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When Science Meets Religion: Enemies, Strangers, or Partners?

Ian G. Barbour

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Ian G. Barbour
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Contents

  1. When Science Meets Religion
  2. Ian G. Barbour
  3. Preface
  4. Science and Religion: Enemies, Strangers, or Partners?
  5. In the Beginning: Why Did the Big Bang Occur?
  6. Quantum Physics: A Challenge to Our Assumptions about Reality?
  7. Darwin and Genesis: Is Evolution God’s Way of Creating?
  8. Human Nature: Are We Determined by Our Genes?
  9. God and Nature: Can God Act in a Law-Abiding World?
  10. Introduction
  11. Chapter One
  12. Four Views of Science and Religion
  13. CONFLICT
  14. 1. Scientific Materialism
  15. 2. Biblical Literalism
  16. INDEPENDENCE
  17. 1. Separate Domains
  18. 2. Differing Languages and Functions
  19. DIALOGUE
  20. 1. Presuppositions and Limit-Questions
  21. 2. Methodological and Conceptual Parallels
  22. INTEGRATION
  23. 1. Natural Theology
  24. 2. Theology of Nature
  25. 3. Systematic Synthesis
  26. Chapter Two
  27. Astronomy and Creation
  28. CONFLICT
  29. 1. A Universe by Chance
  30. 2. Harmonizing Genesis and the Big Bang
  31. INDEPENDENCE
  32. 1. The Religious Meaning of Creation
  33. 2. The Function of Creation Stories
  34. DIALOGUE
  35. 1. The Intelligibility of the Cosmos
  36. 2. The Contingency of the Cosmos
  37. INTEGRATION
  38. 1. Design: The Anthropic Principle
  39. 2. Models of God as Creator
  40. 3. The Significance of Humanity
  41. Chapter Three
  42. The Implications of Quantum Physics
  43. CONFLICT
  44. 1. God in a Deterministic World
  45. 2. God and Chance
  46. INDEPENDENCE
  47. 1. Instrumentalist Views of Quantum Theory
  48. 2. The Lesson of Complementarity
  49. DIALOGUE
  50. 1. The Role of the Observer
  51. 2. Holism in the Quantum World
  52. INTEGRATION
  53. 1. Eastern Mysticism and Quantum Holism
  54. 2. God and Quantum Indeterminacy
  55. Chapter Four
  56. Evolution and Continuing Creation
  57. CONFLICT
  58. 1. Evolutionary Materialism
  59. 2. Theistic Critics of Neo-Darwinism
  60. INDEPENDENCE

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