The war of the Jesus and Darwin fishes : religion and science in the postmodern world / John C. Caiazza.
- Caiazza, John.
- Date:
- [2007], ©2007
- Books
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New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, [2007], ©2007.
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x, 178 pages ; 24 cm
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Contents
Introduction: The war of the Jesus and Darwin fishes -- Religion and science in the postmodern world -- The postmodern world -- Sources of the on-going conflict -- Shifting grounds of the "war" between religion and science -- The fog of war -- The reductive temptation -- Kuhn's new history of science -- Galileo's enduring career -- Why the physicists speak of God -- The dissolving gene -- How evolution came from outer space -- Evolutionary psychology and the inevitability of religious belief -- The agony of J. Robert Oppenheimer -- Scientific technology is the return of magic -- The dynamic relation between religion and science -- Comparative religion and scientific law -- The dynamic relationship of religion and science in the postmodern world -- Conclusion: A vision of tolerable order.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-171) and index.
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- 9780765803801
- 0765803801