Science and spirituality: making room for faith in the age of science
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 i...
| Autres titres: | Science & Spirituality |
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| Type de support: | Électronique Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
| Service de livraison Subito: | Commander maintenant. |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2010.
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| Dans: | Année: 2010 |
| Recensions: | Michael Ruse, Science and spirituality: making room for faith in the age of science (2011) (Schoen, Edward L.)
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| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Sciences de la nature
/ Image du monde
/ Religion
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| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Religion and science
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Table des matières Quatrième de couverture Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Édition parallèle: | Non-électronique
Print version: 9780521755948 |
| Résumé: | 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. 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 |
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| Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) |
| ISBN: | 0511676336 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511676338 |