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008			940608s1994 miua b 001 0 eng
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050	0	4	_aQ172.S771.N683 1994
100	1		_aSproul, R. C. _q(Robert Charles), _d1939-, _e1
245	1	0	_aNot a chance : _bthe myth of chance in modern science and cosmology / _cR.C. Sproul. _hPR
260			_aGrand Rapids, Michigan : _bBaker Books, _c(c)1994.
300			_axiv, 234 pages : _billustrations ; _c23 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_a1 (pages 221-223) and index.
520	0		_aAnnouncing the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the news reporter began: "Fifteen to 17 billion years ago the universe exploded into being." "Exploded into being?" mused R. C. Sproul. "Does this mean that 15 billion years ago the universe exploded from non-being into being? Then what exploded?" In Not a Chance Sproul takes a hard look at such conundrums: Just what is chance? Can it account for what is? As a respected Christian apologist, theologian, and philosopher, R. C. Sproul might be expected to find causation through chance a hard pill to swallow. But in Not a Chance we learn that he is not alone. Among others troubled by chance probability ... David Hume: "Chance is only our ignorance of real causes"; Charles Darwin: "I cannot look at the universe as a result of blind chance."; Albert Einstein: "Quantum physics is certainly imposing, but an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing ... I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice." In a lively dialog with modern thinkers from Hume to Niels Bohr and Carl Sagan, Not a Chance consults laws of logic, linguistic and scientific theory, and mathematical understandings to probe the cause-effect relationship. Not a Chance invites all students of life to approach, with eyes open and mind alert, the wobbly pedestal from which chance rules modern cosmology.
530			_a2
650		0	_aSerendipity in science.
650		0	_aChance.
650		0	_aScience _xPhilosophy.
650		0	_aCosmology.
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