Science and religion : understanding the issues /
From the heliocentric controversy and evolution, to debates on biotechnology and the environment, this book offers a balanced introduction to the key issues in science and religion.:.; A balanced, introductory textbook which fully spans the interface between science and religion, and includes illust...
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Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Introduction
- Systems of Thought. Learning from the Past
- How We Know What We Know
- Common Threads and Ultimate Truths
- Cosmology. Scientific Explanations of the Cosmos
- Creation Myths
- Current Understandings of the Universe
- Eschatology
- Evolution. Darwin Changes Everything
- Scientific Explanations of the Origin of Life
- Evidence for Evolution
- Evolution and Design
- Human Evolution
- Ethics in an Age of Science. What It Means to be Human
- Modern-Day Marvels: Biotechnology and Medicine
- Stewardship and the Environment
- Further Reading
- Source Acknowledgments
- Index.
- Learning from the past
- How we know what we know
- Common threads and ultimate truths
- Scientific explanations of the cosmos
- Creation myths
- Current understandings of the universe
- Eschatology
- Darwin changes everything
- Scientific explanations of the origin of life
- Evidence for evolution
- Evolution and design
- Human evolution
- What it means to be human
- Modern day marvels : medicine and biotechnology
- Stewardship and the environment.