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Author Kragh, Helge, 1944-

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).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
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.
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Subject Cosmology -- Religious aspects -- History.
Cosmology.
History.
Cosmology -- Philosophy -- History.
Cosmology -- Philosophy.
Cosmology -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Cosmology -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Entropy -- Religious aspects.
Entropy.
Entropy -- Philosophy.
Entropy -- Philosophy.
Second law of thermodynamics.
Second law of thermodynamics.
Creationism.
Creationism.
Religion and science.
Religion and science.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Kragh, Helge, 1944- Entropic creation. Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2008 (DLC) 2007038440
ISBN 9780754682561 (electronic book)
0754682560 (electronic book)
9780754664147 (alkaline paper)
0754664147 (alkaline paper)