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1 online resource (xii, 131 pages) |
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Print version record. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Contents |
Chapter 1. Big Bangism; Chapter 2. Walking through Infinity; Chapter 3. Falling Trees; Chapter 4. The Improbable Being of God; Chapter 5. Progressive Evolution; Chapter 6. Relative Immortality; Chapter 7. Thou Shalt Not Kill; Chapter 8. The Three Compulsions (Contributions to a Theory of Quantum Psychology); Chapter 9. Atoms Think. |
| Summary |
This series of brief and sparkling philosophical essays explores the Principle of Continuity as it impacts discussions of the Big Bang and the expansion of the universe, God, infinity, biological immortality and evolution. From Ancient Greece to the frontiers of modern science, some egregious blunders have been made in both philosophy and in theoretical physics. The old theory of Continuous Creation was blown up by the Big Bang theory, but the author shows that this is just another ontological quagmire that conflicts with the First Law of Thermodynamics (conservation)and common sense. Surveyi. |
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Cosmology, Ancient.
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Immortality.
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Immortalism.
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SCIENCE -- Cosmology.
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Cosmology, Ancient. (OCoLC)fst00880618
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Immortalism. (OCoLC)fst00967851
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Immortality. (OCoLC)fst00967853
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sisti, Sebastian. Big bang and relative immortality. New York : Algora Pub., ©2008 (DLC) 2008017167 |
| Standard No. |
9786611793760 |
| ISBN |
9780875866086 (electronic bk.) |
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0875866085 (electronic bk.) |
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