Science and Religion A New Introduction.

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Main Author: McGrath, Alister E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2009
Series:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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500 |a Chapter 19: Cosmology: Does the Anthropic Principle Mean Anything? 
505 0 |a Intro -- Contents -- Title -- Copyright -- Preface -- How To Use This Book -- Chapter 1: Introducing the Dialogue Between Science and Religion -- For Further Reading -- PART I: History: Three Landmark Debates -- Chapter 2: Why Study History? -- The Historical Origins of the "Warfare" Model of Science and Religion -- There Is No "Master Narrative" for Science and Religion -- The Essentialist Fallacy About Science and Religion -- Dispelling Myths About Science and Religion -- The Importance of Biblical Interpretation -- For Further Reading 
505 8 |a Chapter 3: Debate 1: Copernicus, Galileo, and the Solar System -- For Further Reading -- Chapter 4: Debate 2: Newton, the Mechanical Universe, and Deism -- For Further Reading -- Chapter 5: Debate 3: Darwin and the Biological Origins of Humanity -- For Further Reading -- PART II: Science and Religion: General Themes -- Chapter 6: Models of Interaction Between Science and Religion -- Conflict -- Independence -- Dialogue -- Integration -- For Further Reading -- Chapter 7: Science, Religion, and the Explanation of Things -- For Further Reading 
505 8 |a Chapter 8: Science, Religion, and Proofs for God's Existence -- The Cosmological Argument -- The Kalam Argument -- The Teleological Argument -- For Further Reading -- Chapter 9: Verification and Falsification in Science and Religion -- The Verification Principle -- Falsification: Karl Popper -- For Further Reading -- Chapter 10: Realism and its Alternatives in Science and Religion -- Realism -- Idealism -- Instrumentalism -- Theology and Realism -- For Further Reading -- Chapter 11: The Doctrine of Creation and the Natural Sciences -- Three Views of God's Creative Activity 
505 8 |a Creation and the Laws of Nature -- For Further Reading -- Chapter 12: How Does God Act in the World? -- Deism: God Acts Through the Laws of Nature -- Thomas Aquinas: God Acts Through Secondary Causes -- Process Theology: God Acts Through Persuasion -- Other Approaches: Indeterminacy, Downward Causation, and Information -- For Further Reading -- Chapter 13: The Use of Models in Science and Religion -- For Further Reading -- Chapter 14: Natural Science and Natural Theology -- The Appeal to Reason -- The Appeal to the Ordering of the World -- The Appeal to the Beauty of Nature 
505 8 |a Objections to Natural Theology -- Philosophical Objections -- For Further Reading -- Chapter 15: Theoretical Anomalies in Science and Religion -- For Further Reading -- Chapter 16: The Development of Theory in Science and Religion -- For Further Reading -- Chapter 17: The Interaction of Science and Religion in Other Faiths -- Judaism -- Islam -- Hinduism -- Buddhism -- For Further Reading -- PART III: Science and Religion: Contemporary Debates -- Chapter 18: Richard Dawkins and Scientific Atheism: Does Science Deny God? -- For Further Reading 
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