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Biocosm : the new scientific theory of evolution : intelligent life is the architect of the universe / James N. Gardner.

by Gardner, James N.

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Makawao, Maui, HI : Inner Ocean, c2003.

Evolution (Biology)

Life -- Origin.

1930722222 (pbk.)

xxx, 317 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 23 cm.

The profound mystery of an anthropic universe -- Searching for ET in all the wrong places -- A life-friendly cosmos -- Hints of a fourth law -- The coming fusion of biology and cosmology -- The dreams of Christian de Duve -- Biology and teleology: deciphering the utility function of the cosmos -- Professor Smolin's incredible reproducing universe -- Design, complexity, and evolution: an eternal cosmic waltz -- Creationists vs. evolutionists: dispatches from a hot cultural war -- Cosmic ontogeny and earthly phylogeny -- To the ends of the universe -- Point omega: dreams of a transhuman rapture -- The selfish biocosm: an emergent replicator class -- Testing the selfish biocosm hypothesis: rendezvous in Rio -- A second test: probing the escharton at the end of time -- Intimations of cosmic grandeur -- A cosmological origin of biological information -- The took kit of cosmic ontogeny and reproduction -- A scientifically credible strong anthropic principle -- The biocosm and humanity -- Climbing Darwin's ladder -- Mind and supermind -- A new measure of humanking -- The biocosm beckons.

Publisher's description: Biocosm challenges both sides of the controversy over evolution and creationism. This carefully reasoned book proposes that life and intelligence have not emerged as a series of random accidents, as Darwinists like Stephen Jay Gould have maintained, but are hardwired into the cycle of cosmic creation, evolution, death, and rebirth. Gardner's theory of an exponential coevolution of biological and electronic intelligence, designed and directed, offers an extraordinary vision of a universe of point and purpose.

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