Entropic creation : religious contexts of thermodynamics and cosmology /

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Author / Creator:	Kragh, Helge, 1944-
Imprint:	Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2008.
Description:	1 online resource (272 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Science, technology, and culture, 1700-1945 Science, technology, and culture, 1700-1945.
Subject:	Cosmology -- Religious aspects -- History. Cosmology -- Philosophy -- History. Cosmology -- History -- 19th century. Cosmology -- History -- 20th century. Entropy -- Religious aspects. Entropy -- Philosophy. Second law of thermodynamics. Creationism. Religion and science. Cosmology. Cosmology -- Philosophy. Creationism. Entropy -- Philosophy. Religion and science. Second law of thermodynamics. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11217360

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ISBN:	9780754682561 0754682560 9780754664147 0754664147
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-264) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Entropic Creation is the first book to consider the cultural and religious responses to the second law of thermodynamics, and the theory proposed by certain Christian scholars during the period 1860 to 1920 that the entropic creation argument is proof of a divine creation of the world.
Other form:	Print version: Kragh, Helge, 1944- Entropic creation. Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2008

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