Religion and science: historical and contemporary issues
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Preface xi
Introduction xiii
PART ONE
RELIGION AND THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE
1. PHYSICS AND METAPHYSICS IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 3
I. THE MEDIEVAL WORLD-DRAMA 4
1. Methods in Science: Explanation by Purposes 4
2. Nature as a Created Hierarchy 5
3. Methods in Theology: Reason and Revelation 6
4. God as Creator and Redeemer 7
5. Humanity as Center of the Cosmic Drama 8
II. GALILEO’S “TWO NEW SCIENCES” 9
1. Methods in Science: Mathematics and Observation 9
2. Nature as Particles in Motion 11
3. Methods in Theology: Scripture, Nature, and the Church 13
4. God as Author of Nature and Scripture 15
5. Humanity in the New Cosmology 16
III. THE NEWTONIAN WORLD-MACHINE 17
1. Methods in Science: Experiment and Theory 17
2. Nature as a Law-Abiding Machine 18
3. Methods in Theology: “Natural Theology” 19
4. God as Divine Clockmaker 21
5. Human Nature: Body and Mind 23
IV. RELIGION AND THE RISE OF SCIENCE:
CONFLICT OR HARMONY? 24
V. SUMMARY 29
2. NATURE AND GOD IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 33
I. THE AGE OF REASON 34
1. Nature as a Deterministic Mechanism 34
2. The God of Deism 36
3. Humanity as Perfectible by Reason 38
II. THE ROMANTIC REACTION 39
1. Romanticism in Literature 39
2. Pieusm and Methodism 41
III. PHILOSOPHICAL RESPONSES 42
1. Scientific Empiricism and Religious Agnosticism (Hume) 43
2. Science and Religion as Separate Realms (Kant) 45
IV. SUMMARY 47
vi / CONTENTS
3. BIOLOGY AND THEOLOGY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 49
I. DARWIN AND NATURAL SELECTION 50
1. Forerunners of Darwin 50
2. Darwin’s Scientific Work 52
3. Alternative Theories of Evolution 53
4. Nature as Dynamic Process 55
II. THEOLOGICAL ISSUES IN EVOLUTION 57
1. Methods in Theology: The Challenge to Scripture 57
2. God and Nature: The Challenge to Design 58
3. Human Nature: The Challenge to the Status of Humanity 59
4. Evolutionary Ethics and Social Darwinism 61
III. DIVERGING CURRENTS IN THEOLOGY 63
1. Traditionalist Responses to Evolution 64
2. The Modernist Movement 66
3. The Rise of Liberal Theology 68
4. Naturalistic Philosophies of Evolution 70
IV. SUMMARY 72
PART TWO
RELIGION AND THE METHODS OF SCIENCE
4. WAYS OF RELATING SCIENCE AND RELIGION 77
I. CONFLICT 77
1. Scientific Materialism 78
2. Biblical Literalism 82
II. INDEPENDENCE 84
1. Contrasting Methods 84
2. Differing Languages 87
III. DIALOGUE 90
1. Presuppositions and Limit Questions 90
2. Methodological Parallels 93
3. Nature-centered Spirituality 95
IV. INTEGRATION 98
1. Natural Theology 98
2. Theology of Nature 100
3. Systematic Synthesis 103
5. MODELS AND PARADIGMS 106
I. THE STRUCTURES OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION 106
1. Theory and Data in Science 106
2. Belief and Experience in Religion 110
3. Story and Ritual in Christianity 113
CONTENTS
/ vii
II. THE ROLE OF MODELS 115
1. Models in Science 115
2. Models in Religion 119
3. Personal and Impersonal Models 121
4. Christian Models 123
III. THE ROLE OF PARADIGMS 124
1. Paradigms in Science 125
2. Paradigms in Religion 127
3. Paradigms in Christianity 129
IV. TENTATIVENESS AND COMMITMENT 130
1. Tradition and Criticism 130
2. Central and Peripheral Beliefs 132
3. Revelation, Faith, and Reason 134
6. SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES 137
I. HISTORY IN SCIENCE AND RELIGION 137
1. Historical Explanation 137
2. Story and History in Christianity 141
II. OBJECTIVITY AND RELATIVISM 144
1. The Social Construction of Science 144
2. Third World Critiques 146
3. Feminist Critiques 147
III. RELIGIOUS PLURALISM 151
1. The Interpretation of Religious Experience 151
2. Between Absolutism and Relativism 154
3. Conclusions 157
PART THREE
RELIGION AND THE THEORIES OF SCIENCE
7. PHYSICS AND METAPHYSICS 165
I. QUANTUM THEORY 166
1. Complementarity 167
2. Indeterminacy 170
3. Parts and Wholes 173
4. Bell’s Theorem 175
II. RELATIVITY 177
1. Space, Time, and Matter 177
2. The Status of Time 179
III. ORDER AND COMPLEXITY 181
1. Thermodynamics and Order 181
2. Chaos Theory and Complexity 182
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IV. METAPHYSICAL IMPLICATIONS 184
1. The Role of Mind 184
2. Life, Freedom, and God 186
3. Physics and Eastern Mysticism 188
4. Conclusions 191
8. ASTRONOMY AND CREATION 195
I. THE BIG BANG 195
1. Theories in Astrophysics 195
2. Theological Responses 198
II. CREATION IN JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY 199
1. Historical Ideas of Creation 199
2. The Interpretation of Genesis Today 202
III. DESIGN, CHANCE, AND NECESSITY 204
1. Design: The Anthropic Principle 204
2. Chance: Many-Worlds Theories 206
3. Necessity: A Theory of Everything 207
IV. THEOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS 209
1. Intelligibility and Contingency 209
2. Ex Nihilo and Continuing Creation 212
3. The Significance of Humanity 214
4. Eschatology and the Future 216
9. EVOLUTION AND CONTINUING CREATION 221
I. EVOLUTIONARY THEORY 221
1. The Modern Synthesis 221
2. Current Debates 223
3. DNA and the Origin of Life 225
4. dna, Information, and Systems Theory 227
II. A HIERARCHY OF LEVELS 230
1. Three Forms of Reduction 230
2. Levels, Emergence, and Wholes 233
3. Sentience and Purposiveness 235
III. THEOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS 237
1. Chance and Design 237
2. Models of Creation 240
3. Conflict, Independence, and Dialogue 243
4. The Integration of Creation and Evolution 245
PART FOUR
PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS
10. HUMAN NATURE 253
I. BIOLOGY AND HUMAN NATURE 253
1. Human Origins 253
CONTENTS / ix
2. Sociobiology and Cultural Evolution 255
3. The Status of Mind 258
IL RELIGION AND HUMAN NATURE 263
1. The Evolution of Religion 263
2. The Biblical View of Human Nature 267
3. The Role of Christ 272
III. THE HUMAN FUTURE 277
1. Science and the Human Future 277
2. Theology and the Human Future 279
11. PROCESS THOUGHT 281
I. SUMMARY: A MULTILEVELED COSMOS 281
1. Medieval and Newtonian Views 281
2. The New View of Nature 283
II. PROCESS PHILOSOPHY 284
1. An Ecological Metaphysics 284
2. Diverse Levels of Experience 287
3. Science and Metaphysics 290
III. PROCESS THEOLOGY 293
1. The Role of God 293
2. God’s Action in the World 295
3. Christian Process Theology 297
4. The Problem of Evil and Suffering 300
12. GOD AND NATURE 305
I. CLASSICAL THEISM 306
1. The Monarchical Model 306
2. Primary and Secondary Causes 309
II. SOME ALTERNATIVES 312
1. God as Determiner of Indeterminacies 312
2. God as Communicator of Information 313
3. God’s Self-Limitation 315
4. God as Agent 318
5. The World as God’s Body 320
III. PROCESS THEISM 322
1. God as Creative Participant 322
2. Problems in Process Theology 325
IV. CONCLUSIONS 329
Notes 333
Glossary 357
Index of Names 361
Index of Selected Topics 367
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