Science and religion : are they compatible?

Science and religion : are they compatible?

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Kurtz, Paul, 1925-2012 (ed.), Karr, Barry (ed.), Sandhu, Ranjit (ed.)
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Amherst, New York : Prometheus Books, © 2003
Materias:
RELIGION Y CIENCIA
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introductory.
  • An overview of the issues.
  • / Paul Kurtz.
  • Are science and religion conflicting or complementary? : some thoughts about boundaries
  • / Kendrick Frazier.
  • I. Cosmology and God.
  • A designer universe?
  • / Steven Weinberg.
  • Anthropic design : does the cosmos show evidence of purpose?
  • / Victor J. Stenger.
  • From the anthropic principle to the supernatural
  • / David A. Shotwell.
  • "God's goof," and the universe that knew we were coming
  • / Owen Gingerich.
  • Big-bang cosmology and atheism : why the big bang is no help to theists
  • / Quentin Smith.
  • Holy wars : an astrophysicist ponders the God question
  • / Neil deGrasse Tyson.
  • II. Intelligent design : creationism versus science.
  • Creationism versus evolution
  • / Kendrick Frazier.
  • Skepticism's prospects for unseating intelligent design
  • / William A. Dembski.
  • Design yes, intelligent no : a critique of intelligent-design theory and neocreationism
  • / Massimo Pigliucci.
  • The 'science and religion movement' : an opportunity for improved public understanding of science?
  • / Eugenie C. Scott.
  • A world designed by God : science and creationism in contemporary Islam
  • / Taner Edis.
  • III. Religion and science in conflict.
  • Science and religion in historical perspective
  • / Vern L. Bullough.
  • The Galileo affair
  • / Timothy Moy.
  • Uniting the world
  • or dividing it : which outlook is truly universal, which parochial in the extreme?
  • / Sir Hermann Bondi.
  • Why getting it right matters : how science prevails
  • / Daniel C. Dennett.
  • The dangerous quest for cooperation between science and religion
  • / Jacob Pandian.
  • Science versus religion : a conversation with my students
  • / Barry A. Palevitz.
  • Credo
  • / Arthur C. Clarke.
  • IV. Science and ethics : two magisteria. Nonoverlapping magisteria
  • / Stephen Jay Gould.
  • You can't have it both ways : irreconcilable differences?
  • / Richard Dawkins.
  • Where the two worlds tangle : there is a conflict in metaphysics
  • but not in ethics
  • / Richard Feynman.
  • V. The scientific investigation of paranatural claims.
  • Examining claims of the "paranatural" : life after death
  • / Paul Kurtz.
  • After-death communication studies
  • / Richard Wiseman and Cirán O'Keefe.
  • Near-death experiences
  • / Antony Flew.
  • Does the soul exist : from the mythological soul to the conscious brain
  • / Jerome W. Elbert.
  • Efficacy of prayer
  • / Irwin Tessman and Jack Tessman.
  • Science versus shroud science
  • / Joe Nickell.
  • VI. Scientific explanations of religion.
  • Why do people believe or disbelieve?
  • / Paul Kurtz.
  • Supernatural power and cultural evolution
  • / Anthony Layng.
  • The biological roots of religion
  • / Morton Hunt.
  • Whence religious belief?
  • / Steven Pinker.
  • Searching for God in the machine
  • / David C. Noelle.
  • VII. Accommodating science and religion.
  • Science and the unknowable
  • / Martin Gardner.
  • A way of life for agnostics
  • / James Lovelock.
  • Celebrating creation
  • / Chet Raymo.
  • Science and religion in an impersonal universe
  • / Matt Young.
  • Afterthoughts
  • / Paul Kurtz.

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