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Toward a Holistic Theory Reality
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14586 |
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BOOK WORLD
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5 / 1988 |
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J.W.P. Traphagan
J.W.P. Traphagan is a graduate of Yale Divinity School and is
currently studying at Andover Newton Theological School. |
THE COSMIC BLUEPRINT
Paul Davies
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988
224 pp., $17.95
THE MIRACLE OF EXISTENCE
Henry Margenau
Boston: Shambhala, 1987
143 pp., $9.95
ONE WORLD
The Interaction of Science and Theology
John Polkinghorne
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986
114 pp., $7.95
"Truth is never pure, and rarely simple."
--Oscar Wilde
Since the seventeenth century, the quest for knowledge has primarily centered around attempts to explain the phenomena of life by reducing human experience to the basic laws and methods of physics, chemistry, and biology. In the twentieth century, however, physicists, biologists, and neurophysiologists have proposed theories that challenge traditional scientific method. Consequently, revised beliefs have arisen about the nature of reality and the degree to which the laws of one kind of experience can be applied to
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