For For readers interested in the philosophy of science and the idea of chance as a cause; not for those wanting a survey of creation and evolution debates.
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For the general reader
2 of 5worth a look
For the researcher
4 of 5important
Difficulty
3 of 5demanding
A philosophical argument that chance can cause nothing, aimed at modern cosmology's language.
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Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
Published by Baker in 1994; an expanded edition with Keith Mathison appeared in 2014. Sproul argues that 'chance' cannot be a cause of anything, since it has no power of its own, and exposes what he calls the irrationalism in some modern scientific writing about the origin of the universe.