Publisher's Synopsis
"Cosmos and Theos" demonstrates the impact on social, ethical, and theological doctrines of the 20th-century scientific revolution, particularly the Anthropic Cosmological Principle, a most far-reaching development in contemporary physics that has immensely important philosophical implications. Errol Harris argues that this revolution reinstates traditional theological doctrines (for example, that of Natural Law) and traditional arguments for the existence of God. He contends that the conflict between religion and science since the 17th century is largely the effect of the Copernican-Newtonian scientific "paradigm", rather than of any insuperable divergence of dogma or ultimate aim.
