Religion and the Challenges of Science (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Sweet, William; Feist, Richard

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Does science pose a challenge to religion and religious belief? This question has been a matter of long-standing debate - and it continues to concern not only scholars in philosophy, theology, and the sciences, but also those involved in public educational policy. This volume provides background to the current 'science and religion' debate, yet focuses as well on themes where recent discussion of the relation between science and religion has been particularly concentrated. The first theme deals with the history of the interrelation of science and religion. The second and third themes deal with the implications of recent work in cosmology, biology and so-called intelligent design for religion and religious belief. The fourth theme is concerned with 'conceptual issues' underlying, or implied, in the current debates, such as: Are scientific naturalism and religion compatible? Are science and religion bodies of knowledge or practices or both? Do religion and science offer conflicting truth claims? By illuminating contemporary discussion in the science-religion debate and by outlining the options available in describing the relation between the two, this volume will be of interest to scholars and to members of the educated public alike.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351150392
• Artikelnr.: 50406914

Autorenporträt

Richard Feist is Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy st Saint Paul University in Ottawa, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: rethinking relations between science and religion
William Sweet. Part I History and Contexts in Biology and Evolutionary Theory:'The declaration of students of the natural and physical sciences'
revisited: youth
science and religion in mid-Victorian Britain
Hannah Gay; Theological insights from Charles Darwin
Denis O. Lamoureux; A model of interaction between science and theology based on the scientific papers of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Lodovico Galleni and Marie Claire Groessens-van Dyke; Biology and a theology of evolution
Arthur Peacocke. Part II Physics
Philosophy
and Fine Tuning: Creation
metaphysics
and cosmology
Lawrence Dewan; Cosmological theories and the question of the existence of a creator
John L. Bell; Whitehead
God
and relativity
Richard Feist; Design inferences
fine-tuning
and the prior probability of divine intelligent agency: what the fine-tining argument shows
Kenneth Einar Himma. Part III Naturalism and the Non-Natural: On scientific explanations of mystical experience of God
Jerome Gellman; The human genome revolution
society
and religion
Job Kozhamthadam; Partner of the sciences or object of study? Theology and religion in relation to the natural and social sciences
Willem B. Drees; Beyond naturalism: scientific creativity and theological knowledge
Paul Allen. Part IV Conceptual Issues: Can science provide evidence for metaphysics?
Leslie Armour; Science and religious belief: some conceptual issues
William Sweet; Index.