Title Entropic creation : religious contexts of thermodynamics and cosmology / Helge S. Kragh.

Publication Info.	Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2008]
	©2008

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Description	1 online resource (272 pages).
Series	Science, technology, and culture, 1700-1945
	Science, technology, and culture, 1700-1945.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-264) and index.
Contents	Introduction -- Some early ideas on decay and creation -- Thermodynamics and the heat death -- The entropic creation argument -- Concepts of the universe -- Post-1920 developments -- Shadows from the past.
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.
Note	Print version record.
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.
	Entropy.
	RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
	RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Kragh, Helge, 1944- Entropic creation. Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2008 (DLC) 2007038440
ISBN	9780754682561 (electronic bk.)
	0754682560 (electronic bk.)

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