Science and Spirituality Making Room for Faith in the Age of Science 1st Edition by Michael Ruse ISBN 0521755948 9780521755948

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ISBN 10: 0521755948

ISBN 13: 9780521755948 

Author: Michael Ruse

Michael Ruse offers a new analysis of the often troubled relationship between science and religion. Arguing against both extremes – in one corner, the New Atheists; in the other, the Creationists and their offspring the Intelligent Designers – he asserts that science is the highest source of human inquiry. Yet, by its very nature and its deep reliance on metaphor, science restricts itself and is unable to answer basic, significant questions about the meaning of the universe and humankind’s place within it: why is there something rather than nothing? What is the meaning of it all? Ruse shows that one can legitimately be a skeptic about these questions, and yet why it is open for a Christian, or member of any faith, to offer answers. Scientists, he concludes, should be proud of their achievements but modest about their scope. Christians should be confident of their mission but respectful of the successes of science.

• A major analysis of the science-religion relationship, now available in paperback, based on the deeply metaphorical nature of science, showing that for all its success, science is necessarily limited in its scope and that hence there can be full place for Christian beliefs and practices
• Incredibly timely, given on the one hand the great success and publicity of the so-called New Atheists (prominently Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion) and on the other hand the strong support (particularly in the USA) of various fundamentalist movements, most recently so-called Intelligent Design Theorists
• Michael Ruse is a very well-known figure who has been at the forefront of the science-religion debate for over 30 years

Table of contents:

1. The world as an organism
2. The world as a machine
3. Organisms as machines
4. Thinking machines
5. Unasked questions, unsolved problems
6. Organicism
7. God
8. Morality, souls, eternity, mystery

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