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Just as modern science has revolutionized our understanding of the natural world, so can it expand our understanding of the Divine. In topics as varied as astronomy and cosmology, evolution, genetic engineering, extraterrestrial life, psychology and religious experience, spirituality and medicine, and artificial intelligence, fifty key thinkers discuss the interrelationship between science and religion.
Contributors include Robert Jastrow, first chairman of NASA’s Lunar Exploration Committee and currently director of the Mount Wilson Institute; Rod Davies, former director of the Jodrell Bank Radio Astronomy Laboratories, U.K.; Owen Gingerich, senior astronomer, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory; Paul Davies, recipient of the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion; Sir John Haughton, former director general of the United Kingdom Meteorological Office; Lord Habgood, former archbishop of York; and science writers Kitty Ferguson and Gregg Easterbrook.
The writers are drawn from eight countries and represent the Christian, Jewish, Islamic, and Hindu traditions. Most are scientists by profession, but also included are philosophers, theologians, and psychologists. Each chapter of this innovative, accessible book helps to expand our thinking in light of what is known at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Taken as a whole, this book presents a challenging understanding of God and of God’s interaction with the world and with ourselves.
Topics covered include:
Creation and evolution
Life on other planets
Genetic engineering
Faith and medicine
The mind and the soul
Quantum physics
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Part One – Origins / 1
A Creation Story for Our Times / 3
Ted Burge
The Alpha and the Omega of Space and Time / 6
Rod Davies
What Happened before the Big Bang? 10
Paul Davies
Part Two – The Universe as a Home for Life 13
Big and Old and Dark and Cold / 15
Michael Poole
Ingredients for Life / 18
Owen Gingerich
An Icon for the Millennium 22
Bruno Guiderdoni
Why Does the Universe Work? / 26
Howard Van Till
A Revealed but Hidden God / 29
Carl Feit
Meaning Makes a Comeback / 32
Gregg Easterbrook
Part Three – Evolutionary Biology / 37
Did Darwin Kill God? / 39
Sam Berry
The Disguised Friend: Darwinism and Divinity / 43
Arthur Peacocke
Evolution: The Key to Knowledge of God? / 47
Wentzel Van Huyssteen
The Evolutionary Past and Future of God / 51
Barbara Smith-Moran
Part Four – Life in the Universe / 55
Are We Alone? / 57
Christopher Kaiser
A Cosmic Perspective on Human Existence / 60
Robert Jastrow
What Are Extraterrestrials Really Like? / 64
Robert Russell
Bethlehem: Center of the Universe? / 67
Willem B. Drees
Jesus in Islam / 71
Zaki Badawi
Part Five – Genes and Genetic Engineering / 75
Gene Wars / 77
Keith Ward
After the Human Genome Project / 80
Elving Anderson
All in the Genes / 83
John Habgood
Our Genetic Future / 86
Ted Peters
Genetic Engineering: Foe or Friend? / 89
Celia Deane-Drummond
Cloning: Promise of Immortality or Threat? / 92
Michael Northcott
Part Six – Faith, Medicine, and Well-being / 97
Wealth and Well-being / 99
David Myers
Is Religion Good for Your Health? / 103
Dale Matthews
The Healing Power of Faith / 107
Harold Koenig
Medical Aspects of Belief / 111
Herbert Benson and Patricia Myers
Part Seven – The Mind / 115
Freud Works with God? Unlikely Allies / 117
Daniel Blazer
Brain Science and Religious Experience / 121
Fraser Watts
The Science of Art / 124
Vilayanur Ramachandran
Part Eight – Personhood and the Soul / 129
Whatever Became of the Soul? / 131
Malcolm Jeeves
More Than a Body? / 134
John Polkinghorne
Anne Foerst 137 Robot: Child of God
Computers and Morality / 141
Henry Thompson
Part Nine – Quantum Physics and Relativity / 145
God or Chance? / 147
David Bartholomew
Paradoxes in Science and Theology / 150
Russell Stannard
Einstein’s View of God / 153
Nancy Abrams and Joel Primack
Where Is God? Thinking in More Than Three Dimensions / 157
John Houghton
Part Ten – Limitations to Science / 161
Are There Limitations to Science? / 163
George Ellis
Can God Really Act in Our World and in Our Lives? / 166
William Stoeger
Science and Religion: Converging Paths to Truth / 169
Robert Herrmann
Part Eleven – Science/Religion Dialogue / 173
What I Want My Teenager to Know about the God/Science Debate / 175
Kitty Ferguson
God or Science: Do I Have to Choose? / 178
Martinez Hewlett
Science and Religion: Heading for Partnership? / 182
Cyril Domb
The Need for Wonder / 186
Mary Midgley
Science and Religion: What Is It All For? / 189
Pauline Rudd
Theistic Science / 192
Mehdi Golshani
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