Beschreibung:
Midgley notes how science has developed high spiritual ambitions. From prophetic physicists have come speculations that go beyond the claims of any religion.
Chapter 1 Salvation and the Academics; Chapter 2 Prophecies, Marxist and Anthropic; Chapter 3 Minimalism does not Work; Chapter 4 The Fascination of Chance; Chapter 5 The Function of Faith; Chapter 6 Enlightenment and Information; Chapter 7 Putting Nature in her Place; Chapter 8 The Remarkable Masculine Birth of Time; Chapter 9 Unexpected Difficulties of Deicide; Chapter 10 The Uninhabitable Vacuum; Chapter 11 Parsimony, Integrity and Puritanism; Chapter 12 Questions of Motivation; Chapter 13 The Hunger for Synthesis; Chapter 14 Evolution and the Apotheosis of Man; Chapter 15 Dyson, Animism and the Nature of Matter; Chapter 16 Space, Freedom and Romance; Chapter 17 The Anthropic Synthesis; Chapter 18 Quantum Quandaries; Chapter 19 Conserving the Spirit;