Religion and the challenges of science / edited by William Sweet and Richard Feist.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sweet, William.

Feist, Richard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and science.

Physical Description:

xii, 235 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Ltd., [2007]

Contents:

Introduction : rethinking relations between science and religion / William Sweet

'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 & Marie-Claire Groessens-Van Dyck

Biology and a theology of evolution / Arthur Peacocke

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-tuning argument shows / Kenneth Einar Himma

On scientific explanations of God-experiences / 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 sciences / Willem B. Drees

Beyond naturalism : scientific creativity and theological knowledge / Paul Allen

Can science provide evidence for metaphysics? / Leslie Armour

Science and religious belief : some conceptual issues / William Sweet.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780754657156

0754657159

OCLC:

71778930