The Nature of Nature: Examining the Role of Naturalism in Science

by Bruce L. Gordon (Editor), William A. Dembski (Editor)

The world’s leading authorities in the sciences and humanities—dozens of top scholars, including three Nobel laureates—join a cultural and intellectual battle that leaves no human life untouched. Is the universe self-existent, self-sufficient, and self-organizing, or is it grounded instead in a reality that transcends space, time, matter, and energy?

Table of Content can be found in the link.

Genres: Science, Philosophy, Evolution

963 pages, Paperback

First published February 15, 2010

Reviews

[Brian · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'd actually rate this book at 3.5 stars. After a painstaking two years to get through the nearly one-thousand pages, I was grateful for what I learned and for the end of the suffering. It was not an easy read. When you take 38 of the world's leading minds to discuss a wide range of topics in the natural sciences, you are bound to have issues. Some of the contributors are good writers; some were thoughtful enough to write for the masses as opposed to appealing primarily to their peers with insider language or specialized mathematics; some were methodical, and not all over the map; some made a good case with solid argumentation. But when you take the cross-product of these rubrics, you end up with maybe 20% of the chapters being outstanding.

[Jeffrey · Rating 3 out of 5]

Advanced work: covering quantum theory to natural theology this book moves fast and deep in a page. For those who have strong science backgrounds, an excellent work on methodological naturalism.