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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Harmony or Conflict? | |
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| Cosmology and Scripture | |
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| Cosmology | |
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| Genesis and Hermeneutics | |
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| Augustine's Hermeneutics | |
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| Calvin's Hermeneutics | |
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| Galileo and the Church | |
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| Bellarmino's Dilemma | |
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| Galileo's Reconciliatory Hermeneutics | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Hermeneutics of Science and Religion: Realism and Antirealism | |
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| Osiander's Preface | |
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| Antirealist Accounts of Science | |
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| Scientific Realism and Inference to the Best Explanation | |
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| Antirealism in Philosophy of Religion | |
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| Knowledge and Power | |
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| The Heritage of Greek Logic and Geometry | |
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| The Image of God | |
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| Descartes, Rationality, and the Perspicuity of Nature | |
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| Francis Bacon's Vision of Science and Technology | |
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| Bacon and the Cultural Mandate | |
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| Twentieth-Century Critiques of the Baconian Vision | |
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| From God to Science and Back: The Mutual Relevance of Science and Religion | |
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| Miracles | |
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| Hume's Theory of Rational Belief | |
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| Testimonial Evidence | |
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| The Concept of a Miracle | |
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| Hume's First Argument against Miracles | |
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| A Problem for Testimony | |
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| Hume's 'Limitation' | |
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| Hume's Second Argument against Miracles | |
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| Schlesinger's Defence of Miracles | |
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| Creation and Evolution | |
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| Teleological and Mechanical Explanation | |
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| Paley's Design Argument | |
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| Darwin's The Origin of Species | |
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| Natural Selection or Special Creation? | |
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| Darwin and God | |
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| Darwin and Asa Gray | |
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| From the Monkey Jibe to the Monkey Trial | |
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| Creation Science | |
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| Big Bang Cosmology and God | |
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| Kalam Cosmological Argument and the Infinite Universe | |
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| Big Bang Cosmology | |
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| The Anthropic Principle | |
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| God as an Explanation | |
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| Chance and Many Worlds Explanations | |
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| The Inverse Gambler's Fallacy | |
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| The Observer Selection Effect | |
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| Denial of the Need for Explanation | |
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| God and Chance | |
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| The Chance Worldview | |
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| Providence | |
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| Three Models of Providence | |
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| Quantum Chance | |
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| Chance and Providence | |
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| Physical Chance, Divine Cause | |
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| Physical Chance, No Divine Cause | |
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| Meaningless Coincidences | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Interaction of Science and Religion | |
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| Mutual Interaction | |
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| Defeasibility and the God of the Gaps Objection | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |