God Does Not Play Dice: The Fulfillment of Einstein's Quest for Law and Order in Nature

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David Ph.D. Shiang. God Does Not Play Dice: The Fulfillment of Einstein's Quest for Law and Order in Nature

Foreword

1. Introduction

2. Beginning the Journey

3. A Certain World Beyond Science

4. The Solution to the Free Will Problem

5. Cracking Nature’s Code of Law and Order

6. Quantum Leaps of Faith

7. Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit Applied

8. Why Darwinism is Defunct

Appendix A. Observations on the Direction of Time

Appendix B. Einstein, God, and the Number One Musketeer

Notes. 1. Introduction

2. Beginning the Journey

3. A Certain World Beyond Science

4. The Solution to the Free Will Problem

5. Cracking Nature’s Code of Law and Order

6. Quantum Leaps of Faith

7. Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit Applied

8. Why Darwinism is Defunct

Appendix A. Observations on the Direction of Time

Appendix B. Einstein, God, and the Number One. Musketeer

Acknowledgements

About the Author

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I first stumbled upon David A. Shiang’s very obscure, if not now, very rare first book, On the Absence of Disorder in Nature, on the floor all by itself at Powell’s Books in Portland, Oregon quite late on a cold and rainy night in the early 1980’s. I bent down to pick it up. When I cracked the pages, the text was so shocking and strange to my Stanford scientific training that I had to read and re-read the book forty or fifty times forcing me to go back to the text literally hundreds of times since then. I subsequently included it in my pantheon of favorite books. And the book is only 29 pages long. His second book, this one, is longer and just as exciting to read. It has taken me over 20 years for Shiang’s new way of thinking to finally become integrated with my own preconceptions and scientific stereotypes. Perhaps the readers of this book will not take so long to understand Shiang as I did.

Shiang elegantly attacks and charmingly demolishes, randomness, atheism, Darwin and natural selection. And this does not exhaust the list. His lucidity and logic are breathtakingly devastating. He is not afraid to defend the mind of God, either. He is the most original and wildest thinker in the philosophy and psychology of science today.

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Department of Anthropology

Boise State University

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