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Professor Lawrence M. Principe unfolds a surprisingly cooperative dynamic in which theologians and natural scientists share methods, ideas, aspirations, and a tradition of disputational dialogue. -- from publisher
Contents: Disc 1: Lecture 1. Science and religion --
Lecture 2. The warfare thesis --
Lecture 3. Faith and reason: Scripture and nature --
Lecture 4. God and nature: Miracles and demons --
Lecture 5. Church, Copernicus, and Galileo --
Lecture 6. Galileo's trial. Disc 2: Lecture 7. God the watchmaker --
Lecture 8. Natural theology and arguments from design --
Lecture 9. Geology, cosmology, and Biblical chronology --
Lecture 10. Darwin and responses to evolution --
Lecture 11. Fundamentalism and creationism --
Lecture 12. Past, present, and future.
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Religion & Spirituality. Nonfiction. HTML: What is the nature of the relationship between science and religion? When do they conflict? And how do they influence each other in the pursuit of knowledge and truth? While conventional wisdom says that science and theology must perpetually clash, they have actually been partners in an age-old adventure. These 12 engaging lectures cover both the historical sweep and philosophical flashpoints of this epic interaction. You'll encounter a surprisingly cooperative dynamic in which theologians and natural scientists - from St. Augustine to Sir Isaac Newton to contemporary thinkers - share methods, ideas, aspirations, and a tradition of disputational dialogue. Moving from the early centuries of the Christian era and the Middle Ages to our own day, Professor Principe examines St. Augustine's profound ideas about reason and faith, and he follows St. Thomas Aquinas's exploration of miracles - the need to identify them is one example of how scientific and theological inquiry overlap. You'll meet a 19th-century writer whose anti-Catholic diatribe spread myths that persist today, and you'll learn about the courage (and stubbornness) of Galileo, the unexpected rationality of his accusers, the inspiration of Darwin's natural selection, and the religious implications of LemaĆ®tre's big bang theory. The solution to modern conflicts is the study of history. Such study will equip you to join that partnership with ideas and a clear, historical perspective on the science/religion relationship. These tools will help you participate more effectively in a dialogue that is as thought-provoking today as it was hundreds of years ago.… (more)
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Evolution and creationism is gone over in some detail, as well as the evangelical, fundamentalist movements in America that have grown so large in recent years and are one of the major sources of the huge divisions and political battling for control Americans are currently facing.