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Barad, K., 74–76Bar-Hillel, Y., 228, 234Barrett, C. K., 433, 440Barrow, J. D., 33, 44–45, 78, 92,
113, 116baryonic matter, see matter,
baryonicBascompte, J., 282, 311Bateson, G., 207, 215, 419Baumgarten, A. G., 56beam-splitter experiment, 102–05Beauregard, M., 152Bechtel, W., 318, 320, 352Bedau, M., 48, 75Beierwaltes, W., 53, 75Bekenstein, J. D., 98–101, 113Bekenstein–Hawking formula,
99Bell’s inequalities, 70Benard system, 321–23Benioff, P., 110, 113Berg, P., 311Berkeley, Bishop G., 83Bickhard, M. H., 209, 215big bang
145–48, 152, 409Boltzmann entropy, 204–07, 420Boltzmann, L. E., 4, 7, 123–24,
127, 207, 215, see alsoShannon–Boltzmann
Boltzmann’s constant, 99Bonner, J. T., 271, 309Boolean algebra, 112Borel, E., 128, 132Boscovich, R., 26, 38Boswell, J., 83, 113Bowden, J., 325, 354Bowker, J., 384, 403brain, see also mind and body
ability to care, 263, 285alteration of structures of, 290and interpretation, 242and top-down causation, 276
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Brauner, T., 421Brentano, F., 190–92, 215Brierley, M. W., 330, 352Brown, R. E., 430, 440Bruni, L. E., 256–59Buch-Hansen, G., 440Bultmann, R., 430, 440, 448Bunge, M., 158–60, 183Burbidge, J. W., 61, 75Buridan, J., 20, 23
Caldwell, R. R., 38, 44Callaerts, P., 183Calvin, J., 461Campbell, D., 251, 258, 321, 352,
355Campbell, J., 384, 387, 403Capelin, S., xviCappadocian Fathers, 411Capra, F., 72, 75caring, see also ethics
about kin, 278, 294and origin of life, 266animals, 261, 275as altruism, 296–301as fitness, 285as middle-range, 262as promoted by natural
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conscious, 247Einstein on divine, 85freedom of, 138, 140–43, 147,
150, 407of a bacterial cell, 247of animals, 252of laws of the universe, 150of probing action, 138, 140, 147of the right, 305
Chomsky, N., 120, 132Christensen, J., 436, 440Christiansen, M. H., 309Christiansen, T.-A. F., xvii, 290Christoffersen, M., xviiChristology, 412
coming of Christ, 453–55continuity and discontinuity in,
341, 457cross of Christ, 454deep incarnation, 436definition of Chalcedon, 338divine self-communication,
341–42logos, 430Logos, 414, 438resurrection of Christ, 451–54,
459Chuang, I. A., 124, 132Clarke, S., 25Clausius, R., 4, 215, 415Clayton, P., ix, xvii, 2, 25, 47,
75–78, 245–47, 258, 310,320, 352, 442
Cobb, J. B., 401–04code, idea of comma-free, 166coded instructions, 9coder, 157, 159–61collapse of the wave function, 68
communication, see alsoinformation
and information, 217, 421animal, 170as abstract structure, 232as basis for life, 217, 225as common understanding, 218as coordination, 219as human hallmark, 120divine, 341–42etymology of, 218human, 183in theory of information, 163,
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copying information, 161Lamarckian concept of, 429no natural laws for, 417presupposing information, 157programmed by natural
selection, 171, 178, 182,239, 275, 358
regulation of, 168–71
sharing of, 119signalling symbolically, 175signalling to other genes, 173working in other species, 173
genetic code, 162, 165–69, 172–74,269
genetic transcription, 161genetics
and origin of life, 266information theory in, 162, 181limit of, 298, 300or biosemiotics, 7probabilism in, 162
Gerhardt, C. I., 59, 75–78Germer, L. H., 31Gibbons, G. W., 114Gibbs, J. W., 123–25, 127Gibbs, W., 248, 258Gill, M. L., 51–53, 76Gilman, A., 248Gnosticism, 53, 430–32, 434–35God
analogical language of, 9and biosemiotics, 257–59as acting in the world, see divine
actionas at least personal, 351as creator, 326–29as Creator, 57, 84, 316, 335,
338, 377, 394, 447–49in, with, and under the
natural processes, 327, 330,334, 338, 346, 412
of laws of nature, 90, 150as deistic, 325as designer, 9, 384, 391as information, 9, 373, 384as necessary being, 84, 328–31as omnipresent creator, 326as primordial consciousness, 366as suffering and therefore
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392energy of, 11, 412forms in the mind of, 363grace of, 351immanence and economy, 434kingdom of, 307, 453metaphysical concepts of, 448natural processes as acts of, 325,
330of the gaps, 315, 328ontological connection between
Grib, A. A., 70, 76Gribbin, J., 407, 440Griffin, D. R., 62, 76–78, 401, 403Griffiths, P. E., 182, 185, 239, 259Guth, A., 35
Haas, A. M., 53, 75Habermas, J., 445, 462Haldane, J. B. S., 165, 171, 183Halder, G., 173, 183Hanson, N. R., 417, 440Harper, C. L., 78, 116Harper, D. G. C., 152, 170, 185,
403Hartle, J. B., 127Harvey, W., 159Haught, J. F., x, 9, 382Hauser, M. D., 120, 132Hawking, S. W., 86, 98–101,
114Hegel, G. W. F., 76
on Geist, 60, 382on matter, 50, 59–62
Heidelberger, M., 2, 12Heisenberg, W., 76, 152
on matter, 134on potentia, 135, 139on quantum cosmology, 145on uncertainty principle, see
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as deep incarnation, 436as divine wisdom, 341–42as embodied, 430as information, 412, 430, 434,
438as meaning, 342as structuring principle of the
universe, 337as ultimate reality, 432asarkos and ensarkos, 436Christology of, see Christology,
Logosin Stoicism, see Stoicism, Logos
ininherent and outgoing, 433present in all things, 336structuring principle of the
universe, 11, 347, 382, 432,434
translation of, 433Luke, 451Lysenko, T. D., 165
MacKay, D. M., 228, 235Mackenzie, D., 310Macquarrie, J., 342, 352Maguire, E. A., 290, 310Mahner, M., 158–60, 183Malthus, T. R., 159Mark, 453Mason, G., 74, 76
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matterand energy, see mass and energyas creative synthesis, 62as dematerialized, 417as extension, 21as hypokeimenon, subjectum, 53as information-bearing, 351as la differance, 63as mass and energy, 30, see also
mass and energyas privation, 53as receptacle, 17as reservoir of potentiality, 40as rest mass, 30as unsolved conundrum, 62baryonic, 35–37, 41ceasing influence as term, 23corpuscular, 22dark, 35–37, 41, 409density, 22emergence of new forms of, 327entanglement of meaning and, 74Hymn to, 439impenetrability, 22in early Greek thought, 15–22,
50–54, 143in Hegel’s thought, see Hegel,
G. W. F., on matterin medieval thought, 53–56in Neo-platonic thought, 143in process philosophy, 61–63in seventeenth-century thought,
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407res cogitans and extensa, 55, 213resonance, 9, 410, 429, 434rest mass, 3, 28–31, 36, 41, 409Richards, R. J., 429, 442Richardson, A., 354Richardson, R. C., 320, 325,
352–55Richardson, W. M., 354, 442Riordan, A., 74Rodrigues, Jr., W. A., 77Rolston, H., xii, 7, 261, 298, 310Rontgen, W. C., 67Ruby, E. G., 256, 259Russell, B., 85, 114, 410, 417, 442Russell, L. J., 59, 78Russell, R. J., 48–49, 68, 78, 234,
287, 311, 354, 451, 462
Sarkar, S., 166, 170, 185, 238,259
sarx, 432, 436–38, 457, see also fleshSchrodinger, E., 68Schrodinger’s cat, 108, 139, 200Schroeder, G., 78Schwartz, J., 152scientific explanation, see also
causationaxiological, 372capacity of, 226concerned with probability, 387holistic, 359, 366–69, 378nomological, 372pluralism in, 411
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219–24, 229, 374unified theory of physics, 87universe, see also cosmic bit count;
cosmology; multiversemodel; ultimate reality
as clockwork, 4, 94, 123, 225as code lacking, 168as holistic system, 359, 368as information system, 384as informational, 198, 384, 388,
394, 397, 399–402, 438as mathematical, 90as polynomial or exponential,
107bearing revelatory meaning, 387billiard-ball, 134carrying information, 104, 385compatible with omnipotent
Creator?, 56, 58computational, 4, 104, 113,
118–32, 198, 423–27contingency of, 85–86, 412deterministic, see determinismexpanding, 15, 265expanding or contracting, 33narratively informed or
mechanically designed?, 398naturalistic view of, 377non-ergodicity of the, 243origin of, 55, 359, 362quantum, 135reasons for existence of, 371–73registering itself, 4, 424static or contract, 36structured by Logos, 414, 432,
434two-stock, 405
vacuum, 32–33, 41, 83, 144, 415vacuum energy, 38
density of, 38van de Vijver, G., 74, 76van Till, H., 327, 355Varela, F. J., 270, 310Venter, J. C., 288, 311von Balthasar, H. U., 53, 75von Goethe, J. W., 227, 235von Harnack, A., 430, 442von Neumann, J., 74, 144, 147,
153, 204, 367, 409von Weizsacker, C. F., 68
Wallace, A. R., 159Ward, K., xiv, 9, 116, 357Waters, P. J., 241, 259wave function, 8, 103–10, 113Weaver, W., 124, 132, 163, 185,
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