The God Theory |
PREFACE |
INTRODUCTION |
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Is There Any Chance It Could Come About? |
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A Purpose-Guided Universe |
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Not Intelligent Design |
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Three Different Possibilities |
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1. Science and Religion |
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An Infinite Number of Universes vs. One Great Intelligence |
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Belief Systems |
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The Problem |
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String Theory |
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Having Faith |
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A Better Notion of God |
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Consciousness Creating Reality |
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2:Quantum Reality |
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An Ideal Quantum Experiment |
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Waves and Particles |
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The Wavefunction |
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Schroedinger's Cat |
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Wheeler's Delayed Choice Experiment:
If You Come to a Fork in the Road... Take It |
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Consciousness |
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3: The Finely-Tuned Universe |
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A Universe Made for Life |
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The Force of Gravity to the Electric (Coulomb) Force |
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The Nuclear Force |
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The Density of Matter |
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The Dark Matter Ratio |
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The Even Bigger Mystery of Dark Energy |
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Quantum Clumps |
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The Chemistry of Life: Carbon and Oxygen |
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That Ordinary Extraordinary Liquid: Water |
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Which is Heavier? Neutron or Proton |
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What Happened to all the Anti-matter? |
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What to Make of This |
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4: The Perennial Philosophy |
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The Perennial Philosophy |
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Requisite Conditions |
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Eddington and Einstein |
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Eddington and His Inner Light |
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The Universe Begins to Look More Like a Great Thought than Like a Great Machine |
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5: Thou Art That |
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A Little Theology |
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Consciousness and Causes |
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Beginning of Time |
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Meister Eckhart |
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Finding God Within |
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The Mystical Experience: "I and the Father are One" |
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6: The God Theory |
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God and Godhead |
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What Does this Mumbo-jumbo Mean? |
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A Mental Universe |
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The Question of Why |
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If We Are God, Why Don't We Know That? |
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Role of Evolution |
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Does Consciousness Evolve to an Omega Point? |
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7: Staying Out of Heaven |
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The Standard Model of Life |
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Creation by Subraction |
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God as Timeless Absolute |
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Experiencing Timelessness |
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Mystical vs. Psychedelic |
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Can You Really Train for Enlightenment? |
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A World of Polarity |
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8: Consciousness and Reality |
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The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle |
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Superseding the Clockwork Universe |
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The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) Thought Experiment |
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Bohm |
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Quantum Spin |
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Bell's Inequality |
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Locality, Realism and the Leggett Formula |
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9: The Post-Physics Era |
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The End of the Physics Age |
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The Post-Physics Age |
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The Issue of Consciousness |
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10: The Primacy of Consciousness |
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Are You Nothing But a Pack of Neurons? |
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Quantum Mechanics Requires Consciousness |
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Shifting Consciousness |
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A Three-way Battle of Beliefs |
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Reason for Hope |
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11: Where Do Things Stand? |
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Multiverse or Creator? |
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Consciousness and Free Will |
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Evolution |
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Can a Smart Person Believe in God? |
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A Purpose |
TABLE: The Ten Critical Properties of the Universe |
BIBLIOGRAPHY |
INDEX |
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