Science and the spiritual quest : new essays by leading scientists / [edited by] W. Mark Richardson ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.Description: xi, 264 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0415257662
  • 0415257670 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BL 240.3 .S35 2002
Contents:
Science, spirituality and religion: an exploration of bridges and gaps / Jocelyn Bell Burnell -- Must not the judge of all the earth do justice? God's nature and the existence of genetic diseases in man / Kenneth S. Kendler -- Theology for nerds / Kevin Kelly -- Science and religion: separate closets in the same house / Allan Sandage -- Does science offer evidence of a purpose and a transcendent reality? / Cyril Domb -- What price reductionism? / Martinez J. Hewlett -- Scientific reduction: adversary or ally? / Robert B. Griffiths -- Computer science, the informational, and Jewish mysticism / Mitchell P. Marcus -- The Islamic worldview and modern cosmology / Bruno Guideroni -- Darwinism and Atheism: a marriage made in heaven? / Michael Ruse -- An historical reality that includes big bang, free will, and elementary particles / Geoffrey F. Chew -- The horrors of humanity and the computation of the self / Michael A. Arbib -- The universe, life, and consciousness / Andrei Linde -- God, approximately / Brian Cantwell Smith -- The challenges and possibilities for western Monotheism / Arthur Peacocke -- One quest, one knowledge / George Sudarshan -- Some concluding reflections / Philip Clayton.
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Book Storms Research Center Main Collection BL 240.3 .S35 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 98624615
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Science, spirituality and religion: an exploration of bridges and gaps / Jocelyn Bell Burnell -- Must not the judge of all the earth do justice? God's nature and the existence of genetic diseases in man / Kenneth S. Kendler -- Theology for nerds / Kevin Kelly -- Science and religion: separate closets in the same house / Allan Sandage -- Does science offer evidence of a purpose and a transcendent reality? / Cyril Domb -- What price reductionism? / Martinez J. Hewlett -- Scientific reduction: adversary or ally? / Robert B. Griffiths -- Computer science, the informational, and Jewish mysticism / Mitchell P. Marcus -- The Islamic worldview and modern cosmology / Bruno Guideroni -- Darwinism and Atheism: a marriage made in heaven? / Michael Ruse -- An historical reality that includes big bang, free will, and elementary particles / Geoffrey F. Chew -- The horrors of humanity and the computation of the self / Michael A. Arbib -- The universe, life, and consciousness / Andrei Linde -- God, approximately / Brian Cantwell Smith -- The challenges and possibilities for western Monotheism / Arthur Peacocke -- One quest, one knowledge / George Sudarshan -- Some concluding reflections / Philip Clayton.

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