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:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Ltd., c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Does science pose a challenge to religion and religious belief? 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.

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-351-15038-3

1-281-09938-4

9786611099381

0-7546-8744-9

OCLC:

344105680