Not A Chance
The Myth of Chance in Modern Science & Cosmology
by R.C. Sproul
Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition with minor dust jacket edge wear including some wrinkling at the bottom of the spine. There is no writing or highlighting.
234 pages, 1994 edition, ISBN 0801083869, Baker Book House
Synopsis
R. C. Sproul refutes the view of many contemporary scientists that chance can cause something to come into being or cause an event to occur.
From the dust jacket flap:
Announcing the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the news reporter began: "Fifteen to 17 billion years ago the universe exploded into being." "Exploded into being?" mused R. C. Sproul. "Does this mean that 15 billion years ago the universe exploded from non-being into being? Then what exploded?" In Not a Chance Sproul takes a hard look at such conundrums: Just what is chance? Can it account for what is?
As a respected Christian apologist, theologian, and philosopher, R. C. Sproul might be expected to find causation through chance a hard pill to swallow. But in Not a Chance we learn that he is not alone.
Among others troubled by chance probability ...
- David Hume: "Chance is only our ignorance of real causes"
- Charles Darwin: "I cannot look at the universe as a result of blind chance."
- Albert Einstein: "Quantum physics is certainly imposing, but an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing ... I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice."
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