Cosmos A complex and orderly system, such as our universe; the opposite of chaos. A complex, well-ordered, and unified system, usually referring to the world of human experience or to the universe as a whole. The verb in Greek

expansion rate of the cosmos becomes critical - too rapid and the irregularities will not be amplified enough for galaxy formation to occur; too slow and the cosmos will be closed with a lifetime too short to permit biological evolution.

anthropic features of the cosmos . Two ways of interpreting this are possible. It may be a claim that rational observers are the efficient cause of the universe. However, this would imply that time reversal is a reality on a cosmic scale and

creating and sustaining the cosmos from moment to moment. There is no particular causal joint, only the overall creator-creature relation. As Tracy points out, this is essentially to subsume providence into creation, and pays a heavy theological

is the environment of the cosmos . His God’s interaction with the world, by means of the input of information - is the highest-level emergent property (see the concept of emergence ) of the cosmos as system, a system within which God is

This thought-aspect of the cosmos might be the medium by which God’s information enters physical systems. This would be consonant with the notion that it is to human minds, the material structure with the greatest noetic aspect, that God is

the God, Humanity and the Cosmos project we have adopted what van Huyssteen refers to as ‘a weak form of critical realism ’ (see critical realism in science and religion ). Addressing reality is the goal of the rational explorations

God, Humanity and the Cosmos . In 1999 Oxford University appointed the first Andreas Idreos Professor in this area, John Brooke . Two other figures not normally thought of as theologians have also done a great deal to stimulate the

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