Introduction:
Rethinking
Relations between Religion and Science
William Sweet
I. History and Contexts in Biology and Evolutionary Theory
1. The Scientists' Declaration Revisited: Youth, Religion and Science
in
mid-Victorian Britain
Hannah Gay, History,
Simon
Fraser University and Centre for the History of Science, Technology
&
Medicine, Imperial College, University of London.
2. Theological Insights from Charles Darwin
Denis O. Lamoureux,
Science
and Religion, University of Alberta
3. A Model of Interaction Between Science and Theology from the
Scientific
Papers of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Ludovico Galleni,
Science,
Università di Pisa
4. Biology and a Theology of Evolution
Arthur Peacocke,
University
of Oxford
II. Physics, Philosophy and Fine Tuning
5. Creation, Metaphysics, and Cosmology
Lawrence Dewan,
Philosophy,
Dominican College
6. Whitehead, God, and Relativity
Richard Feist,
Philosophy,
Saint Paul University
7. Design Inferences, Fine-Tuning, and the Prior Probability of Divine
Intelligent
Agency
Kenneth Himma,
Philosophy,
University of Washington
8. Cosmological Theories and the Question of the Existence of a
Creator
John Bell, Philosophy,
University
of Western Ontario
III. Naturalism and the Non-Natural
9. On Scientific Explanations of Mystical Experience of God
Jerome Gellman,
Philosophy,
Ben Gurion University/ Israel
10. The Human Genome Revolution, Society, and Religion
Job Kozhamthadam, Jnana
Deepa
Vidyapeeth, Pune, India
11. Partner of the Sciences or Object of Study? Theology and Religion
in
Relation to the Natural and Social Sciences
Willem B. Drees,
Theology,
Leiden University, the
Netherlands
12. Beyond Naturalism: Scientific Creativity and Theological
Knowledge
Paul Allen, Theology,
Concordia
University
IV. Conceptual Issues
13. Can Science Provide Evidence for Metaphysics?
Leslie Armour,
Philosophy,
Dominican College, Ottawa
14. Science and Religious Belief: some conceptual issues
William Sweet,
Philosophy,
St Francis Xavier University
Index
Contributors
William Sweet
(Editor)
is
Professor
of Philosophy at St Francis Xavier University, in Nova Scotia, Canada, and author of Idealism
and Rights (1997), Religious Belief: The Contemporary
Debate
(2003) and, with Hendrik Hart, Anti-foundationalism, Faith and
Community
(2003). He has edited several collections of scholarly essays,
including
La philosophie de la religion à la fin du vingtième
siècle (1993), Religion, Modernity and Post Modernity
(1997), God and Argument
(1999), The Bases of Ethics (2000), Idealism,
Metaphysics and
Community (2001), Philosophy, Culture, and Pluralism
(2002), and, most recently, Philosophical Theory and the
Universal
Declaration of Human Rights. He is author of some one hundred
scholarly
articles, primarily in the history of idealist social and political
thought,
is a co-editor of a new edition of Bernard Bosanquet's The
Philosophical
Theory of the State (2001, with Gerald F. Gaus), and edited the 20
volume
Collected Works of Bernard Bosanquet (1999) and the 3 volume Bernard Bosanquet: Essays in Philosophy and Social Policy,
(1883–1922).
He is the Secretary-General of the World Union of Catholic
Philosophical
Societies, Vice President of the Istituto Internazionale Jacques
Maritain
(Rome), and President of the
Canadian Jacques Maritain Association.
Richard Feist
(Editor)
is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Saint Paul University in Ottawa. He has edited Husserl and the Sciences: Selected Perspectives, and has
published
in Études maritainiennes, Oeculture, The Nature of
Metaphysics,
Dialogue, Journal of Philosophy, Protosoziologie, Science et Esprit,
Synthese,
De Philosophia, and other journals.
Paul
Allen teaches in Department of Theological Studies, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada;
for some years he was also the Canadian Director of the Science and
Religion
Course Programme, sponsored by the Centre for Theology and the Natural
Sciences
(Berkeley).
He
has published in the Encyclopedia of
Science
and Religion
Leslie Armour is Research Professor
at
the Dominican College, Ottawa, and Professor
Emeritus
of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa. He is the author of “Infini
Rien”: Pascal's Wager and the Human Paradox (1993), Being and
Idea: Developments of Some Themes in Spinoza and Hegel (1992), The
Idea
of Canada and the Crisis of Community (1981), The Faces of
Reason:
an essay on philosophy and culture in English Canada, 1850-1950
(1981,
with Elizabeth Trott), The Conceptualization of the Inner Life (1980,
with Edward T. Bartlett), Logic and Reality: an Investigation into
the
Idea of a Dialectical System (1972), The Concept of Truth (1969),
and The Rational and the Real: an Essay in Metaphysics (1962).
He
is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
*John Bell is
Professor
of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author
(with
D. DeVidi and G. Solomon†) of Logical Options: An
Introduction
to Classical and Alternative Logics (2001), The Art
of the
Intelligible: An Elementary Survey of Mathematics in its Conceptual
Development
(1999), A Primer of Infinitesimal Analysis (1998),
Toposes & Local Set Theories: An Introduction
(1988), Boolean-Valued Models and Independence Proofs in
Set Theory
(1977; 3rd ed., 2005), The Continuous and the Infinitesimal in
Mathematics
and Philosophy,
(2005), and
(with M. Machover) A Course in Mathematical Logic
(1977;
2nd printing, 1986). He has also published articles in Transcendent
Philosophy, Archive for Mathematical Logic, Husserl and the Sciences, Mathematical Logic
Quarterly,
Axiomathes, Philosophia Mathematica, Journal of Philosophical Logic, Stanford
Encylopedia
of Philosophy, Journal of Symbolic Logic, Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Notre
Dame
Journal of Formal Logic, International Journal of
Theoretical
Physics, Synthese,
Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, the British
Journal
for the Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Science,
and other journals.
*Lawrence
Dewan, O.P. is Professor of Philosophy at the Dominican College
of
Philosophy and Theology (Ottawa, Canada) and author of articles in Acta
Philosophica,
Études maritainiennes, The New Scholasticism, Laval
théologique
et philosophique, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly,
Proceedings
of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Modern Schoolman,
Dionysius,
Dialogue (Canada), and other journals. He is a member of the Pontifical
Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, Past President of the American Catholic
Philosophical
Association, and Past President of the Canadian Jacques Maritain
Association.
*Willem B. Drees
holds
the chair of philosophy of religion and ethics at Leiden University, the Netherlands. Drees is also
President
of ESSSAT, the European Society for the Study of Science And Theology. He has an advanced degree in theoretical
physics,
and doctorates in theology and philosophy. Drees has published and
edited
studies on religion and science, including Beyond the Big
Bang:
Quantum Cosmologies and God (Open Court, 1990), Religion,
Science and Naturalism (Cambridge University Press, 1996), and Creation: From Nothing until Now (Routledge, 2001). He
has
won various prizes for his writings on religion and science, including
the
'Legatum Stolpianum', offered once every five years by the University
of
Leiden and a Prins Bernhard Fonds Prize for the humanities, offered by
the
Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen
Ludovico Galleni, is a
lecturer
at Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Chimica e Biotecnologie
agrarie,
and in Centro Interdipartimentale per lo Studio dei Sistemi Complessi.
His
work includes research on the relation of theology and science,
particularly
in light of the work of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. He has published in
Concilium,
Aquins, Zygon, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Biology Forum, and Revue
des
questions scientifiques.
Hannah Gay is a
Professor
of History at Simon Fraser University (Canada) and a Senior Research
Fellow
at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine, Imperial College, University of London. She did her first
graduate
work in Chemistry at Imperial College, London, before moving to the
study
of History. Her recent work has been published in British
Journal
for the History of Science, Ambix: The Journal of the
Society
for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry, Annals of
Science,
Endeavor, History of Science, Canadian Journal of History, Dialogue,
and Canadian Women Studies. Her research on the
relation of science
and religion, focuses on the important nineteenth century debates.
Yehuda (Jerome)
Gellman
is a Professor of Philosophy at Ben Gurion University in Israel
His general areas
of
research include philosophy of religion, epistemology, and Jewish
thought
and he is currently working on projects which address topics of
religious
experience, the concept of belief, Hasidic thought, and feminist
theology.
His work includes: Experience of God and the Rationality
of Theistic
Belief (1997), The Fear, The Trembling, and the Fire;
(2001) Mystical Experience of
God:
A Philosophical Inquiry; and Abraham! Abraham!
Kierkegaard
and the Hasidim on the Binding of Isaac.
Kenneth Himma,
teaches
Philosophy and Information Systems at the University of Washington, and holds adjunct
appointments in the Comparative Religion Department and in the School of Law. He is an associate
editor
of the recently released Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence
and
Philosophy of Law and has published in the International
Journal for Philosophy of Religion; Faith and Philosophy, Southern Journal of Philosophy, History of
Philosophy
Quarterly, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, and Legal Theory.
Job
Kozhamthadam,
sj, is Professor in Philosophy of Science, Science and Religion and
Basic
Science at Jnana Deepa Vidyapeeth, Pune, India.
He has frequently been Visiting Professor of Philosophy of Science at
Loyola University of Chicago. Fr. Kozhamthadam holds degrees in Physics
from St. Xavier's College (Ranchi)
and
from Patna University,
and
in Philosophy and in Theology from Jnana Deepa Vidyapeeth (Pune), Vidya
Jyoti
(Delhi),
The
University of Notre Dame, and The University of Maryland. He is the
author
of The Discovery of Kepler's Laws: The Interaction of
Science,
Philosophy, and Religion (named Outstanding Academic Book of the
Year
1994 by Choice Magazine), and Editor of Interactions
and Interpretation: Philosophical Reflections on Science, Religion, and
Hermeneutics
(1997) and Contemporary Science and Religion in Dialogue:
Challenges
and Opportunities (2002). He is a Member of the Indian National
Commission
for the History of Science, Indian National Science Academy.
Denis O. Lamoureux
is an assistant professor of science and religion at St. Joseph's College in the University of Alberta. He is a co-author
(with
Phillip Johnson) of Darwinism
Defeated?:
The Johnson-Lamoureux Debate on Biological Origins
Arthur Peacocke is
a priest in the Church of England and was formerly a professor of
physical
biochemistry, Dean of Clare College, Cambridge, and the
founder-Director
of the Ian Ramsey Centre at St Cross College, Oxford. Author of some 126
papers
and 3 books in the area of biochemistry, he is also the author of 63
articles/papers and 9 books in the areas
of theology and philosophy.
Among his books are Creation and the World of Science (1979), Intimations of Reality; critical realism in
science
and religion (1984), God and the New Biology (1986),
Theology
for a Scientific Age (1990; 1993) From DNA to Dean--reflections
and
explorations of a Priest-scientist (1996) and God and Science:
quest
for Christian credibility (1996) Paths from Science towards
God: the
End of All Our Exploring (2001). He won the
International
Lecomte du Nouiy Prize in 1973, he is a member of the Order of the British Empire, and holds an honorary
doctorate from Georgetown University. He was the recipient,
in
2001, of the $1,000,000 dollar Templeton Prize in Science and Religion.