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Let There Be Light! | |
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A Unified Theory of Everything? | |
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The Riddle of Reality | |
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A Twofold Riddle | |
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The New Model of the World: Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo | |
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Church against Science | |
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The Victory of Science | |
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A Physical Description of the Beginning | |
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The New Physics: Einstein's Relativistic Space-Time | |
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An Expanding Universe | |
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The Big Bang and Its Consequences | |
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What Holds the World Together in Its Innermost Being? | |
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Heisenberg and Quantum Theory | |
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The World Formula-a Great Hope | |
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GUT instead of GOD? Hawking | |
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The World Formula-a Great Disappointment | |
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The Dispute about the Foundations of Mathematics | |
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Mathematics without Contradiction? Godel | |
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No Ultimate Theory of Everything | |
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Occasion for Self-Critical Reflection | |
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The Inadequacies of Positivism | |
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Rejection of the Meta-empirical? Popper | |
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Only Meaningless Pseudoproblems? | |
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The Impossibility of Proving All Statements True, Even in Science | |
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The Autonomy and Limits of Scientific Knowledge | |
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The Questionability of Reality | |
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Universe-Human Being-Self | |
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Multidimensional and Multilayered Reality | |
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Reason, but Not Reason Alone | |
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Science and Theology: Different Perspectives | |
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Science: The Foundation but Not the Totality | |
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Theology Too Needs Self-Criticism | |
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Physical Knowledge Cannot Transcend the World of Experience | |
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A Model of Complementarity instead of a Model of Confrontation or Integration | |
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God as Beginning? | |
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The Question of the Beginning of Beginnings | |
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The Singularity of the Beginning | |
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The "Copernican Shift" in Philosophy: Descartes | |
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Proofs of God-Doomed to Failure: Kant | |
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Counterproofs Also Fail | |
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Science Blocked by the Critique of Religion? | |
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The Rights and Wrongs of the Critique of Religion: Feuerbach, Marx, Freud | |
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The Death of God? Nietzsche | |
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Science Must Leave God Out of Account | |
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Atheism Is Understandable but Not Necessary | |
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Where Do the Constants in Nature Come From? | |
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A Universe Finite in Space and Time | |
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Intellectual Helplessness in the Face of the Question of Origins | |
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Where Do the Principles of Cosmic Order Come From? | |
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Instinctive Opposition | |
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Reactions to the Cosmic Fine-Tuning | |
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Cosmological Speculation: Alternative Universes | |
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Is Our Universe One among Many? | |
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A Cosmological Demonstration: A Designer Universe | |
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Can God Be Proved by Physics? | |
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A Questionable Basic Motivation | |
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Why Isn't There Nothing? | |
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A Solution to the Riddle of the World | |
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Ignorance Also Grows with Knowledge | |
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Approaching the Primal Mystery | |
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God as Hypothesis | |
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God as Reality | |
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An Archimedean Point | |
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Creation of the World or Evolution? | |
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The Beginning as the Beginning of a Becoming | |
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Evolution of the Biological Species: Darwin | |
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The Descent of Human Beings from the Animal Kingdom | |
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Theological Defense | |
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Anglican Perplexity | |
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A Second Galileo Case for the Catholic Church | |
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Protestant Creationism | |
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Evolution with or without God? | |
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Progress without God: Comte | |
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Evolution to God: Teilhard De Chardin | |
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God in Process: Whitehead | |
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How Are We to Think of God? | |
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An Alternative to the Word "God"? | |
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God-a Being above the Earth? | |
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Space-Time, Embraced by Eternity and Unfathomability | |
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Is God a Person? | |
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Bible and Creation | |
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Creation Myths of the World Religions | |
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A Need for Information? | |
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The Magna Carta of the Jewish-Christian Worldview | |
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A Metaphorical Language | |
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No Harmonization or Mixing | |
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The Testimony of Faith to the Ultimate Origin | |
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Creation of Space and Time from Nothing | |
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What Is the Meaning of Belief in Creation Today? | |
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"In Light Inaccessible" | |
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Life in the Cosmos? | |
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How Long Has There Been Life? | |
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What Is "Life"? | |
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Are We Alone in the Universe? | |
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A Vain Quest | |
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How Did Life Arise? | |
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The Vehicles of Life | |
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Matter Organizes Itself | |
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Chance or Necessity? | |
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The Primacy of Chance? | |
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Natural Laws Guide Chance | |
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Is God Superfluous? | |
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An Existential Alternative | |
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Why a Universe That Is Friendly to Life? | |
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Evolution toward Human Beings | |
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An Anthropic Principle? | |
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No Ultimate Foundation | |
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Miracle | |
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Breaking the Laws of Nature? | |
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Results of Biblical Criticism | |
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Pointers for Faith | |
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How Are We to Think of God's Activity? | |
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A Spiritualized Understanding of God | |
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The Infinite Has an Influence on the Finite | |
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No Competition between God and the World | |
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The Beginning of Humankind | |
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The Physical Development of Human Beings | |
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Phylogenesis | |
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Human Beings Come from Africa | |
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Earliest Traces of Religion | |
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The Psychological Development of Human Beings | |
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The Body-Soul Problem | |
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Psyche instead of Soul | |
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Conditioned Freedom | |
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Environmentally Conditioned and Preprogrammed | |
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Brain and Mind | |
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Determined by Physical-Chemical Brain Processes? | |
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Is Free Will an Illusion? | |
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The Trivialization of Responsibility and Guilt by the Neurosciences | |
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The Limits of Brain Research | |
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Ignorance about the Decisive Levels of the Brain | |
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The Big Questions of the Neurosciences | |
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Chemistry and Physics Do Not Explain the Self | |
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Experience of Freedom | |
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The Spiritual Cosmos | |
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The Beginnings of the Human Ethic | |
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Evolutionary Biological and Sociocultural Factors | |
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The Primal Ethic as the Basis for a Global Ethic | |
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Even the Biblical Ethic Has a History | |
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The One Light and the Many Lights | |
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Epilogue: The End of All Things | |
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Hypotheses of the End in Physics | |
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Apocalyptic Visions of the End | |
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The Significance of the Biblical Visions | |
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Dying into the Light | |
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A Word of Thanks | |
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Index | |