Preface and Acknowledgements | |
Contributor biographies | |
Introduction | |
Has Science Really Destroyed Its Own Religious Roots? | |
"The Nature of Science" | |
"The Religious Roots of Science" | |
"The Alleged Demise of Religion" | |
God and Physical Reality: Relativity, Time and Quantum Mechanics | |
"Relativity, God, and Time" | |
"General Relativity, The Cosmic Microwave Background, and Moral Relativism" | |
"Quantum Mechanics and the Nature of Reality" | |
Interactions Between Science and Christianity | |
" Science and Religion in Harmony" | |
"How Christians Reconcile Ancient Texts with Modern Science" | |
"Christian and Atheist Responses to Big Bang Cosmology" | |
Interplay of Scientific and Religious Knowledge Regarding Evolution | |
Replace Religious Knowledge" | |
"God, Evolution and Design" | |
"Human Evolution and Objective Morality" | |
The Universe Makes It Probable That There Is A God | |
"What Makes a Scientific Theory Probably True" | |
"The Argument to God from the Laws of Nature" | |
"The Argument to God from Fine-Tuning" | |
A Paleontologist Considers Science and Religion | |
"Is Intelligent Design Really Intelligent?" | |
"God and the Dinosaurs Revisited" | |
"Science and Religion in the Public Square" | |
Christian Faith and Biological Explanation | |
"Evolutionary Creation: Common Descent and Christian Views of Origins" | |
"A Scientific and Religious Critique of Intelligent Design" | |
"Biology, the Incarnation, and Christian Materialism" | |
Religion, Naturalism and Science | |
"Science and Religion: Why Does the Debate Continue?" | |
"Divine Action in the World" | |
"The Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism" | |
Science and Theology as Faithful Human Activities | |
"Two For the Ages: Origen and Newton" | |
"The Holy Trinity of 19th | |
Century British Science: Faraday, Maxwell, and Rayleigh" | |
"A Professor in Dialogue with His Faith" | |
Cosmology and Theology | |
"Our Place in the Vast Universe" | |
"Does God So Love the Multiverse?" | |
"Scientific and Philosophical Challenges to Theism" | |
Science Under Stress in the 20th Century: Lessons from the Case of Early Nuclear Physics | |
"The Copenhagen Spirit of Science and Birth of the Nuclear Atom" | |
"When Scientists Go to War", | |
"Scientific Responsibility: A Quest for Good Science and Good Applications", | |
The Science of Religion | |
"The Evolution of Religion: Adaptationist Accounts" | |
"The Evolution of Religion: Non-adaptationist accounts" | |
"Evolutionary Accounts of Religion: Explaining or Explaining Away" | |
Belief in God | |
"How Real People Believe: Reason & Belief in God" | |
"Reformed Epistemology and the Cognitive Science of Religion" | |
"Explaining God Away: The Challenge of Evolutionary Psychology" | |
Volume II Contributor Biographies | |
Introduction | |
Background Topics for the Science and Religion Dialogue | |
"Reflections on the Scientific Revolution(1543-1687)" | |
"Designing a Universe Congenial for Life" | |
Stewardship and Economic Harmony: Living Sustainability on Earth | |
"Earth's Biospheric Economy" | |
"The Steward and the Economist" | |
"Sustainable Living in the Biosphere" | |
Cosmology and Theism | |
"God, Time and Infinity" | |
"Time and Eternity" | |
"The End of the World" | |
Theology and Science in a Postmodern Context | |
"Science and Theological Rationality" | |
"Science and Divine Action" | |
"Theology, Science and Human Nature" | |
Darwin and Intelligent Design | |
"Darwin and Intelligent Design" | |
The Laws of Physics and Bio-friendliness | |
"The Nature of the Laws of Physics and Their Mysterious Bio-friendliness" | |
Time and Theism | |
"The A-Theory of Time, Presentism, and Open Theism" | |
Science and Scripture | |
"A Kind of Darwinism" | |
"Darwinism and Design" | |
"Science and Scripture" | |
The Mutuality of Science and Theology | |
"Science and Religion in Western History: Models and Relationships" | |
"Overcoming the Problem of Induction: Science and Religion as Ways of Knowing" | |
"God and Time: Relative Timelessness Reconsidered" | |
Physics and Scientific Materialism | |
"The Laws of Physics and the Design of the Universe" | |
"The Multiverse and the State of Fundamental Physics Today" | |
"Philosophical Materialism and the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics" | |
Biotechnology and Human Dignity | |
"Embodied Being: Evolution and the Emergence of the Human Person" | |
"Embryos, Ethics and Human Dignity" | |
"Biotechnology and the Human Future" | |
Science, Emergence, and Religion | |
"Freedom, Consciousness, and Science: An Emergentist Response to the Challenge" | |
"Mediating Between Physicalism and Dualism: 'Broad Naturalism' and the Study of Consciousness" | |
Theories and Unobservables: The Realist/Nonrealist Debate in Science and Religion | |
"Scientific Realism" | |
"Religious Realism" | |
"Experience and the Unobservable" | |
Glossary | |
Index | |
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