Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface: faith and science / Joseph L. Spradley -- 1. Common ground between faith and science?: -- "And yet, it moves": the conflict between faith and science / Paul McCaffrey -- Religion and science / Albert Einstein -- Science at the crossroads / Tenzin Gyatso, the Dalai Lama -- White lies of Dover / Eugene W. Harper -- God vs. science / Dean Nelson -- Einstein's religious awakening / William Berkson -- 2. Is your brain hardwired for religion?: -- "It's just all one": neurotheology, religion, and the brain / Paul McCaffrey -- The biology of belief / Jeffrey Kluger -- Divided minds, specious souls / David Weisman -- How I learned to stop worrying and love the brain / David A. Hogue -- Does analytic thinking erode religious belief? / Andrew Aghapour -- Science and religion: reality's toolkit / Jessica Hahne -- Neurononsense / Roger Scruton -- 3. The politics of religion and science: -- The bible, the beaker, and the ballot box: faith, science, and American politics / Paul McCaffrey -- Unholy alliance / Jonathan Cohn -- New poll: even religious voters overwhelmingly want candidates to debate science / Shawn Lawrence Otto -- How science can lead the way / Lisa Randall -- A day in heaven / Joe Murphy -- Some Ojibwe tribal members object to wolf hunting, trapping / Tom Robertson -- 4. Evolution and public education: -- Evolution in the classroom: from monkey laws to intelligent design / Paul McCaffrey -- A spiritual approach to evolution / Michael Lerner -- Intelligent design or intelligible design? / Frederick Grinnell -- Religion doesn't belong in public schools, but debate over Darwinian evolution does / Casey Luskin -- Evolution still debated on religious grounds in the public domain / Susan Barreto -- The light of the world / Michael Reiss -- Faith and the cosmos / Ila Delio -- 5. The greening of faith: -- Silent spring: faith and the environment / Paul McCaffrey -- Environment and the new humanism / Edward O. Wilson -- Environmentalism as religion / Joel Garreau -- The emerging alliance of world religions and ecology / John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker -- Stewards of the earth / Jim E. Motavalli -- Making the climate a part of the human world / Simon D. Donner -- 6. Creation, the cosmos, and the origin of the universe: -- The origins of the universe: faith and the big bang / Paul McCaffrey -- The testimony of faith to the ultimate origin / Hans K�ung -- Science on faith / Elaine Howard Ecklund -- Let's get a big bang out of science / Richard Malloy -- Physics of the divine / Zeeya Merali -- A god of creativity / Stuart Kauffman.