Has Science Killed God?
The Faraday Papers on Science and Religion
Published on 15. April 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-281-08134-9 (ISBN)
Description
World-leading experts tackle challenging issues of science and faith.
Here are 20 papers from the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, which is a UK educational charity, and a member of the Cambridge Theological Federation which is an affiliate of Cambridge University. In addition to academic research, the Institute engages in the public understanding of science and religion by means of courses, conferences, lectures, seminars and the media.
The Faraday Papers provide the general reader with accessible and readable introductions to the relationship between science and religion, written by a broad range of authors who are expert in the field. They are intended to be read by those without a scientific background. Here they are collected for the first time into a single volume.
Contributors include:
Has Science Killed God? - Prof. Alister McGrath FRSA
The Science and Religion Debate, an Introduction - Revd Dr John Polkinghorne KBE FRS
Why Care for the Environment? - Prof. Sir John Houghton FRS
Ethical Issues in Genetic Modification - Prof. John Bryant
The Age of the Earth - Prof. Bob White FRS
Creation and Evolution not Creation or Evolution - Prof. R.J. Berry FRSE
Here are 20 papers from the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, which is a UK educational charity, and a member of the Cambridge Theological Federation which is an affiliate of Cambridge University. In addition to academic research, the Institute engages in the public understanding of science and religion by means of courses, conferences, lectures, seminars and the media.
The Faraday Papers provide the general reader with accessible and readable introductions to the relationship between science and religion, written by a broad range of authors who are expert in the field. They are intended to be read by those without a scientific background. Here they are collected for the first time into a single volume.
Contributors include:
Has Science Killed God? - Prof. Alister McGrath FRSA
The Science and Religion Debate, an Introduction - Revd Dr John Polkinghorne KBE FRS
Why Care for the Environment? - Prof. Sir John Houghton FRS
Ethical Issues in Genetic Modification - Prof. John Bryant
The Age of the Earth - Prof. Bob White FRS
Creation and Evolution not Creation or Evolution - Prof. R.J. Berry FRSE
Reviews / Votes
This excellent collection of Faraday Papers reflects the way that thinking has progressed over the past decade and fulfilled some of the aspirations of the Faraday Institute for which it was set up. * Sir Brian Heap, FRS, University of Cambridge * This volume is invaluable for anyone wishing to understand current science and faith debates. Its outstanding feature is its comprehensiveness. It gives historical and philosophical perspective as well as spelling out the wider implications of advances in evolutionary biology, quantum physics, neuroscience, genetics, and geology for Christian faith. I strongly recommend it. * Emeritus Professor Malcolm Jeeves, CBE, F. Med.Sci., FRSE, PPRSE, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, St. Andrews University * I envy the British for their rich resources in profound scholarship at the interface of science and the Christian faith. This book is a testimony to that. Look no further if you are searching for an accessible introduction to a broad spectrum of interesting subjects in this area, from philosophical ponderings about the nature of science, to Bible interpretation, to creation care, to the intriguing questions posed by neuroscience and genetics. Highly recommended! * Professor Cees Dekker, KNAW Royal Academy Professor and Distinguished University Professor at Delft University of Technology *More details
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United Kingdom
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Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
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Denis Alexander is the Emeritus Director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, originally founded at St Edmund's College, Cambridge, where he is a Fellow.
Dr Alexander was previously Chairman of the Molecular Immunology Programme and Head of the Laboratory of Lymphocyte Signalling and Development at The Babraham Institute, Cambridge. Prior to that he was at the Imperial Cancer Research Laboratories in London (now Cancer Research UK), and spent 15 years developing university departments and laboratories overseas, latterly as Associate Professor of Biochemistry in the Medical Faculty of the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. There he helped to establish the National Unit of Human Genetics.
He was initially an Open Scholar at Oxford reading Biochemistry, before obtaining a PhD in Neurochemistry at the Institute of Psychiatry in London.
Dr Alexander writes, lectures and broadcasts widely in the field of science and religion. From 1992 to 2013 he was Editor of the journal Science & Christian Belief, and currently serves as a member of the executive committee of the International Society for Science and Religion. His Creation or Evolution: do we have to choose? proved particularly popular. He gave the Gifford Lectures at St Andrews University in 2012 and these were published by CUP in 2017 under the title Genes, Determinism and God. In April 2018 Monarch published his Is There Purpose in Biology?
Dr Alexander was previously Chairman of the Molecular Immunology Programme and Head of the Laboratory of Lymphocyte Signalling and Development at The Babraham Institute, Cambridge. Prior to that he was at the Imperial Cancer Research Laboratories in London (now Cancer Research UK), and spent 15 years developing university departments and laboratories overseas, latterly as Associate Professor of Biochemistry in the Medical Faculty of the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. There he helped to establish the National Unit of Human Genetics.
He was initially an Open Scholar at Oxford reading Biochemistry, before obtaining a PhD in Neurochemistry at the Institute of Psychiatry in London.
Dr Alexander writes, lectures and broadcasts widely in the field of science and religion. From 1992 to 2013 he was Editor of the journal Science & Christian Belief, and currently serves as a member of the executive committee of the International Society for Science and Religion. His Creation or Evolution: do we have to choose? proved particularly popular. He gave the Gifford Lectures at St Andrews University in 2012 and these were published by CUP in 2017 under the title Genes, Determinism and God. In April 2018 Monarch published his Is There Purpose in Biology?
Content
Part 1
THE SCIENCE AND FAITH DEBATE
1 The science and religion debate: an introduction
John Polkinghorne
2 Does science need religion?
Roger Trigg
3 Models for relating science and religion
Denis R. Alexander
Part 2
SCIENCE, FAITH AND HISTORY
4 Science and faith in the life of Michael Faraday
Colin Russell
5 The Galileo affair
Ernan McMullin
Part 3
SCIENCE, FAITH AND THEOLOGY
6 Interpreting Genesis in the twenty-first century
Ernest Lucas
7 Creation and evolution - not creation or evolution
R. J. Berry
8 Natural theology
Rodney D. Holder
9 The anthropic principle and the science and
religion debate
John Polkinghorne
10 Miracles and science
Denis R. Alexander
Part 4
SCIENCE, FAITH AND PHILOSOPHY
11 Reductionism: help or hindrance in science and religion? 131
Michael Poole
12 Has science killed God?
Alister McGrath
13 Is the universe designed?
Rodney D. Holder
14 Science, religion and truth
John Taylor
SCIENCE, FAITH AND HUMANITY
15 Nothing but a pack of neurons?
Stuart J. Judge
16 The Libet experiment and its implications for
conscious will
Peter G. H. Clarke
17 Human genomics and the image of God
Graeme Finlay
SCIENCE, FAITH AND THE WORLD
18 The age of the Earth
Robert S. White
19 Why care for the environment?
John Houghton
20 Ethical issues in genetic modification
John Bryant
THE SCIENCE AND FAITH DEBATE
1 The science and religion debate: an introduction
John Polkinghorne
2 Does science need religion?
Roger Trigg
3 Models for relating science and religion
Denis R. Alexander
Part 2
SCIENCE, FAITH AND HISTORY
4 Science and faith in the life of Michael Faraday
Colin Russell
5 The Galileo affair
Ernan McMullin
Part 3
SCIENCE, FAITH AND THEOLOGY
6 Interpreting Genesis in the twenty-first century
Ernest Lucas
7 Creation and evolution - not creation or evolution
R. J. Berry
8 Natural theology
Rodney D. Holder
9 The anthropic principle and the science and
religion debate
John Polkinghorne
10 Miracles and science
Denis R. Alexander
Part 4
SCIENCE, FAITH AND PHILOSOPHY
11 Reductionism: help or hindrance in science and religion? 131
Michael Poole
12 Has science killed God?
Alister McGrath
13 Is the universe designed?
Rodney D. Holder
14 Science, religion and truth
John Taylor
SCIENCE, FAITH AND HUMANITY
15 Nothing but a pack of neurons?
Stuart J. Judge
16 The Libet experiment and its implications for
conscious will
Peter G. H. Clarke
17 Human genomics and the image of God
Graeme Finlay
SCIENCE, FAITH AND THE WORLD
18 The age of the Earth
Robert S. White
19 Why care for the environment?
John Houghton
20 Ethical issues in genetic modification
John Bryant