Science and Religion (Problems in Theology)

This reader brings together carefully selected material from a wide range of authors on the relationships between science, religion and theology.It samples the recent literature on the challenges to religion posed by both modern physics and evolutionary biology as well as exploring the relationship between scientific and theological approaches.Topics include models of interaction between science and religion, historical reflections on the "conflict thesis", scientific and theological methods, creation and modern cosmology, uncertainty and chaos, creationism and evolutionary theory, the anthropic principle and design, and the challenge of reductionism.Contributors include Ian Barbour, Michael Behe, Richard Dawkins, John Habgood, Mary Hesse, T. H. Huxley, Alister McGrath, Arthur Peacocke, John Polkinghorne, Michael Ruse, Keith Ward and Fraser Watts.>

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• Authors: Jeff Astley, Jeff Brown Astley, David Brown, Ann Loades
• Assisted by: Jeff Astley (Editor), David Brown (Editor), Ann Loades (Editor)
• Publisher: T. & T. Clark Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2004
• EAN: 9780567082435
• ISBN: 978-0-567-08243-5
• No. of pages: 128
• Series: Problems in Theology; Problems in Theology; Problems in Theology S.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Wissenschaftsphilosophie und -theorie