For those who wish to engage in or be informed about the theoretical search
for divine causation and/or direction of creation, read mythology, religious
texts, and study chaos theory.
Try searching at Google for:
"chaos theory" "intelligent design"
You'll find 6,810 results. Some of those results, and others, are here:
Abarim Publications, building bridges between literary and
technological understanding of Natural Law
http://www.abarim-publications.com/
"Theological Reflections on Chaos Theory" by John Jefferson Davis from the
American Scientific Affiliation, Science in Christian Perspective
http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/1997/PSCF6-97Davis.html
"Religious Response to an Evolutionary Universe" by Kathleen Duffy from the
World Association for Christian Communication
http://www.wacc.org.uk/wacc/publications/media_development/2003_2/religious_
response_to_an_evolutionary_universe
"The God of Chaos Theory, Some thoughts from the movie 'Pi'" by David
Hopkins from Next-Wave: Church & Culture
http://www.next-wave.org/nov99/Chaos.htm
[For details about the folks who conceived and run Next-Wave,
see http://www.the-next-wave.org/about]
Polkinghorne, John. Quarks, Chaos, and Christianity.
[For more, see http://www.polkinghorne.org/ and he's
a co-founder of the Society of Ordained Scientists
(http://home.earthlink.net/~jjkeggi/SOSc/). BTW,
Polkinghorne is Canon Theologian of Liverpool Cathedral in
England. He served as Professor of Mathematical Physics at
Cambridge University, and is a Fellow of The Royal Society.]
Rooker, Mark F. "Genesis 1:1-3: Creation or Re-Creation?" Parts I and II
Bibliotheca Sacra 149 (1992: July/Sept.; Oct/Dec): 316-23; 411-27.
Rooker examines the creation account and refutes Waltke's approach
of a re-creation in Genesis 1:1-3. Rooker holds to an "initial
chaos theory" where the chaos occurred in connection with the
original creation.
[Rooker is Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at Southeastern
Baptist Theological Seminary. NO URL AVAILABLE.]
Trump, Matthew A. What Is Chaos? An Interactive Online Course for Everyone.
vers. 2.0, 14 Aug., 1998. Ilya Prigogline Center for Studies in Statistical
Mechanics and Complex Systems. University of Texas at Austin.
<http://order.ph.utexas.edu/chaos.>
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