This volume situates itself within the context of the rapidly growing interdisciplinary field that is dedicated to the study of the complex interactions between science and religion.
From the heliocentric controversy and evolution, to debates on biotechnology and the environment, this book offers a balanced introduction to the key issues in science and religion.
... the limits of decidability in mathematics , and , most likely , the limitations of an algorithmic theory of the ... truth depends on historical conditions and cultural contexts , and that metaphysical ideas are more fundamental than ...
Written by distinguished historians of science and religion, the thirty essays in this volume survey the relationship of Western religious traditions to science from the beginning of the Christian era...
... science at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Recent publications include Moving Heaven and Earth: Copernicus and the Solar System (Cambridge: Icon Books, 2001) and The Scientific Revolution and the Origins of Modern Science, 2d ed ...
Wide-ranging and authoritative, this new book on one of the fundamental questions of Western thought will be of great interest to students and scholars of the history of science and of religion as well as to general readers who are ...