| The Purpose-Guided Universe |
| PREFACE |
| INTRODUCTION |
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1. Personal Journey |
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From Archabbey to Astrophysics |
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Launching a Career |
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Age of Discovery |
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Return of the Astronomer-Priest |
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2: Asking Fundamental Questions |
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The God Theory and Creation |
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The God Theory, Karma, and the Golden Rule |
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The God Theory and Reductionism |
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3: Explaining Creation |
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Creation by Subtraction |
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Polarity |
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The God Theory and Consciousness |
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4: Reductionism and a Spiritual Worldview |
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Superstrings and the Supernatural |
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A Spiritual Worldview |
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No Need for Intelligent Design |
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5: Explaining Consciousness |
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Three Views of Consciousness |
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Consciousness and Physiology |
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The Brain as Filter |
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The Primacy of Consciousness |
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Opposite Perspectives |
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"There Can Be No Evidence for Something That Is False" |
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The Random, Unconscious, "Just-Right" Universe |
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Inflation Theory |
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6: The Zero-Point Field |
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The Casimir Force |
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Zeroing in on the Zero-Point Field |
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7: Into the Void |
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Deriving Newton's Postulate |
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Inertia |
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Inertial Reaction |
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Defending the Theory |
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A Boost from NASA |
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8: Following the Light |
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The Light of Creation |
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Kabbalah |
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The Big Bang |
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9: God and the Theory of Everything |
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A God Beyond Matter |
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The Manifest God |
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Asking God |
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Ayin |
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Creation As a Timeless Process |
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Atomic Stability and the Universal Timekeeper |
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10: An Infinite Number of Universes |
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A Universe of Consciousness |
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Many Worlds and Quantum Mechanics |
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11: A Purposeful Universe |
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Exoteric and Esoteric Knowledge |
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The God Theory, Christianity, and Humanism |
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Final Thoughts |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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