The far-future universe : eschatology from a cosmic perspective / edited by George F.R. Ellis. - Philadelphia : Templeton Foundation Press, c2002. - ix, 384 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

"The present book about events all the way at the end of time grew out of a symposium sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation under the aegis of its Humble Approach Initiative"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Seeking the future / Far, far future / Eternity / Time of the universe / Living in a multiverse / Exotic genetic materials and the extent of life in the universe / Time without end / Life in the universe / Does biology have an eschatology, and if so dies it have cosmological implications? / Deep times / Games that end in a bang or a whimper / Artificial intelligence and the far future / Cosmic eschatology versus human eschatology / Cosmotology and religious ideas about the end of the world / Cosmos and theosis / Eschatology and physical cosmology / Natures of existance / George V. Coyne -- John D. Barrow -- Paul Davies -- Michael Heller -- Martin J. Rees -- A. Graham Cairns-Smith -- Freeman J. Dyson -- Freeman J. Dyson -- Simon Conway-Morris -- Stephen R.L. Clark -- Steven J. Brams and D. Marc Kilgour -- Margaret A. Boden -- Owen Gingerich -- Keith Ward -- J??�?rgen Moltmann -- Robert John Russell -- George F.R. Ellis.

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Cosmology.
Eschatology.

QB981 / .F175 2002