Bernard Landaud
Bernard Landaud | |
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| Nationality | French |
| Known for | Cosmogonic essay on the creation of the universe |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Cosmogony |
Bernard Landaud (born 1930 in Ambazac, near Limoges) is a French author known for his cosmogonic and metaphysical writing on the origin of the universe. He is listed in The Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists.
Work
Landaud is the author of La genèse de l'univers racontée par son créateur: Essai de cosmogonie ("The Genesis of the Universe Told by Its Creator: An Essay in Cosmogony"). The book presents a speculative, dualistic cosmogony in which a creative intelligence generates the material universe so as to have something on which to exercise itself, dispersing matter through a succession of "big bangs" and later introducing life and "souls" as the spiritual counterpart to material dynamics. Landaud argues that the creation of the universe reflects a deliberate creative will rather than random chance. His work is philosophical and theological in character and lies outside the domain of empirical physical cosmology.