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When we consider what religion is for mankind and
what science is, it is no exaggeration to say that the future course of
history depends upon the decision of this generation as to the relations
between them.
Alfred North Whitehead, 1926 |
| Though these bodies may indeed continue in their
orbits by the mere laws of gravity, yet they could by no means have at
first derived the regular position of the orbits themselves from those
laws. Thus, this most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets,
could only proceed from the council and dominion of an intelligent and
powerful Being.
General Scholium to the Principia |
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Psalm 19:1-4
The heavens declare the glory of God;
The skies proclaim the work of his hands.
Day after day they pour forth speech;
Night after night they display knowledge.
There is no speech or language
Where their voice is not heard.
Their voice goes out into all the earth,
Their words to the ends of the world. |
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Romans 1:20
For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities -- His
eternal power and divine nature -- have been clearly seen, being
understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. |
| Sire, By coupling the undirected, purposeless
variations to the blind, uncaring process of natural selection, Darwin
made the theological or spiritual explanations of the life processes
superfluous.
Douglas Futuyma - Evolutionary Biology |
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Materialism
From eternity were the particles...
and the particles became complex living stuff.
And the living stuff became aware,
and the living stuff conceived of god. |
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Edwin Hubble |
Spiral Nebula |
Hubble's Sketch |
Hubble Space Telescope Image of Spiral Galaxy |
The 'Pinwheel' Galaxy |
Hubble Deep Field Image |
Hubble Deep Field Image |
Galaxies Listed by Distance and Red-Shift |
Mount Wilston |
Albert Einstein and Edwin Hubble at Mount Wilson in 1931 |
Philosophically the notion of a
beginning of the present order is repugnant to me. I should like to find
a genuine loophole. I simply do not believe the present order of things
started off with a bang...the expanding Universe is preposterous... it
leaves me cold.
Sir Arthur Eddington |
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An infinitely old universe “would relieve us of the
necessity of understanding the origin of matter at any finite time in
the past.”
Robert Dicke, Princeton 1965 |
Arnio Penzias and Robert Willson |
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Gravitationally Lensed Image of Highest Red
Shift Galaxy - Hubble Space Telescope |
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Problems with the Oscillating Universe Model
- Not enough mass to cause a recollapse
- Energy available to do work would dissipate with each cycle
- Universe has low mechanical efficiency or "thermodynamic
elasticity" (Guth and Sher)
- An accelerating expansion?
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AstroTheology: Religious Reflections on Extraterrestrial Life Forms |
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Becoming Human: Brain, Mind, Emergence |
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Darwin: A Friend to Religion? |
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Divine Action
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Dreams and
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E. Coli at the No
Free Lunchroom |
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Engaging
Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence: An Adventure in Astro-Ethics |
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Evangelical
Atheism: a response to Richard Dawkins |
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Christian Theology |
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Evolution: What
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Evolution and
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Evolution and
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Evolution and
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Evolution, Creation, and Semiotics |
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The Expelled
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Faith and Reason:
An Introduction |
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Faith in the Future:
Religion, Aging, and Healthcare in the 21st Century |
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Francisco Ayala
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From Christian
Passions to Scientific Emotions |
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Genetic
Engineering and Food |
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Genetics
and Ethics |
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Genetic
Technologies - the Radical Revision of Human Existence and the Natural
World |
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Genomics,
Nanotechnology and Robotics |
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Getting Mind out
of Meat |
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God and Creation:
Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives on Big Bang Cosmology |
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God, Humanity and the
Cosmos: A Textbook in Science and Religion |
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God the Spirit -
and Natural Science |
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Historical
Examples of the Science and Religion Debate (GHC) |
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History of
Creationism |
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Intelligent Design
Coming Clean |
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Issues
for the Millennium: Cloning and Genetic Technologies |
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Jean Vanier of
L'Arche |
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Nano-Technology
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Natural Science and Christian Theology - A Select Bibliography |
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Neuroscience and
the Soul |
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Perspectives on
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Questions that Shape Our Future |
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Reductionism
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Reintroducing Teleology Into Science |
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Science and
Suffering |
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Scientific
Perspectives on Divine Action (CTNS/Vatican Series) |
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Space
Exploration and Positive Stewardship |
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Stem-Cell Debate: Ethical
Questions |
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Stem-Cell
Ethics: A Theological Brief |
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Stem-Cell
Questions |
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Theistic
Evolution: A Christian Alternative to Atheism, Creationism, and
Intelligent Design... |
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Theology and Science:
Current Issues and Future Directions |
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Unscientific
America: How science illiteracy threatens our future |
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Will ET End
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