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Origin(s) of Design in Nature

A Fresh, Interdisciplinary Look at How Design Emerges in Complex Systems, Especially Life

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Editors:
  1. Liz Swan

    1. Longmont, USA

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  2. Richard Gordon

    1. Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory, Panacea, USA

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  3. Joseph Seckbach

    1. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

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  • The volume offers a pluralistic approach to design in nature
  • Both scientific and theological aspects of design are considered the volume is very multi-disciplinary

Part of the book series: Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology (COLE, volume 23)

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Table of contents (45 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  2. Origin of Design

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2
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    2. The Initial Low Gravitational Entropy of the Universe as the Origin of Design in Nature

      • Charles H. Lineweaver, Chas A. Egan
      Pages 3-16

    3. On the Biological Origin of Design in Nature

      • Attila Grandpierre
      Pages 17-41

    4. Creativity in Nature

      • Steve McGrew
      Pages 43-55

  4. Theological Aspects of Design

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-192
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    2. The Best Mislaid Plans: A Religious Approach to the Question of the Planning of Reality

      • Yisrael Rozenson
      Pages 193-205

    3. Judaism and Evolution in Four Dimensions: Biological, Spiritual, Cultural, and Intellectual

      • Shlomo E. Glicksberg
      Pages 207-220

    4. Random Natural Laws Versus Direct Trends: A Cabbalistic Interpretation Based on the Teachings of Rabbi Kook

      • Dov Berger
      Pages 221-237

    5. The Identity of Designer and Design

      • Klaus Konrad Klostermaier
      Pages 239-254

    6. In the Beginning There Was Lightning: Fulguro-Genesis and Eduard Loewenthal’s Religion of Religions

      • Elisabeth Rees-Dessauer
      Pages 255-270

    7. Structure and Creativeness: A Reinterpretation of the Neo-Confucian Binary Category Li 理 and Qi 氣

      • Jana S. Rošker
      Pages 271-285

    8. Evolution: The Biblical Account of Life’s Development

      • Gerald L. Schroeder
      Pages 287-297
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Origin(s) of Design in Nature is a collection of over 40 articles from prominent researchers in the life, physical, and social sciences, medicine, and the philosophy of science that all address the philosophical and scientific question of how design emerged in the natural world. The volume offers a large variety of perspectives on the design debate including progressive accounts from artificial life, embryology, complexity, cosmology, theology and the philosophy of biology. This book is volume 23 of the series, Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology. www.springer.com/series/5775

Editors and Affiliations

  • Longmont, USA

    Liz Swan

  • Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory, Panacea, USA

    Richard Gordon

  • Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

    Joseph Seckbach

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