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  • Bourke, Vernon J. 1967. "St. Thomas Aquinas" Encyclopedia of Philosophy. New York: Macmillan Company

  • Davies, Paul 1994. "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Science" Evidence of Purpose John Marks Templeton, ed. New York: Continuum.

  • __________. 1992. The Mind of God: The Scientific Basis for a Rational World New York: Simon & Schuster

  • Emerton, Norma. 1989. "The Argument from Design in Early Modern Theology" Science and Christian Belief 1, no. 2: (129-47).

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  • Monod, Jacques. 1972. Chance and Necessity. trans. A Wainhouse. London: Collins

  • Murphy, Nancey and Ellis, George, eds. On the Moral Nature of the Universe: Theology, Cosmology, and Ethics. Minneapolis: Fortress.

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  • Polkinghorne, John. 1994. "A Potent Universe." Evidence of Purpose John Marks Templeton, ed. New York: Continuum

  • __________. 1987. One World: The Interaction of Science and Theology Princeton: Princeton University Press.

  • Stewart, Ian. 1989. Does God Play Dice?: The Mathematics of Chaos Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

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Anna Case-Winters

A revised version of this paper was published in Zygon, March 2000, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 69-81.

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