Religion and the Natural Sciences: The Range of EngagementJames E. Huchingson The first half of 'Religion and the Natural Sciences' is an introduction to the discussion of science and religion. Here the reader learns why there is any debate at all and what resources exist for responding to it. The second half deals with specific issues that arise in the individual sciences, from astronomy and physics to biology and ecology. Any project hoping to connect science and religion must supply the categories of connection, which are found primarily, although not exclusively, in philosophy. The simplicity of the arrangement and the nature of the selections are intended to make 'Religion and the Natural Sciences' available to as wide an audience as possible, including students from the sciences and technology, the professions, the humanities and liberal studies, and theology. |
Contents
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Hans Kiing On the Relationship of Theology to Science | 57 |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 71 |
Earl R Mac Cormack Metaphor in Science and Religion | 88 |
STORIES | 105 |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 118 |
EINSTEIN AND THE TRANSCENDENT GOD 148 | 122 |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 246 |
CREATION AND EVOLUTION | 256 |
Duane Gish EvolutionA Philosophy Not a Science | 265 |
Isaac Asimov The Threat of Creationism | 275 |
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Some Reflections on Progress | 285 |
Ralph W Burhoe Attributes of God in an Evolutionary Universe | 298 |
THE APPROACH OF SOCIOBIOLOGY | 308 |
Arthur R Peacocke God and the Selfish Genes | 329 |
S Lewis The Naturalist and the Supematuralist 12 7 | 131 |
Albert Einstein Science and Religion | 148 |
MRACLES | 157 |
Richard Dawkins Miracles and Probability | 169 |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 178 |
COSMOLOGY AND CREATION | 190 |
Walter Jastrow God and the Astronomers | 196 |
John Robert Russell Cosmology and Theology | 205 |
George Wald Life and Mind in the Universe | 214 |
Gerald F einberg and Robert Shapiro A Puddlian Fable | 220 |
Annie Dillard All Nature is Touch and Go | 231 |
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