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Philosophy, Science and Religion for Everyone

Author : Duncan Pritchard

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 273 pages

File Size : 29,90 MB

Release : 2017-07-20

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 1351592165

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Philosophy, Science and Religion for Everyone brings together these great truth-seeking disciplines, and seeks to understand the ways in which they challenge and inform each other. Key topics and their areas of focus include: • Foundational Issues – why should anyone care about the science-and-religion debate? How do scientific claims relate to the truth? Is evolution compatible with design? • Faith and Rationality – can faith ever be rational? Are theism and atheism totally opposed? Is God hidden or does God simply not exist? • Faith and Science - what provides a better explanation for the origin of the universe—science or religion? Faith and physics: can they be reconciled? Does contemporary neuroscience debunk religious belief? Creationism and evolutionary biology - what constitutes science and what constitutes pseudo-science? • Practical Implications – is fundamentalism just a problem for religious people? What are the ethical implications of the science-and-religion debate? Do logic and religion mix? This book is designed to be used in conjunction with the free ‘Philosophy, Science and Religion’ MOOC (massive open online course) created by the University of Edinburgh, and hosted by the Coursera platform (www.coursera.org). This book is also highly recommended for anyone looking for a concise overview of this fascinating discipline.



After Science and Religion

Author : Peter Harrison

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 369 pages

File Size : 47,88 MB

Release : 2022-05-19

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1316517926

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A ground-breaking volume of innovative conversations between science and religion which move beyond hackneyed positions of either conflict or dialogue.



The Varieties of Scientific Experience

Author : Carl Sagan

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 316 pages

File Size : 31,16 MB

Release : 2006-11-02

Category : Science

ISBN : 1101201835

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“Ann Druyan has unearthed a treasure. It is a treasure of reason, compassion, and scientific awe. It should be the next book you read.” —Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith “A stunningly valuable legacy left to all of us by a great human being. I miss him so.” —Kurt Vonnegut Carl Sagan's prophetic vision of the tragic resurgence of fundamentalism and the hope-filled potential of the next great development in human spirituality The late great astronomer and astrophysicist describes his personal search to understand the nature of the sacred in the vastness of the cosmos. Exhibiting a breadth of intellect nothing short of astounding, Sagan presents his views on a wide range of topics, including the likelihood of intelligent life on other planets, creationism and so-called intelligent design, and a new concept of science as "informed worship." Originally presented at the centennial celebration of the famous Gifford Lectures in Scotland in 1985 but never published, this book offers a unique encounter with one of the most remarkable minds of the twentieth century.





Biology, Religion, and Philosophy

Author : Michael Peterson

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 285 pages

File Size : 43,71 MB

Release : 2021-04-08

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 1107031486

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A comprehensive and accessible survey of the major issues at the biology-religion interface.



Science, Philosophy and Religion

Author : John Bascom

Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand

Page : 322 pages

File Size : 29,87 MB

Release : 2023-04-08

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 3382171007

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.



The Cambridge Companion to Science and Religion

Author : Peter Harrison

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 323 pages

File Size : 10,48 MB

Release : 2010-06-24

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 0521712513

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This book explores the historical relations between science and religion and discusses contemporary issues with perspectives from cosmology, evolutionary biology and bioethics.



Science, Philosophy and Religion

Author : Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion in their Relation to the Democratic Way of Life. Symposium

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Page : pages

File Size : 24,50 MB

Release : 1940

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It Keeps Me Seeking

Author : Andrew Briggs

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 367 pages

File Size : 49,75 MB

Release : 2018-09-05

Category : Science

ISBN : 0192535862

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Here is a fresh look at how science contributes to the bigger picture of human flourishing, through a collage of science and philosophy, richly illustrated by the authors' own experience and personal reflection. They survey the territory of fundamental physics, machine learning, philosophy of human identity, evolutionary biology, miracles, arguments from design, naturalism, the history of ideas, and more. The natural world can be appreciated not only for itself, but also as an eloquent gesture, a narrative and a pointer beyond itself. Our human journey is not to a theorem or a treatise, but to a meeting which encompasses all our capacities. In this meeting, science is the means to find out about the structure of the physical world of which we are a part, not a means to reduce ourselves and our fellow human beings to mere objects of scrutiny, and still less a means to attempt the utterly futile exercise of trying to do that to God. We have intellectual permission to be open to the notion that God can be trusted and known. The material world encourages an open-hearted reaching out to something more, with a freedom to seek and to be received by what lies beyond the scope of purely impersonal descriptions and attitudes.