Description
Challenging the materialism of Charles Darwin and the claim of H. G. Wells that ”we must give up any idea that evolution is purposeful,” ‘Cosmic Purpose’ draws on research in physics, chemistry, astrophysics, mineralogy, genetics, and biology to offer evidence of purpose in the vast span of evolutionary history from the atom to human consciousness. In his attempt to renew our sense of wonder at this process, Kagawa proposes a ”logic of finality” that links life to purpose. Written by the ”sole cosmological thinker in Japan,” this teleology is still worthy of consideration in an era when the culture wars between science and religion continue to rage.
