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When Science Meets Religion Enemies, Strangers, or Partners?

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ISBN-10: 006060381X

ISBN-13: 9780060603816

Edition: 2000

Authors: Ian G. Barbour, E. Barbour

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The Definitive Introduction To The Relationship Between Religion And Science * In The Beginning: Why Did the Big Bang Occur? * Quantum Physics: A Challenge to Our Assumptions About Reality? * Darwin And Genesis: Is Evolution God's Way of Creating? * Human Nature: Are We Determined by Our Genes? * God And Nature: Can God Act in a Law-Bound World? Over the centuries and into the new millennium, scientists, theologians, and the general public have shared many questions about the implications of scientific discoveries for religious faith. Nuclear physicist and theologian Ian Barbour, winner of the 1999 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion for his pioneering role in advancing the…    
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List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 5/16/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

Throughout his career, Ian Barbour has been at the forefront of the dialogue between scientists and theologians. Trained as a physicist, with a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (1950), and as a theologian, with a B.D. from Yale University (1956), Barbour has drawn on the philosophical insights of both disciplines to transcend their boundaries. As a professor of both physics and religion, Barbour's initial books depict the relationships between physical science and religion. For example, his broad-ranging overview Issues in Science and Religion (1966) and his classic Myths, Models and Paradigms (1974) focus on the language parallels between these disciplines. During the 1970s and 1980s,…    

Preface
Introduction
Four Views of Science and Religion
Conflict
Scientific Materialism
Biblical Literalism
Independence
Separate Domains
Differing Languages and Functions
Dialogue
Presuppositions and Limit-Questions
Methodological and Conceptual Parallels
Integration
Natural Theology
Theology of Nature
Systematic Synthesis
Astronomy and Creation
Conflict
A Universe by Chance
Harmonizing Genesis and the Big Bang
Independence
The Religious Meaning of Creation
The Function of Creation Stories
Dialogue
The Intelligibility of the Cosmos
The Contingency of the Cosmos
Integration
Design: The Anthropic Principle
Models of God as Creator
The Significance of Humanity
The Implications of Quantum Physics
Conflict
God in a Deterministic World
God and Chance
Independence
Instrumentalist Views of Quantum Theory
The Lesson of Complementarity
Dialogue
The Role of the Observer
Holism in the Quantum World
Integration
Eastern Mysticism and Quantum Holism
God and Quantum Indeterminacy
Evolution and Continuing Creation
Conflict
Evolutionary Materialism
Theistic Critics of Neo-Darwinism
Independence
Contrasting Domains and Methods
Primary and Secondary Causality
Dialogue
Complexity and Self-Organization
The Concept of Information
A Hierarchy of Levels
Integration
Evolutionary Design
God and Continuing Creation
Process Philosophy
Genetics, Neuroscience, and Human Nature
Conflict
Reductive Materialism
Sociobiology and Human Morality
Genetic Determinism and Human Freedom
Independence
Body/Soul Dualism
Body and Soul: Complementary Perspectives
Sin and Redemption
Dialogue
Neuroscience and the Embodied Self
Anthropology and the Social Self
The Computer and the Brain
Integration
Biological Organism and Responsible Self
Mind and Brain: Two Aspects of One Process
Process Philosophy
God and Nature
Conflict
Naturalistic Critiques of Theism
Religious Naturalism
Independence
Primary and Secondary Causality
Complementary Languages
Dialogue
God as Designer of a Self-Organizing Process
God as Communicator of Information
God's Self-Limitation
Integration
God as Determiner of Indeterminacies
God as Top-Down Cause
Process Theology
Notes
Index of Names
Index of Selected Topics