VOLUME ONE. Lists of Figures and Tables xii
Biographical Sketches xiv
Preface xx
Acknowledgements xxvi
Introduction to Volume One 1
Melville Y. Stewart
Part 1 Has Science Really Destroyed Its Own Religious Roots? 39
1 The Nature of Science 41
Del Ratzsch
2 The Religious Roots of Science 54
Del Ratzsch
3 The Alleged Demise of Religion 69
Del Ratzsch
Part 2 God and Physical Reality: Relativity, Time, and Quantum
Mechanics 85
4 Relativity, God, and Time 87
Thomas Greenlee
5 General Relativity, The Cosmic Microwave Background, and Moral
Relativism 93
Thomas Greenlee
6 Quantum Mechanics and the Nature of Reality 97
Thomas Greenlee
Part 3 Interaction Between Science and Christianity 105
7 Science and Religion in Harmony 107
Deborah B. Haarsma
8 How Christians Reconcile Ancient Texts with Modern Science
120
Deborah B. Haarsma
9 Christian and Atheist Responses to Big Bang Cosmology 131
Deborah B. Haarsma
Part 4 Interplay of Scientific and Religious Knowledge Regarding
Evolution 151
10 Scientific Knowledge Does Not Replace Religious Knowledge
153
Loren Haarsma
11 God, Evolution, and Design 168
Loren Haarsma
12 Human Evolution and Objective Morality 181
Loren Haarsma
Part 5 The Universe Makes It Probable That There Is A God 203
13 What Makes a Scientific Theory Probably True 205
Richard Swinburne
14 The Argument to God from the Laws of Nature 213
Richard Swinburne
15 The Argument to God from Fine-Tuning 223
Richard Swinburne
Part 6 A Paleontologist Considers Science and Religion 235
16 Is Intelligent Design Really Intelligent? 237
Peter Dodson
17 God and the Dinosaurs Revisited 243
Peter Dodson
18 Science and Religion in the Public Square 251
Peter Dodson
Part 7 Christian Faith and Biological Explanation 265
19 Evolutionary Creation: Common Descent and Christian Views of
Origins 267
Stephen Matheson
20 A Scientific and Religious Critique of Intelligent Design
278
Stephen Matheson
21 Biology, the Incarnation, and Christian Materialism 290
Stephen Matheson
Part 8 Religion, Naturalism, and Science 299
22 Science and Religion: Why Does the Debate Continue? 301
Alvin Plantinga
23 Divine Action in the World 317
Alvin Plantinga
24 The Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism 324
Alvin Plantinga
Part 9 Science and Theology as Faithful Human Activities 333
25 Two For the Ages: Origen and Newton 335
Gary Patterson
26 The Holy Trinity of Nineteenth-Century British Science: Faraday,
Maxwell, and Rayleigh 345
Gary Patterson
27 A Professor in Dialogue with His Faith 359
Gary Patterson
Part 10 Cosmology and Theology 369
28 Our Place in the Vast Universe 371
Don N. Page
29 Does God So Love the Multiverse? 380
Don N. Page
30 Scientific and Philosophical Challenges to Theism 396
Don N. Page
Part 11 Science Under Stress in the Twentieth Century: Lessons from
the Case of Early Nuclear Physics 411
31 The Copenhagen Spirit of Science and Birth of the Nuclear Atom
413
Richard Peterson
32 When Scientists Go to War 420
Richard Peterson
33 Scientific Responsibility: A Quest for Good Science and Good
Applications 429
Richard Peterson
Part 12 The Science of Religion 437
34 The Evolution of Religion: Adaptationist Accounts 439
Michael J. Murray
35 The Evolution of Religion: Non-Adaptationist Accounts 458
Michael J. Murray
36 Evolutionary Accounts of Religion: Explaining or Explaining Away
472
Michael J. Murray
Part 13 Belief in God 479
37 How Real People Believe: Reason and Belief in God 481
Kelly James Clark
38 Reformed Epistemology and the Cognitive Science of Religion
500
Kelly James Clark
39 Explaining God Away? 514
Kelly James Clark
VOLUME TWO.
Introduction to Volume Two 527
Melville Y. Stewart
Part 14 Background Topics for the Science and Religion Dialogue
603
40 Reflections on the Scientific Revolution (1543?1687) 605
Owen Gingerich
41 Designing a Universe Congenial for Life 618
Owen Gingerich
Part 15 Stewardship and Economic Harmony: Living Sustainability on
Earth 629
42 Earth's Biospheric Economy 631
Calvin DeWitt
43 The Steward and the Economist 645
Calvin DeWitt
44 Sustainable Living in the Biosphere 658
Calvin DeWitt
Part 16 Cosmology and Theism 671
45 God, Time, and Infinity 673
William Lane Craig
46 Time and Eternity 683
William Lane Craig
47 The End of the World 703
William Lane Craig
Part 17 Theology and Science in a Postmodern Context 721
48 Theology and Science in a Postmodern Context 723
Nancey Murphy
49 Science and Divine Action 732
Nancey Murphy
50 Theology, Science and Human Nature 740
Nancey Murphy
Part 18 Darwin and Intelligent Design 749
51 Darwin and Intelligent Design 751
Francisco J. Ayala
Part 19 The Laws of Physics and Bio-Friendliness 767
52 The Nature of the Laws of Physics and Their Mysterious
Bio-Friendliness 769
Paul Davies
Part 20 Time and Open Theism 789
53 The A-Theory of Time, Presentism, and Open Theism 791
Dean Zimmerman
Part 21 Science and Scripture 811
54 A Kind of Darwinism 813
Peter van Inwagen
55 Darwinism and Design 825
Peter van Inwagen
56 Science and Scripture 835
Peter van Inwagen
Part 22 The Mutuality of Science and Theology 847
57 Science and Religion in Western History: Models and
Relationships 849
Alan Padgett
58 Overcoming the Problem of Induction: Science and Religion as
Ways of Knowing 862
Alan Padgett
59 God and Time: Relative Timelessness Reconsidered 884
Alan Padgett
Part 23 Physics and Scientific Materialism 893
60 The Laws of Physics and the Design of the Universe 895
Stephen M. Barr
61 The Multiverse and the State of Fundamental Physics Today
911
Stephen M. Barr
62 Philosophical Materialism and the Many-Worlds Interpretation of
Quantum Mechanics 928
Stephen M. Barr
Part 24 Biotechnology and Human Dignity 943
63 Embodied Being: Evolution and the Emergence of the Human Person
945
William Hurlbut
64 Embryos, Ethics, and Human Dignity 960
William Hurlbut
65 Biotechnology and the Human Future 974
William Hurlbut
Part 25 Science, Emergence, and Religion 985
66 Freedom, Consciousness, and Science: An Emergentist Response to
the Challenge 987
Philip Clayton
67 Mediating Between Physicalism and Dualism: "Broad Naturalism"
and the Study of Consciousness 999
Philip Clayton
Part 26 Theories and Unobservables: The Realist/Nonrealist Debate
in Science and Religion 1011
68 Scientific Realism 1013
Bruce Reichenbach
69 Religious Realism 1034
Bruce Reichenbach
70 Experience and the Unobservable 1053
Bruce Reichenbach
Glossary 1078
Index 1087
Melville Y. Stewart is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Bethel University, St. Paul, Minnesota. His many previous publications include East & West Philosophy of Religion (with Zhang Zhigang, 1998), Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology of Contemporary Views (1996) and The Greater-Good Defence: An Essay on the Rationality of Faith (1993).
"In sum, whereas there are a few papers that are 'technical', the vast majority will be interesting to the general reader, though profitable also to the scholar, as they are both thought-provoking and enlightening, Science and Religion in Dialogue offers an (almost) complete guide to most of the current thinking on the complementary disciplines of science and faith." ( The Heythrop Journal , 24 May 2013) "This excellent collection of papers was written by 12 philosophers and 14 scientists who participated in a five-year-long "Science and Religion" series held at five major Chinese universities. These world-class scientists, philosophers, and theologians engage in a genuine dialogue in their papers based on the idea that science and religion have things in common and enough of a common universe of discourse to participate in a meaningful exchange, since science and religion not only are logically compatible when both are properly understood and described, but also are complementary. An excellent introduction explains the focus for each of the 26 areas into which the papers are grouped. These sections range from "Has Science Really Destroyed Its Own Religious Roots?" to "Theories and Unobservables: The Realist/Nonrealist Debate in Science and Religion." Each paper is preceded by an abstract, and all but three of the writers are represented by three papers in a specific area. Documentation is excellent, and the second volume contains a glossary. This collection is an excellent resource for those wishing to explore the current state of dialogue between science and religion. Although a few of the papers are somewhat technical, interested general readers will find these essays very thought-provoking." ( CHOICE, December 2010)
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