The Transformation of the Scientific World View

includes index and biblioraphy

INTRODUCTION 1. The starting-point for the analysis of faith and natural science 2. The subject-matter of the analysis THE ABSOLUTE OBJECT 3. Materialism as a religious faith 4. The reduction of matter into energy and light 5. From light to complementarity 6. From physics to philosophy FAITH IN ABSOLUTE TIME AND ABSOLUTE SPACE AND ITS DISRUPTION BY THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY 7. Calculation in terms of a fixed world-centre as a religious faith 8. The disruption of this faith in a fixed world-centre 9. The special relativity theory: a fruit of the disruption of faith in a fixed world-centre 10. The general relativity theory: a final consequence 11. Practical conclusion ABSOLUTE DETERMINISM IN NATURAL EVENTS AND THE A-CAUSAL CONCEPT USED IN MODERN PHYSICS 12. The concept of causal necessity 13. The debate about causality within modern physics 14. The necessity of natural laws as explained by the theory of probability 15. The dispute concerning ultimate consequences for our world-view 16. Consequences for the belief in God 8 The Transformation of the Scientific World View THE PROBLEM OF MIRACLES IN THE LIGHT OF MODERN NATURAL SCIENCE 17. The Thomist conception of miracles 18. The voluntary character of miraculous experience 19. The significance of God`s self-revelation for miraculous experiences VI. THE RIDDLE OF LIFE 20. The non-objective background of the objective world 21. The problem of a mechanistic or a vitalistic interpretation of the process of life 22. The experimental solution of the problem of life 23. The problem of transplantation in the growing organism 24. Mechanism or wholeness-tendency? 25. The non-objective point of reference of the life- process