Lennox, John C., 2019- Cosmic Chemistry

Preface

Part 1. Surveying the Landscape

1. Introduction
2. Matters of Evidence and Faith
3. A Historical Perspective: The Forgotten Roots of Science and Arguments from Design

Part 2. Science and Explanation

4. Science, its Presuppositions, Scope, and Methodology
5. Worldviews and Their Relation to Science: Naturalism and its Shortcomings
6. Theism and its Relationship to Science: God of Gaps, Complexity of God, and Miracles

Part 3. Understanding the Universe and Life

7. Understanding the Universe: The Beginning and Fine-Tuning
8. The Wonder of the Living World
9. The Genetic Code
10. A Matter of Information
11. Algorithmic Information Theory
12. Life's Solution: Self-Organization?

Part 4. The Modern Synthesis

13. Life's Solution: Evolution?
14. Evolution: Asking Hard Questions
15. The Nature and Scope of Evolution
16. Natural Selection
17. The Edge of Evolution
18. The Mathematics of Evolution

Part 5. The Information Age

19. Systems Biology
20. The Origin of Information: A Word-Based World
21. Brain, Mind, and the Quantum World

Epilogue: Beyond Science But Not Beyond Reason

Notes

Index