Starting Science From God

by Ian Thompson

Overview

Many of us these days sense there is something real beyond the scope of naturalistic science. But what? Must mental and religious lives always remain a mystery and never become part of scientific knowledge?
In this well-argued book, physicist Ian Thompson makes a case for a 'scientific theism'. He shows how a following of core postulates of theism leads to novel and useful predictions about the psychology of minds and the physics of materials which should appear in the universe. These predictions constitute a kind of 'theistic science'. It meshes surprisingly well with the structure of reality already revealed by modern quantum field theory and by theories of developmental stages in human minds.
The result is a serious look at a promising new rational structure encompassing theology, psychology and physics. For more details see beginningtheisticscience.com.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013545120
Publisher:	Eagle Pearl Press
Publication date:	11/28/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Ian J. Thompson is currently employed as a Nuclear Physicist in the Nuclear Theory and Modeling Group at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA, having until 2006 been Professor of Physics at the University of Surrey, UK. His professional research deals with coupled-channels and few-body models for nuclear structure and reactions, especially concerning halo nuclei. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics in the U.K. He has published over 201 articles in referred journals, supervised 9 Ph.D. research students, written a nuclear physics textbook Nuclear Reactions for Astrophysics, and has contributed the chapter on Coulomb Functions to the new NIST Handbook of Mathematical Functions.
His research in philosophy, psychology and theology is of equal duration in years, and has produced 6 referred papers, 2 book chapters, and now two books.