Book Description
A ground-breaking volume of innovative conversations between science and religion which move beyond hackneyed positions of either conflict or dialogue.
Author : Peter Harrison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 19,5 MB
Release : 2022-05-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1316517926
A ground-breaking volume of innovative conversations between science and religion which move beyond hackneyed positions of either conflict or dialogue.
Author : J. L. Schellenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 23,60 MB
Release : 2019-08-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1108499031
Presents a new perspective on religion that acknowledges all its past and present faults while remaining optimistic about its future.
Author : Paul Kurtz
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 25,29 MB
Release : 2013-06-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1615921710
In recent years a noticeable trend toward harmonizing the distinct worldviews of science and religion has become increasingly popular. Despite marked public interest, many leading scientists remain skeptical that there is much common ground between scientific knowledge and religious belief. Indeed, they are often antagonistic. Can an accommodation be reached after centuries of conflict? In this stimulating collection of articles on the subject, Paul Kurtz, with the assistance of Barry Karr and Ranjit Sandhu, have assembled the thoughts of scientists from various disciplines. Among the distinguished contributors are Sir Arthur C. Clarke (author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, and numerous other works of science fiction); Nobel Prize Laureate Steven Weinberg (professor of physics at the University of Texas at Austin); Neil deGrasse Tyson (Princeton University astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium); James Lovelock (creator of the Gaia hypothesis); Kendrick Frazier (editor of the Skeptical Inquirer); Steven Pinker (professor of psychology at MIT); Richard Dawkins (zoologist at Oxford University); Eugenie Scott (physical anthropologist and executive director of the National Center for Science Education); Owen Gingerich (professor of astronomy at Harvard University); Martin Gardner (prolific popular science writer); the late Richard Feynman (Nobel Prize-winning physicist) and Stephen Jay Gould (professor of geology at Harvard University); and many other eminent scientists and scholars. Among the topics discussed are the Big Bang and the origin of the universe, intelligent design and creationism versus evolution, the nature of the "soul," near-death experiences, communication with the dead, why people do or do not believe in God, and the relationship between religion and ethics.
Author : Philip Clayton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 32,51 MB
Release : 2013-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1136640673
Intelligent Design vs. the New Atheists.
Author : Peter Harrison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 13,33 MB
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521712513
This book explores the historical relations between science and religion and discusses contemporary issues with perspectives from cosmology, evolutionary biology and bioethics.
Author : Robert N. McCauley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 23,37 MB
Release : 2013-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0199341540
A comparison of the cognitive foundations of religion and science and an argument that religion is cognitively natural and that science is cognitively unnatural.
Author : Daniel C. Dennett
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 29,2 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
An enlightening discussion that will motivate students to think critically, the book opens with Plantinga's assertion that Christianity is compatible with evolutionary theory because Christians believe that God created the living world, and it is entirely possible that God did so by using a process of evolution.
Author : Peter Harrison
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 18,38 MB
Release : 2015-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 022618448X
Peter Harrison takes what we think we know about science and religion, dismantles it, and puts it back together again in a provocative new way. It is a mistake to assume, as most do, that the activities and achievements that are usually labeled religious and scientific have been more or less enduring features of the cultural landscape of the West. Harrison, by setting out the history of science and religion to see when and where they come into being and to trace their mutations over timereveals how distinctively Western and modern they are. Only in the past few hundred years have religious beliefs and practices been bounded by a common notion and set apart from the secular. And the idea of the natural sciences as discrete activities conducted in isolation from religious and moral concerns is even more recent, dating from the nineteenth century. Putting the so-called opposition between religion and science into historical perspective, as Harrison does here for the first time, has profound implications for our understanding of the present and future relations between them. "
Author : Elaine Howard Ecklund
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 27,5 MB
Release : 2010-05-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0195392981
That the longstanding antagonism between science and religion is irreconcilable has been taken for granted. And in the wake of recent controversies over teaching intelligent design and the ethics of stem-cell research, the divide seems as unbridgeable as ever.In Science vs. Religion, Elaine Howard Ecklund investigates this unexamined assumption in the first systematic study of what scientists actually think and feel about religion. In the course of her research, Ecklund surveyed nearly 1,700 scientists and interviewed 275 of them. She finds that most of what we believe about the faith lives of elite scientists is wrong. Nearly 50 percent of them are religious. Many others are what she calls "spiritual entrepreneurs," seeking creative ways to work with the tensions between science and faith outside the constraints of traditional religion. The book centers around vivid portraits of 10 representative men and women working in the natural and social sciences at top American research universities. Ecklund's respondents run the gamut from Margaret, a chemist who teaches a Sunday-school class, to Arik, a physicist who chose not to believe in God well before he decided to become a scientist. Only a small minority are actively hostile to religion. Ecklund reveals how scientists-believers and skeptics alike-are struggling to engage the increasing number of religious students in their classrooms and argues that many scientists are searching for "boundary pioneers" to cross the picket lines separating science and religion.With broad implications for education, science funding, and the thorny ethical questions surrounding stem-cell research, cloning, and other cutting-edge scientific endeavors, Science vs. Religion brings a welcome dose of reality to the science and religion debates.
Author : Victor J. Stenger
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 13,97 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1616145994
Looking at both historical and contemporary contexts, the author argues that religion has played a major role in suppressing scientific pursuit.