Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Religion & Science

Most people, when they think about the purported conflict between science and religion, would most likely think first of evangelical Protestantism. Because of the prominent place evolution versus creationism - and such events as the Scopes Trial - has had in the debates over science and religion, many people think of evangelicals as hostile to science. As with other volumes in the Greenwood Guides to Science and Religion series, this work addresses the more complex interworkings between modern science and evangelical Christianity. Creationism will feature prominently, of course, but there...

This volume in the Greenwood Guides to Science and Religion series examines how Asian spiritual traditions -- primarily the religions of India and China - interacted and influenced the understanding of the natural world over the last two millennia. Unlike the religious and scientific traditions of the Christian West, which developed in tandem, or even the Islamic world, which helped the rise of Western science, the Asian religious traditions did not encounter Western science until relatively recently. This has led to a unique relationship between these two cultural phenomena. The volume...

Can religion survive Darwinism? Do scientists entering the lab or heading for the field have to bracket, or reject outright, all religious commitments and convictions? Trenchantly laying out the evidence for natural selection and carefully following and underscoring the themes and theses of Genesis, L. E. Goodman traces the historical and conceptual backgrounds of today's evolution controversies, revealing the deep complementarities of religion and the life sciences. Solidly researched and replete with scientific case studies, vignettes from intellectual history, and thoughtful argument,...

Each chapter concludes with useful discussion guides for students or small groups. Ayres calls for the rediscovery of the spiritual legacy of...

Using solid scholarship and rigorous logic, "A...

Based on three years of on-site investigation, and a plethora of data and research collected on the modern Spiritualist movement in America, "Talking to the Other Side" focuses upon the ethno-religious aspects of the religion, mediumship, and the mediums themselves.

The first...

What was God doing before creation? If God created everything out of nothing (Gen.1: 1) did He exist in the middle of nothing? Was He the only "something" in nothing?

In the flood story God destroyed humans as...

Each year this award-winning preacher set himself the discipline of preparing a Christmas Eve sermon for people who had no previous exposure to the Christian message. The result: sermons about flying saucers, aliens, teddy bears and angels and above all about the costly love of God for the human race.

"In the midst of the struggles of our personal history and of world history, it is easy for us to whom it has been revealed to forget that the Angels are singing. So we come here to have our ears tuned and our sight refined that we might hear this song and see this invisible glory."

"The Search for God: An Islamic Perspective of Science and Faith "delves into the often-parallel worlds of science and religion. Through a combination of logic, analogy, science, and faith, Sabet addresses the question of God's existence. As a Muslim...