A distinguished scholar urges scientists and religious thinkers to become colleagues rather than adversaries in areas where their fields overlap Each age has its own crisis-our modern experience of science-religion conflict is not so very different from that experienced by our forebears, Keith Thomson proposes in this thoughtful book. He considers the ideas and writings of Thomas Jefferson and Charles Darwin, two men who struggled mightily to reconcile their religion and their science, then looks to more recent times when scientific challenges to religion (evolutionary theory, for example) have given rise to powerful political responses from religious believers. Today as in the eighteenth century, there are pressing reasons for members on each side of the religion-science debates to find common ground, Thomson contends. No precedent exists for shaping a response to issues like cloning or stem cell research, unheard of fifty years ago, and thus the opportunity arises for all sides to cooperate in creating a new ethics for the common good.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-13
9780300203677
eBay Product ID (ePID)
214261601
Product Key Features
Author
Keith Stewart Thomson
Publication Name
Private Doubt, Public Dilemma: Religion and Science since Jefferson and Darwin
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Science
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
216mm
Item Width
149mm
Item Weight
388g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Keith Stewart Thomson
Series Title
The Terry Lectures Series
Topic
Religious History
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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