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Zusatztext "As an introductory text that offers a fair and accurate treatment of the roles and non-roles of faith for important scientists, one would be hard pressed to do better." ---Jason Robinson, European Legacy Informationen zum Autor Nancy K. Frankenberry is the John Phillips Professor of Religion at Dartmouth College. Her books include Radical Interpretation in Religion and Religion and Radical Empiricism . Klappentext The Faith of Scientists is an anthology of writings by twenty-one legendary scientists! from the dawn of the Scientific Revolution to the frontiers of science today! about their faith! their views about God! and the place religion holds--or doesn't--in their lives in light of their commitment to science. This is the first book to bring together so many world-renowned figures of Western science and present them in their own words! offering an intimate window into their private and public reflections on science and faith Zusammenfassung An anthology of writings by twenty-one scientists, from the dawn of the Scientific Revolution to the frontiers of science, about their faith, their views about God, and the place religion holds - or doesn't - in their lives in light of their commitment to science. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction vii Acknowledgments xvii PART ONE: Founders of Modern Science 1 Chapter 1: Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) 3 Chapter 2: Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) 34 Chapter 3: Francis Bacon (1561-1626) 59 Chapter 4: Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) 79 Chapter 5: Isaac Newton (1643-1727) 102 Chapter 6: Charles Darwin (1809-1882) 122 Chapter 7: Albert Einstein (1879-1955) 143 Chapter 8: Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) 177 PART TWO: Scientists of Our Time Chapter 9: Rachel Carson (1907-1964) 197 Chapter 10: Carl Sagan (1934-1996) 222 Chapter 11: Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) 249 Chapter 12: Richard Dawkins (1941-) 268 Chapter 13: Jane Goodall (1934-) 296 Chapter 14: Steven Weinberg (1933-) 317 Chapter 15: John Polkinghorne (1930-) 340 Chapter 16: Freeman Dyson (1923-) 365 Chapter 17: Stephen Hawking (1942-) 392 Chapter 18: Paul Davies (1946-) 412 Chapter 19: Edward O. Wilson (1929-) 437 Chapter 20: Stuart A. Kauffman (1939-) 452 Chapter 21: Ursula Goodenough (1944-) 475 Permission Acknowledgments 505 Index 513 ...
