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Owen Gingerich

God's Universe

by Owen Gingerich

Owen Gingerich believes in a universe of intention and purpose. Taking Johannes Kepler as his guide, he argues that an individual can be both a creative scientist and a believer in divine design—that indeed the very motivation for scientific research can derive from a desire to trace God’s handiwork. The scientist with theistic metaphysics will approach laboratory problems much the same as does his atheistic colleague across the hall. Both are likely to view the astonishing adaptation in nature with a sense of surprise, wonder, and mystery.


In God’s Universe Gingerich carves out a “theistic space” from which it is possible to contemplate a universe where god plays an interactive role, unnoticed yet not excluded by science.

 

 

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