Science and religion : a historical introduction / edited by Gary B. Ferngren.

Date:
2002
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Publication/Creation

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.

Physical description

xiv, 401 pages ; 24 cm

Contributors

Contents

Conflict of science and religion / Colin A. Russell -- Historiography of science and religion / David B. Wilson -- Aristotle and Aristotelianism / Edward Grant -- Early Christian attitudes toward nature / David C. Lindberg -- Medieval science and religion / David C. Lindberg -- Islam / Alnoor Dhanani -- Copernican revolution / Owen Gingerich -- Galileo Galilei / Richard J. Blackwell -- Early modern Protestantism / Edward B. Davis and Michael P. Winship -- Causation / John Henry -- Mechanical philosophy / Margaret J. Osler -- Isaac Newton / Richard S. Westfall -- Natural theology / John Hedley Brooke -- Geology and paleontology / Nicolaas A. Rupke -- Natural history / Peter M. Hess -- Charles Darwin / James Moore -- Evolution / Peter J. Bowler -- Cosmogonies / Ronald L. Numbers -- Roman Catholicism since Trent / Steven J. Harris -- Evangelicalism and fundamentalism / Mark A. Noll -- Creationism since 1859 / Ronald L. Numbers -- Scopes trial / Edward J. Larson -- Physics / Richard Olson -- Twentieth-century cosmologies / Craig Sean McConnell -- Scientific naturalism / Edward B. Davis and Robin Collins -- Design argument / William A. Dembski -- Ecology and the environment / David N. Livingstone -- Gender / Sara Miles and John Henry -- Social construct of science / Stephen P. Weldon -- Postmodernism / Stephen P. Weldon.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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  • 0801870380