The far-future universe : eschatology from a cosmic perspective / edited by George F.R. Ellis.
Contributor(s): Ellis, George F. R. (George Francis Rayner)
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TextPublisher: Philadelphia : Templeton Foundation Press, [2002]Copyright date: ©2002Description: ix, 384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1890151904 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Cosmology | EschatologyDDC classification: 523.1 LOC classification: QB981 | .F175 2002Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| QB981 .C5 The Origin of the earth / | QB981 .C66 Cosmos, Earth, and man : a short history of the universe / | QB981 .E3 1958 The Expanding universe / | QB981 .F175 2002 The far-future universe : eschatology from a cosmic perspective / | QB981 .F7413 1984 The Creation of matter : the universe from beginning to end / | QB981 .H377 1988 A brief history of time : from the big bang to black holes / | QB981 .J27 1978 God and the astronomers / |
"The present book about events all the way at the end of time grew out of a symposium sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation under the aegis of its Humble Approach Initiative"--Pref.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface / Mary Ann Meyers -- Introduction / George F.R. Ellis -- Seeking the future: a theological perspective / George V. Coyne -- Far, far future / John D. Barrow -- Eternity: who needs it? / Paul Davies -- Time of the universe / Michael Heller -- Living in a multiverse / Martin J. Rees -- Exotic genetic materials and the extent of life in the universe / A. Graham Cairns-Smith -- Time without end: physics and biology in an open universe / Freeman J. Dyson -- Life in the universe: is life digital or analogue? / Freeman J. Dyson -- Does biology have an eschatology, and if so does it have cosmological implications? / Simon Conway Morris -- Deep time: does it matter? / Stephen R.L. Clark -- Games that end in a bang or a whimper / Steven J. Brams and D. Marc Kilgour -- Artificial intelligence and the far future / Margaret A. Boden -- Cosmic eschatology versus human eschatology / Owen Gingerich -- Cosmology and religious ideas about the end of the world / Keith Ward -- Cosmos and theosis: eschatological perspectives on the future of the universe / Jurgen Moltmann -- Eschatology and physical cosmology: a preliminary reflection / Robert John Russell -- Natures of existence (temporal and eternal) / George F.R. Ellis -- Appendix: Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) / Stephen R.L. Clark