Treating the traditional God concept, as conventionally presented in the Judeo-Christian and Islamic traditions, like any other scientific hypothesis, this work examines the claims made for God's existence. It considers the Intelligent Design arguments as evidence of God's influence in biology.
From marsupials to bats to carnivores to cetaceans, fully one-fourth of the world's mammals can be found on the South American continent. Rexford D. Lord provides the most vivid snapshot of South American fauna ever produced. With 252 stunning photographsmost taken by the author during his 40 years as an ecologist and mammalogist in the ......
Compares Hindu and Christian ideas about God and humans. This work helps Christians make sense of Eastern notions of God. It teaches readers about the non-dualistic thought of 8th century Hindu thinker Sankara and the Christian pantheism (belief in and worship of all Gods) of Paul Tillich. It presents a fresh theology of God and human beings.
A number of powerful arguments have been formulated by philosophers and logicians, which assume that God's existence is possible, but argue that the weight of the empirical evidence is against God's actual existence. This anthology collects most of the important arguments that have been published since the mid 1900s.
Summarising the key concepts, terminology, and major contributions of influential thinkers associated with atheism, scepticism, and humanism, this title discusses notions such as God, free will, and evil to concepts such as 'eupraxsophy'. Also included are 'buzzwords' that have some bearing on the free thought worldview such as 'metrosexual'.
David E. Alexander's fascination with the many animals and plants that have harnessed the air is evident in Nature's Flyers: Birds, Insects, and the Biomechanics of Flight, a detailed account of our current scientific understanding of the primary aspects of flight in nature.Instead of relying on elaborate mathematical equations, Alexander explains ......
The Extraordinary Story of How a Curious Creature Baffled the World
When the first platypus specimen reached England from Australia in 1799, the scientific community claimed that it was a hoax. On closer investigation, dubious European naturalists eventually declared it to be real, though in an age obsessed with classification, the category-defying platypus sparked heated debates across Europe for a century. In ......
Theologian Stanley Grenz here tells the story of trinitarian theology in the last century. He analyzes the remarkable ferment in the discipline and discusses key theologians on such issues as God's inner life versus God's relationship to creation.
Oak Forest Ecosystems focuses on the relationship between an oak forest's acorn yield and species of wildlife that depend on it. It begins by treating factors such as oak distribution, forest fires, tree diseases and pests, dynamics of acorn production, and acorn dispersal by birds and mammals. Special consideration is given to the phenomenon of ......
