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This
book is one of the rare attempts nowadays to restore the unity of science
and religion. It presents a good picture of present-day science, focusing
on the perennial great questions regarding the relations between Man and
the Universe. It attempts the virtually impossible: to present a constructive
dialog of diametrically opposed worldviews. It succeeds in opening a challenging
avenue of conversation between materialists and open-minded religious people.
Now on my third reading, I am still finding something new and valuable in
its pages.
— Attila Grandpierre
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Don't Let Science Get You Down, Timothy:
A Light-hearted (But Deadly Serious) Dialogue on Science, Faith, and Culture By Jean F. Drew and Sandi Venable
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
As Albert Einstein explained this, his own creed: “A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt of the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation.” Einstein — father of relativity theory and of the light quantum — was a deeply religious person in this sense: He saw that faith and reason were inseparable. A hundred years after Einstein’s pioneering work, his sense of the inseparability of faith and reason has been lost, replaced by a philosophic materialism that has penetrated modern-day science — which has recast the complementarity of faith and reason as the triumph of rationality over superstition. This book seeks to restore the proper relations between faith and reason. Its sources are Greek metaphysics and Judeo-Christian theology — the dual roots of the Western cultural tradition which gave birth to systematic science.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Authors’ Foreword Prologue Dramatis Personae The Scene The Dialogue The so-called “Cartesian Split”Appendix Nuts and BoltsAfterword
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