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Polkinghorne lists books that may discuss emergence in an interesting way

Actually, in The Faith of a Physicist, he lists four properties of modern physics brought up by Barbour. The first is the developmental nature of the universe, the second is the intertwining of chance and law; and the third is wholeness and emergence. The footnote lists other works that discuss these same properties (the last two have to do with biology, which is what I'm interested in): Bartholemew 1984 God of Chance Polkinghorne 1986 One World Polkinghorne 1988 Science and Creation Prigogine 1980 From Being to Becoming Prigogine and Stengers 1984 Order out of Chaos Peacocke 1979 Creation and the World of Science Peacocke 1986 God and the New Biology Must look into the last two...