RT Book
T1 Science and spirituality: making room for faith in the age of science
A1 Ruse, Michael 1940-
LA English
PP Cambridge
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2010
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/883477521
AB Michael Ruse offers a new analysis of the often troubled relationship between science and religion. Arguing against both extremes - in one corner, the New Atheists; in the other, the Creationists and their offspring the Intelligent Designers - he asserts that science is the highest source of human inquiry. Yet, by its very nature and its deep reliance on metaphor, science restricts itself and is unable to answer basic, significant questions about the meaning of the universe and humankind's place within it: why is there something rather than nothing? What is the meaning of it all? Ruse shows that one can legitimately be a skeptic about these questions, and yet why it is open for a Christian, or member of any faith, to offer answers. Scientists, he concludes, should be proud of their achievements but modest about their scope. Christians should be confident of their mission but respectful of the successes of science.
AB Introduction -- The world as an organism -- The world as a machine -- Organisms as machines -- Thinking machines -- Unasked questions, unsolved problems -- Organicism -- God -- Morality, souls, eternity, mystery
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
CN BL240.3
SN 9780511676338
K1 Religion and science
DO 10.1017/CBO9780511676338