Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Notes on Contributors x
Introduction xviiiJ. B. Stump and Alan G. Padgett
Part I Historical Episodes 1
1 Early Christian Belief in Creation and the Beliefs Sustaining the Modern Scientific Endeavor 3Christopher B. Kaiser
2 The Copernican Revolution and the Galileo Affair 14Maurice A. Finocchiaro
3 Women, Mechanical Science, and God in the Early Modern Period 26Jacqueline Broad
4 Christian Responses to Darwinism in the Late Nineteenth Century 37Peter J. Bowler
5 Science Falsely So Called: Fundamentalism and Science 48Edward B. Davis
Part II Methodology 61
6 How to Relate Christian Faith and Science 63Mikael Stenmark
7 Authority 74Nicholas Rescher
8 Feminist Philosophies of Science: Towards a Prophetic Epistemology 82Lisa L. Stenmark
9 Practical Objectivity: Keeping Natural Science Natural 93Alan G. Padgett
10 The Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism 103Alvin Plantinga
Part III Natural Theology 117
11 Arguments to God from the Observable Universe 119Richard Swinburne
12 “God of the Gaps” Arguments 130Gregory E. Ganssle
13 Natural Theology after Modernism 140J. B. Stump
14 Religious Epistemology Personified: God without Natural Theology 151Paul K. Moser
15 Problems for Christian Natural Theology 162Alexander R. Pruss and Richard M. Gale
Part IV Cosmology and Physics 173
16 Modern Cosmology and Christian Theology 175Stephen M. Barr
17 Does the Universe Need God? 185Sean Carroll
18 Does God Love the Multiverse? 198Don N. Page
19 The Fine-Tuning of the Cosmos: A Fresh Look at its Implications 207Robin Collins
20 Quantum Theory and Theology 220Rodney D. Holder
Part V Evolution 231
21 Creation and Evolution 233Denis R. Alexander
22 Darwinism and Atheism: A Marriage Made in Heaven? 246Michael Ruse
23 Creation and Evolutionary Convergence 258Simon Conway Morris
24 Signature in the Cell: Intelligent Design and the DNA Enigma 270Stephen C. Meyer
25 Darwin and Intelligent Design 283Francisco J. Ayala
26 Christianity and Human Evolution 295John F. Haught
27 Christian Theism and Life on Earth 306Paul Draper
Part VI The Human Sciences 317
28 Toward a Cognitive Science of Christianity 319Justin L. Barrett
29 The Third Wound: Has Psychology Banished the Ghost from the Machine? 335Dylan Evans
30 Sociology and Christianity 344John H. Evans and Michael S. Evans
31 Economics and Christian Faith 356Robin J. Klay
Part VII Christian Bioethics 369
32 Shaping Human Life at the Molecular Level 371James C. Peterson
33 An Inclusive Framework for Stem Cell Research 381John F. Kilner
34 The Problem of Transhumanism in the Light of Philosophy and Theology 393Philippe Gagnon
35 Ecology and the Environment 406Lisa H. Sideris
Part VIII Metaphysical Implications 419
36 Free Will and Rational Choice 421E. J. Lowe
37 Science, Religion, and Infinity 430Graham Oppy
38 God and Abstract Objects 441William Lane Craig
39 Laws of Nature 453Lydia Jaeger
Part IX The Mind 465
40 Christianity, Neuroscience, and Dualism 467J. P. Moreland
41 The Emergence of Persons 480William Hasker
42 Christianity and the Extended-Mind Thesis 491Lynne Rudder Baker
43 In Whose Image? Artificial Intelligence and the Imago Dei 500Noreen Herzfeld
44 How Science Lost its Soul, and Religion Handed it Back 510Julian Baggini
Part X Theology 521
45 The Trinity and Scientific Reality 523John Polkinghorne
46 God and Miracle in an Age of Science 533Alan G. Padgett
47 Eschatology in Science and Theology 543Robert John Russell
48 The Quest for Transcendence in Theology and Cosmology 554Alexei V. Nesteruk
Part XI Significant Figures of the Twentieth Century in Science and Christianity 565
49 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 567James F. Salmon
50 Thomas F. Torrance 578Tapio Luoma
51 Arthur Peacocke 589Taede A. Smedes
52 Ian G. Barbour 600Nathan J. Hallanger
53 Wolfhart Pannenberg 611Hans Schwarz
54 John Polkinghorne 622Christopher C. Knight
Index 632