Strict Naturalism and Christianity: Attempt at Drafting an Updated Theology of Nature.
In the first part of this essay I sketch a view on cosmogenesis from the perspective of modern science, emphasizing, first, that the laws of nature are outcomes of the history of nature, not imposed on nature from outside of nature; and, second, that the universe, including human beings, is the resu...
| Publicado en: | Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science Vol. 42; no. 3; pp. 701 - 715 |
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