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- catalog abstract "Set among the mountains and canyonlands of northern New Mexico, George Johnson explores the human hunger for pattern, the innate drive to find (or impose) order in our capricious world. In this land of strange juxtapositions where magic and science, religion and reason, constantly bump up against each other, Johnson introduces us to an amazing diversity of people who see the world through varied lenses, who find vastly different pictures in the night sky. In the dizzying heights of the Sangre de Cristo (Blood of Christ) Mountains, the faithful flock to an old Catholic church for samples of holy soil said to cure all ills. Descending from this land of miracles to the foothills around Santa Fe, we visit a revolutionary think tank called the Santa Fe Institute. Here scientists are focusing their research on questions that seem to hover within the penumbra between science and religion: How, from the random jostling of molecules, did life arise and evolve to the point where it can contemplate its own beginnings? Are we accidents of the universe - miracles - or is there a reason for us to be here?".
- catalog contributor b8202047.
- catalog coverage "New Mexico Description and travel.".
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-363) and index.".
- catalog description "Phaedrus's ghosts -- The depth of the atom -- The height of the sky -- The demonology of information -- The undetermined world -- The democracy of measurement -- The dawn of recognition -- The arrival of the fittest -- In search of complexity -- In the eye of the beholder.".
- catalog description "Set among the mountains and canyonlands of northern New Mexico, George Johnson explores the human hunger for pattern, the innate drive to find (or impose) order in our capricious world. In this land of strange juxtapositions where magic and science, religion and reason, constantly bump up against each other, Johnson introduces us to an amazing diversity of people who see the world through varied lenses, who find vastly different pictures in the night sky. In the dizzying heights of the Sangre de Cristo (Blood of Christ) Mountains, the faithful flock to an old Catholic church for samples of holy soil said to cure all ills. Descending from this land of miracles to the foothills around Santa Fe, we visit a revolutionary think tank called the Santa Fe Institute. Here scientists are focusing their research on questions that seem to hover within the penumbra between science and religion: How, from the random jostling of molecules, did life arise and evolve to the point where it can contemplate its own beginnings? Are we accidents of the universe - miracles - or is there a reason for us to be here?".
- catalog extent "379 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Fire in the mind.".
- catalog identifier "0679411925".
- catalog isFormatOf "Fire in the mind.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Knopf,".
- catalog relation "Fire in the mind.".
- catalog spatial "New Mexico Description and travel.".
- catalog subject "215 20".
- catalog subject "BL240.2 .J547 1995".
- catalog subject "Hermanos Penitentes.".
- catalog subject "Johnson, George, 1952 January 20-".
- catalog subject "Religion and science.".
- catalog subject "Science Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Tewa philosophy.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Phaedrus's ghosts -- The depth of the atom -- The height of the sky -- The demonology of information -- The undetermined world -- The democracy of measurement -- The dawn of recognition -- The arrival of the fittest -- In search of complexity -- In the eye of the beholder.".
- catalog title "Fire in the mind : science, faith, and the search for order / George Johnson.".
- catalog type "text".