The soul of science : christian faith and natural philosophy
Pearcey, Nancy R.Thaxton, Charles B.
Crossway Books (Illinois, 1994) (eng) English9780891077664Turning point Christian worldview seriesUnknownRELIGION AND SCIENCE-HISTORY; Unknown"I consider The Soul of Science to be a most significant book which, in our scientific age, should be required reading for all thinking Christians and all practicing scientists. The authors demonstrate how the flowering of modern science depended upon the Judeo-Christian worldview of the existence of a real physical contingent universe, created and held in being by an omnipotent personal God, with man having the capabilities of rationality and creativity, and thus being capable of investigating it. Pearcey and Thaxton make excellent use of analogies to elucidate difficult concepts, and the clarity of their explanations for the nonspecialist, for example, of Einstein's relativity theories or of the informational content of DNA and its consequences for theories of prebiotic evolution, are quite exceptional, alone making the volume worth purchasing." --Dr. David Shotton, Lecturer in Cell Biology, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
"Pearcey and Thaxton show that the alliance between atheism and science is a temporary aberration and that, far from being inimical to science, Christian theism has played and will continue to play an important role in the growth of scientific understanding. This brilliant book deserves wide readership." --Phillip E. Johnson, University of California, Berkeley
"This book would be an excellent text for courses on science and religion, and it should be read by all Christians interested in the relationship between science and their theological commitments." --J.P. Moreland, Professor of Philosophy, Talbot School of Theology, Biola University
Physical dimension
298 p.22 cm.ill.
Summary / review / table of contents
The new history of science.
An invented institution: Christianity and the scientific revolution ;
The history of science and the science of history: contemporary approaches and their intellectual roots
The first scientific revolution.
A new "thinking cap”: three little sciences and how they grew ;
The Newtonian world machine: how does God relate to the world? ;
The belated revolution in biology: taking biology from metaphysics
The rise and fall of mathematics.
Math in the past: discovering the structure of creation ;
The idol falls: non-Euclidean geometry and the revolution in mathematics
The second scientific revolution.
Is everything relative? : The revolution in physics ;
Quantum mysteries: making sense of the new physics ;
A chemical code: resolving historical controversies.