Religion and the Challenges of Science by William Sweet,Richard Feist

By William Sweet,Richard Feist

Does technological know-how pose a problem to faith and non secular trust? this query has been a question of long-standing debate - and it maintains to trouble not just students in philosophy, theology, and the sciences, but additionally these serious about public academic coverage. This quantity presents history to the present 'science and faith' debate, but focuses besides on topics the place contemporary dialogue of the relation among technological know-how and faith has been quite concentrated.

The first subject offers with the heritage of the interrelation of technology and faith. the second one and 3rd subject matters take care of the consequences of modern paintings in cosmology, biology and so-called clever layout for faith and spiritual trust. The fourth subject matter is anxious with 'conceptual concerns' underlying, or implied, within the present debates, similar to: Are medical naturalism and faith suitable? Are technological know-how and faith our bodies of information or practices or either? Do faith and technological know-how provide conflicting fact claims?

By illuminating modern dialogue within the science-religion debate and through outlining the choices on hand in describing the relation among the 2, this quantity might be of curiosity to students and to contributors of the expert public alike.

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