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Table of Contents
  1. Augustine & 20th Century Physics
  2. Why discuss philosophy? 5 Reasons
  3. Greek Philosophy: Plato / Aristotle
  4. Epicurean(~400BC) materialism
  5. Lucretius(99-55 BC) "De rerum natura"
  6. More Lucretius...
  7. Augustine(354-430) & Materialism
  8. 1) The creation of time
  9. 2) Creatio ex nihilo
  10. 3) The contingency of creation
  11. Augustine's victory
  12. Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655)
  13. James Clerk-Maxwell (1831-79), John Tyndall (1820-93) & Ludwig Boltzmann (1844 -1906)
  14. Augustine redux
  15. Einstein's (1905) Relativity or The Death of Matter
  16. Can mass-energy replace matter?
  17. Einstein (1917) Relativity or The Beginning of Time
  18. Can the Big Bang NOT=Genesis?
  19. 2 views: Robert Jastrow & Paul Davies
  20. The Anthropic Principle
  21. William Dembski: Design/Purpose
  22. An August Conclusion
  23. Quantum Purpose (take Dillard's class!)