The Warfare between Science & Religion

The Warfare between Science & Religion

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  • Author: Jeff Hardin
  • Publisher: JHU Press
  • ISBN: 1421426196
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 353

A “very welcome volume” of essays questioning the presumption of irreconcilable conflict between science and religion (British Journal for the History of Science). The “conflict thesis”—the idea that an inevitable, irreconcilable conflict exists between science and religion—has long been part of the popular imagination. The Warfare between Science and Religion assembles a group of distinguished historians who explore the origin of the thesis, its reception, the responses it drew from various faith traditions, and its continued prominence in public discourse. Several essays examine the personal circumstances and theological idiosyncrasies of important intellectuals, including John William Draper and Andrew Dickson White, who through their polemical writings championed the conflict thesis relentlessly. Others consider what the thesis meant to different religious communities, including evangelicals, liberal Protestants, Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Finally, essays both historical and sociological explore the place of the conflict thesis in popular culture and intellectual discourse today. Based on original research and written in an accessible style, the essays in The Warfare between Science and Religion take an interdisciplinary approach to question the historical relationship between science and religion, and bring much-needed perspective to an often-bitter controversy. Contributors include: Thomas H. Aechtner, Ronald A. Binzley, John Hedley Brooke, Elaine Howard Ecklund, Noah Efron, John H. Evans, Maurice A. Finocchiaro, Frederick Gregory, Bradley J. Gundlach, Monte Harrell Hampton, Jeff Hardin, Peter Harrison, Bernard Lightman, David N. Livingstone, David Mislin, Efthymios Nicolaidis, Mark A. Noll, Ronald L. Numbers, Lawrence M. Principe, Jon H. Roberts, Christopher P. Scheitle, M. Alper Yalçinkaya


A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom

A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom

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  • Author: Andrew Dickson White
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Religion and science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 452


Science and Religion

Science and Religion

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  • Author: Joshua M. Moritz
  • Publisher: Anselm Academic Christian Brothers Pub.
  • ISBN: 9781599827155
  • Category : Religion and science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

"One of the many virtues of Joshua Moritz's well-structured and wide-ranging introduction to the relation between science and religion is its resourceful use of historical scholarship to illuminate the origins and demonstrate the limitations of an all-pervasive conflict model. Ambitious and controversial in its bid to replace conflict with peace at every opportunity, Science and Religion will be accessible and stimulating for a general audience, as well as constituting what will prove to be a successful student text." --John Hedley Brooke University of Oxford What happens when religious faith meets scientific facts? Many believe that conflict defines the relationship between science and religion, especially the Christian religion. But the war between faith and science is a myth--a very popular myth--that has endured for too long. By investigating the root of this myth and reexamining its classic stories, Science and Religion: Beyond Warfare and Toward Understanding offers a more accurate relationship between science and religion. With a focus on Christianity, the text explores causes of contemporary conflicts and cases in which science and religion have interacted in mutually beneficial ways to demonstrate that, in the relationship between science and religion, harmony is more common than discord. Joshua M. Moritz is a lecturer of philosophical theology and natural science at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and an adjunct professor of philosophy at the University of San Francisco.


War of the Worldviews

War of the Worldviews

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  • Author: Deepak Chopra, M.D.
  • Publisher: Harmony
  • ISBN: 0307886905
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 354

Two bestselling authors first met in a televised Caltech debate on “the future of God,” one an articulate advocate for spirituality, the other a prominent physicist. This remarkable book is the product of that serendipitous encounter and the contentious—but respectful—clash of worldviews that grew along with their friendship. In War of the Worldviews these two great thinkers battle over the cosmos, evolution and life, the human brain, and God, probing the fundamental questions that define the human experience. How did the universe emerge? What is the nature of time? What is life? Did Darwin go wrong? What makes us human? What is the connection between mind and brain? Is God an illusion? This extraordinary book will fascinate millions of readers of science and spirituality alike, as well as anyone who has ever asked themselves, What does it mean that I am alive?


A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom

A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom

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  • Author: Andrew Dickson White
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Religion and science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 938


Worlds Apart

Worlds Apart

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  • Author: Karl Giberson
  • Publisher: Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 228

While affirming that God is Creator of the universe, an evangelical Christian physics and astronomy professor tackles the controversial subject of how God actually did it. Paper.


Science Vs. Religion

Science Vs. Religion

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  • Author: David Turell
  • Publisher: Publish America
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 272

Science vs. Religion shows that the scientific discoveries of the past 150 years prove God exists beyond a reasonable doubt. Our universe is carefully designed to allow life and human development. The universe started with a "Big Bang," the beginning of space and time. There is no 'before' before the Bang, and science does not know what caused it. Darwin's Theory of Evolution appears to do away with God, but there is enormous controversy among Darwin scientists as to how evolution works. Other scientists raise critical objections. Darwinism is not proven. Scientists don't know how life got started, because living matter, even single-celled forms, have been found to be extremely complex. This book proposes, for those who have faith in God and for those who have chosen not to accept God on faith, if they study scientific discoveries they will find overwhelming evidence of the Hand of God.


The Warfare of Science

The Warfare of Science

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  • Author: Andrew Dickson White
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Religion and science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 164


A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom

A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom

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  • Author: Andrew Dickson White
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Religion and science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 452


A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom

A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom

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  • Author: Andrew D. White
  • Publisher: Cosimo Incorporated
  • ISBN: 9781616408923
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 940

The battle between science and religion in American popular life is as old as America itself. By the late 19th century, it had reached a fever pitch, culminating in the two-volume 1896 work A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom. The result of thirty years of research by historian and educator ANDREW DICKSON WHITE (1832-1918), a founder of Cornell University, this is White's attack on intellectually stifling religious dogma and his explication of the "conflict thesis" of outright warfare between science and religion. While scholars today generally see the situation as more nuanced, the conflict thesis remains a popular metaphor in the mind of the general public, and White's work continues to speak to us today. H.L. Mencken called this "one of the noblest monuments of American scholarship," and it will fascinate anyone who is troubled by the ongoing influence by religious authorities into secular science.