The constant fire : beyond the science vs. religion debate / Adam Frank.
Pubblicazione:
Berkeley : University of California press, c2009.
Descrizione fisica:
XI, 288 p. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Acknowledgments. Prologue: House of the rising sun. Pt. 1: The map: reimagining science, myth, and the sacred: 1. The roots of conflict: science and religion before divorce 2. The conflict we know: religion, science, and the modern world 3. Science and the sacred: telescopes, microscopes, and Hierophanies 4. Not the God you pray to: the varieties of scientists' religious experience 5. Science, myth, and sacred narratives: the universe as story. 107 Pt. 2. The terrain: sacred narratives in science and myth: 6. The origin of everything: big bangs, the multiverse, and the parade of ants 7. The deluge this time: climate change and flood myths. Pt. 3. A new path to the waterfall: science, myth, truth and the future: 8. Music of the spheres: truth, myth, and science 9. A need born of fire: mythos, ethos, and humanity's most dangerous century. Epilogue: Fire in the open mind. Notes. Index
