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Modern Physics and Ancient Faith de Stephen M. Barr

Modern Physics and Ancient Faith

Autor Stephen M. Barr
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 feb 2003

În contextul programelor de studii care explorează intersecția dintre filozofia științei și teologie, volumul Modern Physics and Ancient Faith reprezintă o resursă fundamentală pentru înțelegerea modului în care descoperirile secolului XX au modificat peisajul intelectual. Reținem că miza autorului nu este combaterea metodei științifice, ci deconstrucția „materialismului științific” — o filozofie care postulează că realitatea ultimă este exclusiv materia. Merită menționat că Stephen M. Barr utilizează riguros datele din fizica particulelor și cosmologie pentru a demonstra că universul nu este un produs accidental al forțelor oarbe, ci prezintă o structură compatibilă cu viziunea iudeo-creștină.

Putem afirma că lucrarea extinde cadrul propus de Theology and Modern Physics de Peter E. Hodgson cu date noi din domeniul mecanicii cuantice și al teoremei lui Gödel, oferind o argumentație mai tehnică, dar la fel de accesibilă. Spre deosebire de God and the New Physics de Paul Davies, care sugerează că știința poate înlocui religia ca cale spre divinitate, Barr susține o consonanță profundă între cele două, unde descoperirile fizicii confirmă intuițiile credinței antice. În contextul operei sale, acest volum consolidează temele explorate în The Believing Scientist, trecând de la eseuri despre viața de cercetător la o analiză sistematică a fundamentelor cosmologice. Structura narativă este una logică, ritmul fiind impus de complexitatea fenomenelor explicate, de la singularitatea inițială la complexitatea minții umane, oferind o alternativă coerentă la viziunea mecanicistă a secolului al XIX-lea.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780268021986
ISBN-10: 0268021988
Pagini: 328
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Notre Dame Press

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este ideală pentru cititorii pasionați de cosmologie care doresc să înțeleagă de ce știința modernă nu elimină necesitatea lui Dumnezeu. Veți câștiga o perspectivă avizată asupra modului în care fizica cuantică și matematica avansată pun sub semnul întrebării determinismul materialist. Este un ghid clar pentru oricine caută să împace rigoarea academică cu convingerile spirituale, oferind argumente logice împotriva ideii că universul este un simplu accident.

Despre autor

Stephen M. Barr este un distins fizician teoretician, profesor emerit în cadrul Departamentului de Fizică și Astronomie de la Universitatea din Delaware. Cercetările sale se concentrează pe teoriile marii unificări, cosmologie și fizica particulelor elementare. Pe lângă cariera sa științifică remarcabilă, Barr este un intelectual catolic influent, fiind fondatorul Societății Oamenilor de Știință Catolici. Lucrările sale, precum The Believing Scientist și contribuțiile din Christ Across the Disciplines, reflectă angajamentul său de a demonstra armonia dintre rigoarea cercetării empirice și tradiția teologică, fiind recunoscut pentru claritatea cu care explică concepte abstracte.

Descriere scurtă

A considerable amount of public debate and media print has been devoted to the “war between science and religion.” In his accessible and eminently readable new book, Stephen M. Barr demonstrates that what is really at war with religion is not science itself, but a philosophy called scientific materialism. Modern Physics and Ancient Faith argues that the great discoveries of modern physics are more compatible with the central teachings of Christianity and Judaism about God, the cosmos, and the human soul than with the atheistic viewpoint of scientific materialism.
Scientific materialism grew out of scientific discoveries made from the time of Copernicus up to the beginning of the twentieth century. These discoveries led many thoughtful people to the conclusion that the universe has no cause or purpose, that the human race is an accidental by-product of blind material forces, and that the ultimate reality is matter itself. Barr contends that the revolutionary discoveries of the twentieth century run counter to this line of thought. He uses five of these discoveries—the Big Bang theory, unified field theories, anthropic coincidences, Gödel’s Theorem in mathematics, and quantum theory—to cast serious doubt on the materialist’s view of the world and to give greater credence to Judeo-Christian claims about God and the universe.
 
Written in clear language, Barr’s rigorous and fair text explains modern physics to general readers without oversimplification. Using the insights of modern physics, he reveals that modern scientific discoveries and religious faith are deeply consonant. Anyone with an interest in science and religion will find Modern Physics and Ancient Faith invaluable.
 
“A modern physicist who writes with extraordinary clarity and verve, and is familiar with the intellectual arguments long used by the ancient faiths, Stephen Barr gives a brilliant defense of the integrity of science in the teeth of its most powerful modern bias, by telling the exciting story of the rise, complacency, and fall of scientific materialism. As his story crackles along, and just at the point of reaching really difficult concepts, he has a knack for inventing illustrations that make one's inner light bulbs flash again and again.” —Michael Novak, Winner of the 1994 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion
 
“Barr has produced a brilliant and authoritative defense of Biblical faith in the light of contemporary science. He perceives a serious conflict, not between modern physics and ancient faith, but between religion and materialism. I know of no other book that makes the case against materialism so lucidly, honestly, and deftly.” —Owen Gingerich, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
 
“Written from the viewpoint of an accomplished physicist, this book is an invaluable contribution to the growing interest in the relationship between science and religion. The arguments are rigorously logical and the documentation is excellent.” —Robert Scherrer, Ohio State University

Recenzii

“In Modern Physics and Ancient Faith, Barr skillfully masters both physics and theology. . . . His work is a thing of scholarly beauty.” —Science & Theology News
 

“In this well-reasoned and accessible book, Stephen Barr argues against the idea that modern science has discredited belief in God. Barr, an accomplished theoretical particle physicist currently at the University of Delaware and a lay Roman Catholic, adroitly marshals recent developments in the natural and computer sciences to show that science, far from clearly discrediting religious belief, can in many instances reasonably be construed to support it. The book is well documented, and the exposition is masterful, making it a valuable asset for those theists wanting to learn more about the ways in which the sciences can contribute to the materialist-theist debate.” —Journal of Religion

"Stephen Barr does heroic service with his book Modern Physics and Ancient Faith as a revolutionary insurgent within the intellectual hegemony of modern scientific materialism." —Crisis Magazine

“It is a happy day indeed when one finds a work by a scientist that is so clear, based upon serious reflection, and demonstrates a broad knowledge of philosophy and religion as well as science. Modern Physics and Ancient Faith is such a work. Barr . . . has a wonderful way of explaining difficult theories in modern physics. Equally impressive is his ability to reflect upon the philosophical and theological implications of these theories and explain them to us in ordinary English.” —Theology Today

“[A] well-written and logically argued presentation on the relationship between religion and science . . . Barr makes both modern physics and theology understandable to the general reader. This is a worthy successor to P.C.W. Davies’s God and the New Physics . . . Highly recommended.” —Library Journal

“[A] lucid and engaging survey of modern physics and its relation to religious belief. . . . Barr has produ“[ced a stunning tour de force . . . [a] scientific and philosophical breakthrough.” —National Review

“Stephen Barr’s book … energizes the reader, since its philosophical positions are well argued, its writing is clear and accessible, and its religious affirmations are provocative for believers and nonbelievers alike.” —Christian Century

“. . . Modern Physics and Ancient Faith ranks among the most scientifically, theologically, and philosophically rigorous studies of the relation between science and theology to appear in recent years. That it is also written in a clear and highly accessible style makes it even more worthy of widespread notice, discussion, and debate. . . . Barr has written an accessible, insightful, and fair overview of how the discoveries of physics and mathematics during the last century could be thought to confirm the expectations of the religious believer—as well as a careful analysis and critique of materialism. For those looking for an overview that will help them to think at a deep level about these issues, I cannot think of anything better than Modern Physics and Ancient Faith.” — First Things

Notă biografică

Stephen M. Barr is professor of physics at the Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware.