∗ Quantum Physics: A Challenge to Our Assumptions About Reality?
∗ Darwin And Genesis: Is Evolution God′s Way of Creating?
∗ Human Nature: Are We Determined by Our Genes?
∗ God And Nature: Can God Act in a Law-Bound World?
Over the centuries and into the new millennium, scientists, theologians, and the general public have shared many questions about the implications of scientific...
The Gifford Lectures have challenged our greatest thinkers to relate the worlds of religion, philosophy, and science. Now Ian Barbour has joined ranks with such Gifford lecturers as William James, Carl Jung, and Reinhold Neibuhr. In 1989 Barbour presented his first series of Gifford Lectures, published as Religion in an Age of Science. In 1990 he returned to Scotland to present his second series, dealing with ethical issues arising from technology and exploring the relationship of human and environmental values to science, philosophy, and religion and showing why these values are...
The Gifford Lectures have challenged our greatest thinkers to relate the worlds of religion, philosophy, and science. Now Ian Barbour has joined ra...
Religion and Science is a definitive contemporary discussion of the many issues surrounding our understanding of God and religious truth and experience in our understanding of God and religious truth and experience in our scientific age. This is a significantly expanded and feshly revised version of Religion in an Age of Science, winner of the American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence and the Templeton Book Award. Ian G. Barbour--the premier scholar in the field--has added three crucial historical chapters on physics and metaphysics in the seventeenth century,...
Religion and Science is a definitive contemporary discussion of the many issues surrounding our understanding of God and religious truth a...
Where did we come from? Where are we going? Why? These are some of the questions addressed in this book by some of the world's most distinguished scientists. Through intimate conversations with leading scientists who hold religious beliefs (including two Nobel Laureates), the reader is invited to explore the connections and conflicts between the scientific and the religious approaches to truth. Subjects range from the existence and nature of God to the role of spirituality in modern science. The result is a mosaic of unguarded accounts of how two of the major cultural forces can work together...
Where did we come from? Where are we going? Why? These are some of the questions addressed in this book by some of the world's most distinguished scie...
Thoroughly conversant with current developments, Barbour offers astute analyses of the shape and importance of evolutionary theory, indeterminacy, neuroscience, information theory and artificial intelligence.
Thoroughly conversant with current developments, Barbour offers astute analyses of the shape and importance of evolutionary theory, indeterminacy, neu...