Donald MacKay is late Emeritus Professor, Department of Communication and Neuroscience, University of Keele, England. He is author of The Clockwork Image and other books.
Man in a Mechanistic Universe
Speaker(s): Donald Mackay
Date: 1975
Length: 1hr13min
Product ID: RGDL0528
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Donald Mackay addresses the query, "Is the universe mechanistic, and if so in what sense?" Mapping pagan, early modern, and later modern views of nature, Mackay contrasts and compares these views with an understanding of the universe consistent with a biblical worldview.
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