Science and Religion in Dialogue (Repost)

This two-volume collection of cutting edge thinking about science and religion shows how scientific and religious practices of inquiry can be viewed as logically compatible, complementary, and mutually supportive. Features submissions by world-leading scientists and philosophers Discusses a wide range of hotly debated issues, including Big Bang cosmology, evolution, intelligent design, dinosaurs and creation, general and special theories of relativity, dark energy, the Multiverse Hypothesis, and Super String Theory Includes articles on stem cell research and Bioethics by William Hurlbut, who served on President Bush's Bioethics Committee  Content: Chapter 1 The Nature of Science (pages 39–53): Del RatzschChapter 2 The Religious Roots of Science (pages 54–68): Del RatzschChapter 3 The Alleged Demise of Religion: Greatly Exaggerated Reports from the Science/Religion “Wars” (pages 69–84): Del RatzschChapter 4 Relativity, God, and Time (pages 85–92): Dr. Thomas GreenleeChapter 5 General Relativity, The Cosmic Microwave Background, and Moral Relativism (pages 93–96): Dr. Thomas GreenleeChapter 6 Quantum Mechanics and the Nature of Reality (pages 97–104): Dr. Thomas GreenleeChapter 7 Science and Religion in Harmony (pages 105–119): Deborah B. HaarsmaChapter 8 How Christians Reconcile Ancient Texts with Modern Science (pages 120–130): Deborah B. HaarsmaChapter 9 Christian and Atheist Responses to Big Bang Cosmology (pages 131–149): Deborah B. HaarsmaChapter 10 Scientific Knowledge Does Not Replace Religious Knowledge (pages 151–167): Loren HaarsmaChapter 11 God, Evolution, and Design (pages 168–180): Loren HaarsmaChapter 12 Human Evolution and Objective Morality (pages 181–201): Loren HaarsmaChapter 13 What Makes a Scientific Theory Probably True (pages 203–212): Richard SwinburneChapter 14 The Argument to God from the Laws of Nature (pages 213–222): Richard SwinburneChapter 15 The Argument to God from Fine?Tuning (pages 223–233): Richard SwinburneChapter 16 Is Intelligent Design Really Intelligent? (pages 235–242): Peter DodsonChapter 17 God and the Dinosaurs Revisited (pages 243–250): Peter DodsonChapter 18 Science and Religion in the Public Square (pages 251–264): Peter DodsonChapter 19 Evolutionary Creation: Common Descent and Christian Views of Origins (pages 265–277): Stephen MathesonChapter 20 A Scientific and Religious Critique of Intelligent Design (pages 278–289): Stephen MathesonChapter 21 Biology, the Incarnation, and Christian Materialism (pages 290–298): Stephen MathesonChapter 22 Science and Religion: Why Does the Debate Continue? (pages 299–316): Alvin PlantingaChapter 23 Divine Action in the World (pages 317–323): Alvin PlantingaChapter 24 The Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism (pages 324–332): Alvin PlantingaChapter 25 Two For the Ages: Origen and Newton (pages 335–344): Gary PattersonChapter 26 The Holy Trinity of Nineteenth?Century British Science: Faraday, Maxwell, and Rayleigh (pages 345–358): Gary PattersonChapter 27 A Professor in Dialogue with His Faith (pages 359–368): Gary PattersonChapter 28 Our Place in the Vast Universe (pages 369–379): Don N. PageChapter 29 Does God So Love the Multiverse? (pages 380–395): Don N. PageChapter 30 Scientific and Philosophical Challenges to Theism (pages 396–410): Don N. PageChapter 31 The Copenhagen Spirit of Science and Birth of the Nuclear Atom (pages 411–419): Richard PetersonChapter 32 When Scientists Go to War (pages 420–428): Richard PetersonChapter 33 Scientific Responsibility: A Quest for Good Science and Good Applications (pages 429–435): Richard PetersonChapter 34 The Evolution of Religion: Adaptationist Accounts (pages 437–457): Michael J. MurrayChapter 35 The Evolution of Religion: Non?Adaptationist Accounts (pages 458–471): Michael J. MurrayChapter 36 Evolutionary Accounts of Religion: Explaining or Explaining Away (pages 472–478): Michael J. MurrayChapter 37 How Real People Believe: Reason and Belief in God (pages 479–499): Kelly James ClarkChapter 38 Reformed Epistemology and the Cognitive Science of Religion (pages 500–513): Kelly James ClarkChapter 39 Explaining God Away? (pages 514–526): Kelly James ClarkChapter 39a Introduction to Volume Two (pages 527–602): Melville Y. StewartChapter 40 Reflections on the Scientific Revolution (1543–1687) (pages 603–617): Owen GingerichChapter 41 Designing a Universe Congenial for Life (pages 618–627): Owen GingerichChapter 42 Earth's Biospheric Economy (pages 629–644): Calvin DewittChapter 43 The Steward and the Economist (pages 645–657): Calvin DewittChapter 44 Sustainable Living in the Biosphere (pages 658–670): Calvin DewittChapter 45 God, Time, and Infinity (pages 671–682): William Lane CraigChapter 46 Time and Eternity (pages 683–702): William Lane CraigChapter 47 The End of the World (pages 703–719): William Lane CraigChapter 48 Theology and Science in a Postmodern Context (pages 721–731): Nancey MurphyChapter 49 Science and Divine Action (pages 732–739): Nancey MurphyChapter 50 Theology, Science and Human Nature (pages 740–747): Nancey MurphyChapter 51 Darwin and Intelligent Design (pages 749–766): Dr Francisco J. AyalaChapter 52 The Nature of the Laws of Physics and Their Mysterious Bio?Friendliness (pages 767–788): Paul DaviesChapter 53 The A?Theory of Time, Presentism, and Open Theism (pages 789–809): Dean ZimmermanChapter 54 A Kind of Darwinism (pages 811–824): Peter van InwagenChapter 55 Darwinism and Design (pages 825–834): Peter van InwagenChapter 56 Science and Scripture (pages 835–846): Peter van InwagenChapter 57 Science and Religion in Western History: Models and Relationships (pages 847–861): Alan PadgettChapter 58 Overcoming the Problem of Induction: Science and Religion as Ways of Knowing (pages 862–883): Alan PadgettChapter 59 God and Time: Relative Timelessness Reconsidered (pages 884–892): Alan PadgettChapter 60 The Laws of Physics and the Design of the Universe (pages 893–910): Stephen M. BarrChapter 61 The Multiverse and the State of Fundamental Physics Today (pages 911–927): Stephen M. BarrChapter 62 Philosophical Materialism and the Many?Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (pages 928–942): Stephen M. BarrChapter 63 Embodied Being: Evolution and the Emergence of the Human Person (pages 943–959): William HurlbutChapter 64 Embryos, Ethics, and Human Dignity (pages 960–973): William HurlbutChapter 65 Biotechnology and the Human Future (pages 974–983): William HurlbutChapter 66 Freedom, Consciousness, and Science: An Emergentist Response to the Challenge (pages 985–998): Philip ClaytonChapter 67 Mediating Between Physicalism and Dualism: “Broad Naturalism” and the Study of Consciousness (pages 999–1010): Philip ClaytonChapter 68 Scientific Realism (pages 1011–1033): Bruce ReichenbachChapter 69 Religious Realism (pages 1034–1052): Bruce ReichenbachChapter 70 Experience and the Unobservable (pages 1053–1077): Bruce Reichenbach