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Creation and Complexity are two themes that draw the sciences and theology together. The remarkable advances of science in the modern period have opened up new knowledge and revealed ever deepening layers of complexity in the world from the cosmic macro level to the micro world of quantum. There seems no end to the rich tapestry of the cosmic order and process.
A science of complexity has been spawned.
The discoveries of the sciences have been matched in the twentieth century by a renewal in the doctrine of creation. Behind this lies a renaissance in trinitarian thinking which offers fresh insight into the dynamic of God in creation - past, present and future. The complexity of the triune God in creation find echoes in the rich complexity of the world uncovered by the contemporary sciences.
This book explores the nature of complexity in God's creation.
Contents
Foreward
Contributors
Introduction
Christine Ledger and Stephen Pickard
Part One. A Complex World
- A primer on complexity: definitions, theories, and theological perspectives
Niels Henrik Gregersen
- Models of invisible realities: the common thread in science and theology
Carolyn M King
Part Two. Evolutionary Biology
- Interpretations of complexity in natureL Teilhard to Maynard Smith
Carolyn M King
- A world made to flourish: divine design and the idea of natural self-organisation
Niels Henrik Gregersen
- The cloning of human cells: an Australian response to the scientific issues from an ethical and theological perspective
John W White, Fraser Bergersen, Graeme Garrett, Patricia Ewing, Jonathan Clarke
- A process-based model for an ontology of activity
Richard Campbell
Part Three. Cosmology
- The absence of God or a surer path to God? The origin of the universe in science and theology
David Wilkinson
- Time and eternity as scientific and theological problem
Mark Worthing
- The end of it all: cosmology and Christian eschatology in dialogue
David Wilkinson
Index
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