpretations seem possible.

An important study for our entrance into an age unfettered by a religious system repressing scientific progress, moving toward the merging of science and new religious study.