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Religion and Science Debate Why Does It Continue?

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ISBN-10: 030015299X

ISBN-13: 9780300152999

Edition: 2009

Authors: Harold W. Attridge, Keith Stewart Thomson, Ronald L. Numbers, Kenneth R. Miller, Lawrence M. Krauss

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Eighty-one years after America witnessed the Scopes trial over the teaching of evolution in public schools, the debate between science and religion continues. In this book scholars from a variety of disciplinessociology, history, science, and theologyprovide new insights into the contemporary dialogue as well as some perspective suggestions for delineating the responsibilities of both the scientific and religious spheres. Why does the tension between science and religion continue? How have those tensions changed during the past one hundred years? How have those tensions impacted the public debate about so-called "intelligent design" as a scientific alternative to evolution? With wit and…    
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Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 9/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 0.54" wide x 0.85" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Andrew Hurley is a professor of history at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. Hurley is the author of Environmental Inequalities: Class, Race and Industrial Pollution in Gary, Indiana, 1945-1980 and Common Fields: An Environmental History of St. Louis.Lawrence Krauss is a theoretical physicist. Krauss is professor of physics, Foundation Professor of the School of Earth and Space Exploration, and director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University. He is the only physicist to have received awards from all three major U.S. physics societies: the American Physical Society, the American Association of Physics Teachers, and the American Institute of Physics. Lawrence Krauss received…