Margenau, Henry; Varghese, Roy Abraham (red.), 1992-, Cosmos, Bios, Theos

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Preface — xiii
Introduction / Roy Abraham Varghese — 1
PART ONE: Astronomers, Mathematicians, and Physicists — 27
1. Who Arranged for These Laws to Cooperate So Well? / Ulrich Becker — 28
2. The Origin of the Universe Is, and Always Will Be, a Mystery / Stuart Bowyer — 31
3. Appeal to God May Be Required to Answer the Origin Question / Geoffrey F. Chew — 33
4. How Is It Possible to Exclude Action Coming from a Transcendent Order of Being / Alexandre Favre — 37
5. Where Matter and Consciousness Came from Is Unknown / John Erik Fornaess — 40
6. God Is a Characteristic of the Real Universe / Conyers Herring — 42
7. What Forces Filled the Universe with Energy Fifteen Billion Years Ago? / Robert Jastrow — 45
8. There Need Be No Ultimate Conflict between Science and Religion / B. D. Josephson — 50
9. The Exquisite Order of the Physical World Calls for the Divine / Vera Kistiakowsky — 51
10. Was It Planned, Is It Part of a Grander Scheme of Things? / William A. Little — 54
11. The Laws of Nature Are Created by God / Henry Margenau — 57
12. Science Will Never Give Us the Answers to All Our Questions / Sir Nevill Mott — 64
13. Religion and Science Both Proceed from Acts of Faith / Robert A. Naumann — 70
14. Our Final Ineptitude at Producing a Rational Explanation of the Universe / Louis Néel — 73
15. A Feeling of Great Surprise That There Is Anything / Edward Nelson — 75
16. Creation Is Supported by All the Data So Far / Arno Penzias — 78
17. Science Asks What and How, While Religion Asks Why / John G. Phillips — 84
18. Temporal Origin and Ontological Origin / John Polkinghorne — 86
19. I Have Difficulty Accepting that Matter Has Been in Existence Forever / John A. Russell — 89
20. Science and Religion: Reflections on Transcendence and Secularization / Abdus Salam — 93
21. One Must Ask Why and Not Just How / Arthur Schawlow — 105
22. The Origin of the Universe Does Not Seem to Me to Be a Scientific Question / Emilio Segrè — 108
23. The Universe Is Ultimately to Be Explained in Terms of a Metacosmic Reality / Wolfgang Smith — 111
24. The Guidance of Evolution Lets God Appear to Us in Many Guises / Walter Thirring — 119
25. The Question of Origin Seems Unanswered if We Explore from a Scientific View Alone / Charles H. Townes — 122
26. The Origin of the Universe Can Be Described Scientifically as a Miracle / Herbert Uhlig — 125
27. There Is a Bohr Complementarity between Science and Religion / Victor Weisskopf — 127
28. The Origin of Time Is Not in Time / C. F. von Weizsäcker — 128
29. The Origin of the Universe Is a Disturbing Mystery for Science / Eugene Wigner — 131
30. The Hidden Variables of Quantum Mechanics Are Under God’s Power / Shoichi Yoshikawa — 133
PART TWO: Biologists and Chemists — 137
1. There Exists an Incomprehensible Power with Limitless Foresight and Knowledge / Christian B. Anfinsen — 138
2. The Existence of a Creator Represents a Satisfactory Solution / Werner Arber — 141
3. The Ultimate Truth Is God / D. H. R. Barton — 144
4. The Mechanism of the World and the Why of It / Steven L. Bernasek — 149
5. The Origin of Life Seems Lost in the Details of Prebiotic Chemistry / Hans J. Bremmermann — 152
6. The Entropic versus the Anthropic Principle / Friedrich Cramer — 155
7. How Is It Possible to Escape the Idea of Some Intelligent and Organizing Force? / R. Merle d’Aubigné — 157
8. A Divine Design: Some Questions on Origins / Sir John Eccles — 160
9. Religion and Science Neither Exclude nor Prove One Another / Manfred Eigen — 165
10. The Creative Process May Well Be What We Observe, Deduce, and Call Evolution / Thomas C. Emmel — 166
11. At Some Stage in Evolution, God Created the Human Soul / P. C. C. Garnham — 172
12. A Spirit Which Has Established the Universe and Its Laws / Roger J. Gautheret — 174
13. I Have a Religious Attitude toward the Unknown / Ragnar Granit — 177
14. I Consider the Existence of God as Unknowable / Robert W. Holley — 179
15. I Have No Way of Knowing Whether God Exists / Jerome Karle — 181
16. A Religious Impulse Guides Our Motive in Sustaining Scientific Inquiry / Joshua Lederberg — 184
17. New Visions of the Cosmos / Clifford N. Matthews — 185
18. Nobel Prize Winners Are Not More Competent about God / Vladimir Prelog — 187
19. The Universe Started from an Instability in the Quantum Vacuum / Ilya Progogine — 188
20. It Is Probably Impossible to Explain a Miracle with Physics and Chemistry / Tadeus Reichstein — 193
21. I Have Very Little in the Way of Belief in a Concrete God / Frederick C. Robbins — 194
22. The Piling of Coincidence on Coincidence / Jay Roth — 197
23. Life, Even in Bacteria, Is Too Complex to Have Occurred by Chance / Harry Rubin — 202
24. Religion Is a Concern of the Human Spirit / H. G. Schlegel — 204
25. In a Scientific Sense, We Know Very Little on the Origin of Life / Robert Shapiro — 206
26. I Do Not See How Science Can Shed Light on the Origins of Design / George Snell — 209
27. A Deeper Connectivity than the Mechanical Models of Our Current World View May Comprehend / Jeffrey Steinfeld — 212
28. The Existence of Some Creative Impulse at the Very Beginning / János Szentágothai — 214
29. Life and Mind in the Universe / George Wald — 218
30. I Don’t See How We Can Gather Empirical Evidence about How the Natural Order Itself Came into Being / Ward Watt — 220
PART THREE: The Existence of God and the Origin of the Universe: A Debate between an Atheist and a Theist — 225
1. The Existence of the Universe as a Pointer to the Existence of God / H. D. Lewis — 226
2. Why the Existence of God Is Not Required to Explain the Existence of the Universe / Antony Flew — 236
3. Response to Flew / H. D. Lewis — 239
4. Response to Lewis / Antony Flew — 241
5. Comment on Lewis and Flew / Hugo Meynell — 243
6. One Word More / Antony Flew — 248
7. Another Word More / Hugo Meynell — 250
8. Concluding Comment / H. D. Lewis — 251
PART FOUR: Concluding Scientific Postscripts — 253
1. The Origin of the Universe in Science and Religion / William R. Stoeger — 254
2. Relativity, Quantum Theory, and the Mystery of Life / Eugene Wigner — 270
Glossary — 279
Index — 281