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Science and spirituality : making room for faith in the age of science /
Michael Ruse offers a new analysis of the often troubled relationship between science and religion. Arguing against both extremes - in one corner, the New Atheists; in the other, the Creationists and their offspring the Intelligent Designers - he asserts that science is the highest source of human i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Michael Ruse offers a new analysis of the often troubled relationship between science and religion. Arguing against both extremes - in one corner, the New Atheists; in the other, the Creationists and their offspring the Intelligent Designers - he asserts that science is the highest source of human inquiry. Yet, by its very nature and its deep reliance on metaphor, science restricts itself and is unable to answer basic, significant questions about the meaning of the universe and humankind's place within it: why is there something rather than nothing? What is the meaning of it all? Ruse shows that one can legitimately be a skeptic about these questions, and yet why it is open for a Christian, or member of any faith, to offer answers. Scientists, he concludes, should be proud of their achievements but modest about their scope. Christians should be confident of their mission but respectful of the successes of science. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 264 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-250) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511677250 0511677251 0511681747 9780511681745 9781282536173 1282536176 0521755948 9780521755948 9780511676338 0511676336 1107207630 9781107207639 0511739567 9780511739569 9786612536175 6612536179 0511678517 9780511678516 0511683723 9780511683725 0511679769 9780511679766 |