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Title:
The big question : why we can't stop talking about science, faith, and God
Format:
Books
Publication Date(s):
2015
ISBN:
9781250077929
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
St Martins Pr 2015.
Physical Description:
264 pages ; 25 cm.
Contents:
From wonder to understanding: beginning a journey -- Stories, pictures, and maps: making sense of things -- Theory, evidence, and proof: how do we know what is true? -- Inventing the universe: our strange world -- Darwin and evolution: new questions for science and faith -- Souls: on being human -- The quest for meaning and the limits of science -- An empirical ethics, science, and morality -- Science and faith: making sense of the world, making sense of life.
Summary:
Examines the relationship between science and faith and how the methods and assumptions of the sciences can be adapted to religious belief, arguing for a compatability between the two in opposition to more dogmatic new atheistic thought.
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