Oasis Earth - Allen, Philip
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We are essentially alone in a vast, beautiful, and magnificent cosmos. The life that teems on our own blue planet, and its representatives in the fossil record, is exceptionally special. The story of planet Earth is a narrative stitched together over 4 billion years, full of major altercations and near-misses superimposed on a gradual drift of environmental change. Yet somehow life has survived. Oasis Earth is a rational enquiry into key questions about the origins, purpose, and destiny of life on Earth, using an approach by the author that is built upon a career as a leading Earth scientist…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
We are essentially alone in a vast, beautiful, and magnificent cosmos. The life that teems on our own blue planet, and its representatives in the fossil record, is exceptionally special. The story of planet Earth is a narrative stitched together over 4 billion years, full of major altercations and near-misses superimposed on a gradual drift of environmental change. Yet somehow life has survived. Oasis Earth is a rational enquiry into key questions about the origins, purpose, and destiny of life on Earth, using an approach by the author that is built upon a career as a leading Earth scientist and a life as a Christian believer. This approach treats both science and religion with equal respect and shows that conflict is not inevitable between Christian faith (as a guide to how to live life and relate to others) and scientific principles (with which to understand the mechanics of the physical world).
Autorenporträt
Philip Allen has published over a hundred Earth Science papers in peer-reviewed journals, and co-authored a widely used textbook Basin Analysis in 1990 with expanded and strongly updated editions in 2005 and 2013. In 1997 he published a textbook on Earth Surface Processes, and in 2017 a research monograph on Sediment Routing Systems. In addition Philip published two 'popular science' books in 2014; Earth Dramas, and Acts of God: Weighing Biblical Events with Natural Science, which may be considered companion volumes to Oasis Earth.