By Edward J. Larson,Michael Ruse
all through historical past, medical discovery has clashed with non secular dogma, growing clash, controversy, and occasionally violent dispute. during this enlightening and available quantity, exotic historian and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Edward Larson and Michael Ruse, thinker of technology and Gifford Lecturer, supply their special viewpoints at the occasionally contentious dating among technology and faith. The authors discover how scientists, philosophers, and theologians via time and at the present time technique very important themes, together with cosmology, geology, evolution, genetics, neurobiology, gender, and the surroundings. Broaching their matters from either historic and philosophical views, Larson and Ruse stay away from rancor and polemic as they tackle a number of the center matters at the moment below debate through the adherents of technological know-how and the advocates of religion, laying off gentle at the richly different box of rules on the crossroads the place technology meets religious belief.
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