<!g>Barbour’s recent position has shifted from what it was in the 1960s, when in the context of two rival models (steady state and <!g>Big Bang) he stressed the neutrality of theology to such specific aspects of <!g>cosmology as t=0. In his 1990 Gifford Lectures he suggested that if a clear scientific consensus should emerge on the issue of t=0, it would be relevant to theology. Compare Ian Barbour, <!g>Issues in Science and Religion (New York: Harper & Row, 1966), 366-368; 377; 380; 414; 458 with <!g>Religion in an Age of Science, op. cit., 128-129. For a detailed analysis of Barbour’s’s position, see Russell, "Finite Beginning...", op. cit.