Author: Anne Harris
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312865384
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
A bio-technology corporation creates a new species--intelligent, four-armed, humanoid "tetras" who can live in the vats in which the company grows biopolymers--and soon the victims become the aggressors in this new SF thriller by the author of "The Nature of Smoke".
Accidental Creatures
Author: Anne Harris
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312865384
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
A bio-technology corporation creates a new species--intelligent, four-armed, humanoid "tetras" who can live in the vats in which the company grows biopolymers--and soon the victims become the aggressors in this new SF thriller by the author of "The Nature of Smoke".
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312865384
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
A bio-technology corporation creates a new species--intelligent, four-armed, humanoid "tetras" who can live in the vats in which the company grows biopolymers--and soon the victims become the aggressors in this new SF thriller by the author of "The Nature of Smoke".
Creatures of Accident
Author: Wallace Arthur
Publisher: Hill and Wang
ISBN: 1466801794
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The most important aspect of evolution, from a philosophical viewpoint, is the rise of complex, advanced creatures from simple, primitive ones. This "vertical" dimension of evolution has been downplayed in both the specialist and popular literature on evolution, in large part because it was in the past associated with unsavory political views. The avoidance of evolution's vertical dimension has, however, left evolutionary biology open to the perception, from outside, that it deals merely with the diversification of rather similar creatures, all at the same level of "advancedness" from a common ancestor—for example, the classic case studies of finches with different beaks or moths of different colors. The latest incarnation of creationism, dubbed intelligent design (or ID), has taken advantage of this situation. It portrays an evolutionary process that is constantly guided—especially in its upward direction—by the hand of an unseen Creator, who is able to ensure that it ends up producing humans. Creatures of Accident attacks the antiscience ID worldview, mainly by building a persuasive picture of how "unaided" evolution produces advanced creatures from simple ones by an essentially accidental process. Having built this picture, in the final chapter the book reflects on its religious implications.
Publisher: Hill and Wang
ISBN: 1466801794
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The most important aspect of evolution, from a philosophical viewpoint, is the rise of complex, advanced creatures from simple, primitive ones. This "vertical" dimension of evolution has been downplayed in both the specialist and popular literature on evolution, in large part because it was in the past associated with unsavory political views. The avoidance of evolution's vertical dimension has, however, left evolutionary biology open to the perception, from outside, that it deals merely with the diversification of rather similar creatures, all at the same level of "advancedness" from a common ancestor—for example, the classic case studies of finches with different beaks or moths of different colors. The latest incarnation of creationism, dubbed intelligent design (or ID), has taken advantage of this situation. It portrays an evolutionary process that is constantly guided—especially in its upward direction—by the hand of an unseen Creator, who is able to ensure that it ends up producing humans. Creatures of Accident attacks the antiscience ID worldview, mainly by building a persuasive picture of how "unaided" evolution produces advanced creatures from simple ones by an essentially accidental process. Having built this picture, in the final chapter the book reflects on its religious implications.
The Accidental Apprentice
Author: Amanda Foody
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 153447756X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Eleven-year-old Barclay Thorne yearns for the quiet life of a mushroom farmer, but after unwittingly bonding with a beast in the forbidden Woods, he must seek Lore Keepers to break the bond and return home.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 153447756X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Eleven-year-old Barclay Thorne yearns for the quiet life of a mushroom farmer, but after unwittingly bonding with a beast in the forbidden Woods, he must seek Lore Keepers to break the bond and return home.
Actuality
Author: C. W. Adams
Publisher: CW Adams
ISBN: 141962119X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
This collection of essays delivers realistic and logical answers to our probing questions of life with refreshing scientific grounding. Actuality uncovers the essential elements for understanding our true nature and reason for existence. Common occurrences, everyday observations and scientific data give the reader clear and logical answers. Once establishing these clear answers, Actuality goes deeper, offering the reader a clear pathway towards transcendental realization.
Publisher: CW Adams
ISBN: 141962119X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
This collection of essays delivers realistic and logical answers to our probing questions of life with refreshing scientific grounding. Actuality uncovers the essential elements for understanding our true nature and reason for existence. Common occurrences, everyday observations and scientific data give the reader clear and logical answers. Once establishing these clear answers, Actuality goes deeper, offering the reader a clear pathway towards transcendental realization.
Free Creatures of an Eternal God
Author: Harm J. M. J. Goris
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
ISBN: 9789068318661
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
(Peeters 1996)
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
ISBN: 9789068318661
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
(Peeters 1996)
Only Human
Author: Jenny Diski
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 1466853077
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
What if God fell in love and the person was already married? A bitter story of the very first love triangle between a man, his wife, and their God First came Adam, whose fall soured His quest for absolute authority, then Noah, whose dreary sense of duty He found dull. God resolves for a third and final time to get it right, to select a vessel through whom He can direct human affairs, and to whom He can communicate directly His will. He chooses a solitary figure whose trust must be wooed, but whose faith, once secured, will surely reflect even greater glory and love. Were matters only that simple. In Only Human, Jenny Diski's brilliant and affecting retelling of the Abraham and Sarah story, God learns that no man, chosen or not, is solitary, and that the bonds forged by the human heart are resilient even to divine commandment. Diski transforms an archetypal tale of Old Testament obedience into a fierce love triangle, a test of wills over not only mankind's future, but over who will tell the story of its past.
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 1466853077
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
What if God fell in love and the person was already married? A bitter story of the very first love triangle between a man, his wife, and their God First came Adam, whose fall soured His quest for absolute authority, then Noah, whose dreary sense of duty He found dull. God resolves for a third and final time to get it right, to select a vessel through whom He can direct human affairs, and to whom He can communicate directly His will. He chooses a solitary figure whose trust must be wooed, but whose faith, once secured, will surely reflect even greater glory and love. Were matters only that simple. In Only Human, Jenny Diski's brilliant and affecting retelling of the Abraham and Sarah story, God learns that no man, chosen or not, is solitary, and that the bonds forged by the human heart are resilient even to divine commandment. Diski transforms an archetypal tale of Old Testament obedience into a fierce love triangle, a test of wills over not only mankind's future, but over who will tell the story of its past.
A History of the Concept of God
Author: Daniel A. Dombrowski
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438459378
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
A history of the concept of God through the lens of process thought.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438459378
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
A history of the concept of God through the lens of process thought.
This Sacred Life
Author: Norman Wirzba
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316515648
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
This Sacred Life redescribes the meaning of this world and the value and purpose of human life within it.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316515648
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
This Sacred Life redescribes the meaning of this world and the value and purpose of human life within it.
Tales of the Goddessi
Author: Heather Ranier
Publisher: FastPencil Inc
ISBN: 1607464454
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Every Tale has its beginning, though this one begins in the middle. In the World of the Nine Goddessi, in the South Woods where the branches of the trees twist so tightly amongst themselves that light only bleeds through at the height of noons, a strange girl is born, fully grown and fully clothed. At her side is a man whose touch burns her skin and a beast who appears and disappears like a shadow. In her head is a voice that insists it is the real owner of both her body and her Tale. She is led through the World by the man with the burning hands until he bursts into flames and falls to ashes. A chat with the goddess of death assures her that he is not dead but still at large somewhere, beginning her journey through the lands of the World. But while every step changes her Tale, her Tale begins to change the World, for she is like nothing the World has ever seen. Welcome to the World Travel the World of the Nine Goddesi, the burning lands of the Greater and Lesser Deserts where the orthodox fire goddess's worshipers hunt and race and war among themselves. Watch the barely-clad bathing beauties of the water goddess by the lakes and on the shore of Kalilandrau, the Great Salt Sea. The stolid stone people carve their homes from the hearts of mountains and carve a trade track for ever-moving Caravans across the World, even unto the White Lands where the people of the Fallen Star go about ever in masks and create things too wondrous to be mere magic. In the forests where the Twins reign, their worshippers live in eternal twilight and bend their backs at hoeing grains and drive their herds through the dangerous swaths of highgrass where the Bane lie in wait to steal children and cut the throats of intruders to drink of their blood. But should these dangers overcome you, the grey people of the goddess of Death will be there to guide you to the Far Lands, where good and bad go alike to live again. And beyond it's strange geography and cultures, the World is an even more foreign place. Here, men make Tales. And Tales make men and thing far stranger than men. In the World, all Tales are true. Come. The World awaits.
Publisher: FastPencil Inc
ISBN: 1607464454
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Every Tale has its beginning, though this one begins in the middle. In the World of the Nine Goddessi, in the South Woods where the branches of the trees twist so tightly amongst themselves that light only bleeds through at the height of noons, a strange girl is born, fully grown and fully clothed. At her side is a man whose touch burns her skin and a beast who appears and disappears like a shadow. In her head is a voice that insists it is the real owner of both her body and her Tale. She is led through the World by the man with the burning hands until he bursts into flames and falls to ashes. A chat with the goddess of death assures her that he is not dead but still at large somewhere, beginning her journey through the lands of the World. But while every step changes her Tale, her Tale begins to change the World, for she is like nothing the World has ever seen. Welcome to the World Travel the World of the Nine Goddesi, the burning lands of the Greater and Lesser Deserts where the orthodox fire goddess's worshipers hunt and race and war among themselves. Watch the barely-clad bathing beauties of the water goddess by the lakes and on the shore of Kalilandrau, the Great Salt Sea. The stolid stone people carve their homes from the hearts of mountains and carve a trade track for ever-moving Caravans across the World, even unto the White Lands where the people of the Fallen Star go about ever in masks and create things too wondrous to be mere magic. In the forests where the Twins reign, their worshippers live in eternal twilight and bend their backs at hoeing grains and drive their herds through the dangerous swaths of highgrass where the Bane lie in wait to steal children and cut the throats of intruders to drink of their blood. But should these dangers overcome you, the grey people of the goddess of Death will be there to guide you to the Far Lands, where good and bad go alike to live again. And beyond it's strange geography and cultures, the World is an even more foreign place. Here, men make Tales. And Tales make men and thing far stranger than men. In the World, all Tales are true. Come. The World awaits.
God, Science, and Society: The Origin of the Universe, Intelligent Life, and Free Societies
Author: Anthony Walsh
Publisher: Vernon Press
ISBN: 1622739558
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
“It may seem bizarre, but in my opinion, science offers a surer path to God than religion…science has actually advanced to the point where what were formerly religious questions can be seriously tackled” (Paul Davies, Astrophysicist). Anthony Walsh’s latest riposte to atheistic arguments against God's existence draws on Natural Theology, a knowledge of God based on evidence from both the natural and social sciences. Covering everything from the Big Bang and the origins of life to the mystery of intelligent consciousness, Walsh makes even the most technical scientific writings accessible to the general reader and tackles a question few books on the relationship between science and religion have ever sought to address: how does Christianity positively affect societies, families, and individuals in terms of democracy, justice, happiness, health, and prosperity?
Publisher: Vernon Press
ISBN: 1622739558
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
“It may seem bizarre, but in my opinion, science offers a surer path to God than religion…science has actually advanced to the point where what were formerly religious questions can be seriously tackled” (Paul Davies, Astrophysicist). Anthony Walsh’s latest riposte to atheistic arguments against God's existence draws on Natural Theology, a knowledge of God based on evidence from both the natural and social sciences. Covering everything from the Big Bang and the origins of life to the mystery of intelligent consciousness, Walsh makes even the most technical scientific writings accessible to the general reader and tackles a question few books on the relationship between science and religion have ever sought to address: how does Christianity positively affect societies, families, and individuals in terms of democracy, justice, happiness, health, and prosperity?