The Scientific & the Divine: Conflict and Reconciliation from Ancient Greece to the PresentRowman & Littlefield, 2003 - 334 стор. There have been many--too many--attempts over the centuries to bring science and religion into harmony. James A. Arieti and Patrick A. Wilson survey and assess these various efforts, from Plato to Aquinas to present-day philosophers and theologians. The Scientific & The Divine examines the perennial issues that keep science and religion at arm's length, clarify those issues, and fit them into an historical framework. This book is ideal for use as a textbook in any course that discusses the interplay between science and faith. Arieti and Wilson do not push an agenda--they take a critical, analytical look at the theories that started when the ancient Greeks realized the religious implications of scientific discovery. The Scientific & The Divine shows the historical continuity of both the central issues and the many potential solutions, and demonstrates which of these theories comes closest to saving the marriage between science and religion. |
Зміст
The Problem | 3 |
Some Preliminary Examples | 5 |
Aristotle | 7 |
Nehemiah | 9 |
Is Human Reason Able to Explain the World? | 12 |
The Nature of Reason | 13 |
All Men Desire to Know | 16 |
Degrees of Certainty | 17 |
Bonaventure | 202 |
Thomas Aquinas | 206 |
Aquinass First Two Proofs of the Existence of God | 207 |
The Immutability of God and the Mutability of Creation | 209 |
Aquinass Difference with Maimonides on the Immutability of God and Creation | 210 |
Aquinass Final Three Proofs for the Existence of God | 211 |
The Degree to Which Science Can Explain God | 213 |
Conclusion | 214 |
Knowledge as a Good | 20 |
The Rationality of Desiring Knowledge | 21 |
Human Nature and Human Questions | 24 |
Bad Answers and Socratic Ignorance | 25 |
Religions Answers | 27 |
The Negative | 31 |
Sciences Answers | 35 |
The Negative | 37 |
What Is Science? | 43 |
The Problem | 44 |
Platos Solution | 46 |
Aristotles Conception of Science | 49 |
Problems Concerning Religion and Science in the light of Aristotle | 55 |
Modern Views of Science | 64 |
Faith and Scientific Knowledge | 71 |
The Origin of Scientific Attempts to Explain the World | 76 |
Thales and Monism | 77 |
Parmenides and Heraclitus | 79 |
Empedocles | 83 |
Democritus | 84 |
Conclusion | 87 |
The God of Ancient Philosophers | 92 |
Platos God | 96 |
Aristotles God | 97 |
Ciceros God | 103 |
Neoplatonism | 109 |
How God Affects the World | 111 |
Human Access to the Divine | 113 |
The God of Philosophy | 118 |
Reconciling Science and Religion | 125 |
General Considerations Concerning the Reconciliation of Science and Religion | 127 |
Gods Invisibility | 128 |
Evil in the World | 129 |
Gods Omniscience and Human Free Will | 131 |
Human Corporeality | 132 |
Plato | 135 |
Philo of Alexandria | 144 |
Reconciling Science and Religion in Medieval Islam | 154 |
al Farabi | 155 |
Avicenna | 156 |
al Ghazali | 160 |
Averroës | 164 |
Reconciling Science and Religion in Medieval Judaism | 176 |
Abraham ibn Daud | 182 |
Maimonides | 185 |
Reconciling Science and Religion in the Christian Middle Ages | 200 |
Reconciling Science and Religion from the Renaissance through the Enlightenment | 218 |
Galileo | 220 |
Johannes Kepler | 222 |
René Descartes | 223 |
Baruch de Spinoza | 226 |
Isaac Newton | 227 |
Gottfried Leibniz | 228 |
Final Thoughts on the Seventeenth Century | 231 |
Immanuel Kant | 232 |
Conclusion | 236 |
Science and Religion in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries | 239 |
Charles Darwin | 241 |
A Few Prominent Physicists of the Twentieth Century | 243 |
Max Planck | 244 |
Erwin Schrödinger | 245 |
Conclusion | 246 |
Science and Religion at the End of the Twentieth Century | 250 |
The Intelligent Design Research Program | 251 |
Dembskis Explanatory Filter | 252 |
Refinement of the Explanatory Filter | 254 |
God of the Gaps | 255 |
Explanatory Power | 259 |
Religious Status | 260 |
Scientific Status | 262 |
Anthropic Selection Effect | 263 |
Applicability of Mathematics | 266 |
Humes Objections | 267 |
Transcendent Designers | 268 |
Keith Ward | 269 |
Arthur Peacocke | 284 |
John Polkinghorne | 287 |
NonOverlapping Magisteria | 290 |
Conclusion | 292 |
Conclusion | 302 |
General Comments | 303 |
Types of Reconciliation That Are Possible | 306 |
Denial of Science | 307 |
Redefining the Key TermGod | 308 |
Separating the Spheres of Religion and Science | 309 |
Problems | 310 |
A Proposal | 311 |
Conclusions about God and Humankind | 312 |
Works Cited | 315 |
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