book, The Fifth Miracle Paul Davies (p. 112) claims that life isn't mysterious because of its complexity per se but because of its "tightly specified complexity." Stuart Kauffman in his just published Investigations (October 2000) proposes

Dialogue." Davies, Paul. “Teleology Without Teleology: Purpose through Emergent Complexity." Drees, Willem B. “Evolutionary Naturalism and Religion." Edwards, Denis.

like John Barrow and Paul Davies , who treat cosmological metaphors as narrative, with the non-teleological approach of Stephen Hawking , who seems closer to Derrida and Ricoeur. Happel sees these approaches as parallel to the theological

different view. Physicist Paul Davies , for example, has written that the beauty and order of the laws of physics themselves suggests there must be something behind those laws, something driving the mathematical beauty and order in the universe.

University Press, 2003. Davies , Paul. The Cosmic Blueprint: New Discoveries in Nature’s Creative Ability to Order the Universe . New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988 (reprint, Radnor, PA: Templeton Foundation Press, 2004).

York: Vintage, 2002. Davies , Paul. The Mind of God: the Scientific Basis for a Rational World . New York: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1993. Livio, Mario. The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi . New York: Broadway Books, 2002.

response to scientists like Paul Davies , who say they do see a point to the universe and they think that science itself supports that? DR. WEINBERG: I think it's true that there is a mystery about nature which is not likely to be cleared up in

has led some physicists like Paul Davies to express themselves in quasi-religious terms, as here: I belong to the group of scientists who do not subscribe to a conventional religion but nevertheless deny that the universe is a purposeless

the Cosmos . (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist, 1992). ISBN: 0809132214. ______ . The God of Evolution: A Trinitarian Theology . (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist, 1999). ISBN:0809138549. Ellis , George F.R. and Peter H. Collins. Before

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