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God's way of working has been slow and gradual (the bodies of higher animals coming into being through descent with modification from earlier species), is all that is meant by the term 'evolution' as used in science. In this technical, scientific sense the idea is theologically neutral, and is widely
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In our age, when people look for explanations, the tendency more and more is to conceive of any and every situation that we are trying to understand by analogy with a machine.
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The application of electronic principles to the solution of differential equations in physics
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accepted by biologists who are also biblical Christians. Nothing in the Bible rules it out.
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Analogue Computing at Ultra-High Speed: An Experimental and Theoretical Study
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Married to Valerie Wood, they had five children. His oldest son is
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Moving visual images produced by regular stationary pattern
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Multiplication and division by electronic analogue methods
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in Staffordshire, England, known for his contributions to
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A comprehensive list of works by Donald MacCrimmon MacKay
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The Clockwork Image: A Christian Perspective on Science
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MacKay, Donald MacCrimmon, and Michael Ellis Fisher.
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MacKay, Donald MacCrimmon, and Valerie Mackay (ed).
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III. On the logical indeterminacy of a free choice.
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(1997 edition). 14: 340:MacKay, Prof. Donald MacCrimmon, 187:, a professor of physics at the 538:Alumni of King's College London 384:"MacKay vs. Cramer: A Rebuttal" 374:. 37 (September 1985): 142–148. 499:. Inter-Varsity Press. p. 51. 241:Deeley, E. M., MacKay, D. M., 1: 533:Academics of Keele University 321:Brains, Machines, and Persons 307:. Cambridge: MIT Press. 1970. 16:British physicist (1922–1987) 319:MacKay, Donald MacCrimmon. 310:MacKay, Donald MacCrimmon. 301:MacKay, Donald MacCrimmon. 280:MacKay, Donald MacCrimmon, 277:, LXIX(273):31-40, 01 1960. 269:MacKay, Donald MacCrimmon, 255:MacKay, Donald MacCrimmon, 227:MacKay, Donald MacCrimmon, 579: 558:British systems scientists 484:Het Technische Wereldbeeld 316:InterVarsity Press. 1974. 548:British Christian writers 392:. 38 (March 1986): 62–63. 364:. 44 (March 1992): 55–61. 354:. 44 (March 1992): 49–54. 122: 105: 30: 442:Donald MacCrimmon MacKay 378:Donald MacCrimmon MacKay 330:. Basil Blackwell, 1991. 129:Donald MacCrimmon MacKay 25:Donald MacCrimmon MacKay 189:University of Cambridge 183:; his youngest son was 151:MacKay was educated at 563:Theistic evolutionists 454:MacKay, D. M. (1951). 216: 210: 177:Robert Sinclair MacKay 159:, and gained a PhD at 96:Robert Sinclair MacKay 291:(4804): 739-740. 1961 266: : 849–850. 1957 252:(4147): 650-650. 1949 238:(4038): 406–407. 1947 219:Selected publications 211: 206: 197:University of Glasgow 181:University of Warwick 161:King's College London 157:St Andrews University 78:King's College London 74:St Andrews University 444:Gifford Lectures bio 380:Gifford Lectures bio 37:Donald MacKay (1952) 553:British physicists 185:David J. C. MacKay 141:information theory 100:David J. C. MacKay 126: 125: 107:Scientific career 570: 507: 493: 487: 476: 470: 469: 451: 445: 439: 386:. D. M. MacKay. 370:. J. A. CRAMER. 344:online, Dec 2007 323:. 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St Andrews University
King's College London
Robert Sinclair MacKay
David J. C. MacKay
Keele University
physicist
Keele University
information theory
Wick High School
St Andrews University
King's College London
Ratio Club
Robert Sinclair MacKay
University of Warwick
David J. C. MacKay
University of Cambridge
Gifford Lectures
University of Glasgow
A high-speed electronic function generator
Multiplication and division by electronic analogue methods
Moving visual images produced by regular stationary pattern
III. On the logical indeterminacy of a free choice.
Visual effects of non-redundant stimulation
Information, Mechanism, and Meaning
The Clockwork Image: A Christian Perspective on Science
"An I Behind the Eye: Donald MacKay's Gifford Lectures"
"Donald MacCrimmon MacKay (1922-1987): A View From the Other Side of the Atlantic"
"Science, Scientism and Christianity: The Ideas of D.M. MacKay"
Donald MacCrimmon MacKay

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