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Consider the complexity of a living cell after 3.8 billion years of evolution. Is it more awesome to suppose that a transcendent God fashioned the cell at a stroke, or to

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 21 November 1996

A major scientific revolution has begun, a new paradigm that rivals Darwin's theory in importance. At its heart is the discovery of the order that lies deep within the most

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 03 June 2024

Much of Stuart Kauffman's work in the philosophy of evolutionary biology has centered on the question of what he calls "prestatability" in evolution: that is, whether or not science can

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The collapse of industrial civilization is rapidly unfolding and offers us an opportunity far beyond mere survival, even as it renders absurd any attempts to “fix” or prevent the end

• Publisher : Univ of California Press
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• Release Date : 29 June 2000

Over the past two decades, North Americans have become increasingly interested in understanding and reclaiming the rites that mark significant life passages. In the absence of meaningful rites of passage,

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 01 April 2019

How did life start? Is the evolution of life describable by any physics-like laws? Stuart Kauffman's latest book offers an explanation-beyond what the laws of physics can explain-of the progression

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
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• Release Date : 15 September 2008

The Dalai Lama has said that Tibetans consider themselves “the child of Indian civilization” and that India is the “holy land” from whose sources the Tibetans have built their own

• Publisher : Univ of California Press
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• Release Date : 28 April 2023

During the past thirty years the American religious landscape has undergone a dramatic change. More and more churches meet in converted warehouses, many have ministers who've never attended a seminary,

• Publisher : University of Illinois Press
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What is public religion? How does it manifest the sacred? Wuthnow states that cultural expressions, religious or otherwise, do not simply happen but are produced. He considers the major organizational

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An original reinterpretation of Eve and the Garden of Eden that offers women a new sense of feminine power and opportunity.