pure radiation as an inevitable consequence of entropy. Thus the cosmos will become in its entirety a conscious universal being — i.e., the cosmos will have become God. Cosmotheism posits God as the consequence of the cosmos and not as its cause. Not in the beginning God created the cosmos but in the end the evolutionary cosmos will have created God. From cosmotheism to cosmodeism Since several racist groups co-opted the name cosmotheism, Nessyahu's living colleague Tsvi Bisk decided to rename Nessyahu's hypothesis cosmodeism, a name closer to the tradition of natural theology which cosmodeism best reflects. Bisk is presently writing a book entitled Cosmodeism: A Worldview for the Space Age. Publications (all in Hebrew) Mada Ha'Cosmos ve-Hevrat Ha'Mada (Cosmic Science and the Scientific Society); Tel Aviv: Katavim, 1953 Darkah shel Mapai (The Way of Mapai); Israel: Beit Berl, 1958 Ha-Mahapekhah ha-mada'it ṿeha-olam ha-mitpate'aḥ (The Scientific Revolution and the Developing World); Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 1965 Yiśrael ke-etgar: mi-20 la-medinah li-shenat 2000 (Israel as a challenge: from the State's 20th anniversary to the year 2000). Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 1969 Peace Time, Facts and Thoughts on the Oslo Track. Israel, 1994 Ḳosmoteizm (Cosmotheism). Ramat Gan: Poeṭiḳah, 1997 References 1929 births 1997 deaths 20th-century Israeli philosophers Burials at Yarkon Cemetery Israeli political scientists 20th-century political scientists