Divine Action and Modern Science [Paperback]

A radical critique of current attempts to reconcile natural sciences with the concept of divine action.Divine Action and Modern Science considers the relationship between the natural sciences and the concept of God acting in the world. It examines the Biblical motivations for asserting a continuing notion of divine action and identifies several different theological approaches to the problem. The book offers a radical critique of current attempts to reconcile special divine action with quantum theory, chaos theory and quantum chaos. It concludes that we are still far from a satisfactory account of how God might act in a manner that is consonant with modern science.Divine Action and Modern Science considers the relationship between the natural sciences and the concept of God acting in the world. It examines the Biblical motivations for asserting a continuing notion of divine action and identifies several different theological approaches to the problem. The book offers a radical critique of current attempts to reconcile special divine action with quantum theory, chaos theory and quantum chaos. It concludes that we are still far from a satisfactory account of how God might act in a manner that is consonant with modern science.Considering the relationship between the natural sciences and the concept of God acting in the world, this study examines the Biblical motivations for asserting a continuing belief in divine action. It is a radical critique of current attempts to reconcile special divine action with quantum theory, chaos theory and quantum chaos. The book concludes that a satisfactory account of how God might act in a manner that agrees with modern science is still lacking.Preface; 1. Motivations; 2. Theological approaches to divine action; 3. The laws of nature and miracles; 4. Determinism and SDA; 5. Divine action and quantum theory; 6. Does God cheat at dice?; 7. Chaos theory and divine action; 8. Whole-part models of SDA; 9. Is SDA really tenable?; Referencelc§