Reinventing the Sacred

Resumen del libro

Consider the complexity of a living cell after 3.8 billion years of evolution. Is it more awesome to suppose that a transcendent God fashioned the cell at a stroke, or to realize that it evolved with no Almighty Hand, but arose on its own in the changing biosphere? In this bold and fresh look at science and religion, complexity theorist Stuart Kauffman argues that the qualities of divinity that we revere creativity, meaning, purposeful action are properties of the universe that can be investigated methodically. He offers stunning evidence for this idea in an abundance of fields, from cell biology to the philosophy of mind, and uses it to find common ground between belief systems often at odds with one another. A daring and ambitious argument for a new understanding of natural divinity, Reinventing the Sacred challenges readers both scientifically and philosophically.

Biografía del autor

Stuart Kauffman es doctor en medicina, biólogo teórico e investigador de sistemas complejos. Ha sido profesor en las universidades de Chicago y Pennsylvania y en 1987 recibió el premio MacArthur por sus trabajos sobre biología evolutiva. Algunas de su obras fundamentales son The Origins of Order, At Home in the Universe, Investigaciones (Tusquets Editores, 2003) y Humanity in a Creative Universe.<br>