This undergraduate textbook provides an introduction to the apparently incompatible subjects of religion and science.
Part One of the book consists of four chapters covering the nature of god as revealed by scientific miracles, such as the Big Bang, the origin of life, consciousness, and the development of ethics. The author takes purely scientific discoveries and shows how they can be used to hypothesize about God.
The second part of the book considers the historical relationship between science and Christian theology, then goes on to look at the historical development of areas of Christian thought that have created division between science and religious faith. The example of Christian theology is a basis for the same analysis to take place with other religions.
The final chapters examine how any given religion can achieve a synthesis between religious faith and scientific understanding.
Each chapter contains references for finding out more about particular arguments, be they scientific or religious areas of discussion. Where particularly difficult concepts are referred to in the body of the text, further explanations are provided in boxed sections.
Jean Dorricott is a member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science and an active member of a number of ecological societies. She completed her first course in Theology at Selly Oak in the 1960s and has continued to study the whole are of Science and Religion since then. She is also a member of the Science and Religion Forum founded by Dr Arthur Peacocke, and has published in the areas of Feminist Theology and Christian Parapsychology.
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