Morvillo, Nancy
Science and Religion: Understanding the Issues
From the heliocentric controversy and evolution, to debates on biotechnology and the environment, this book offers a balanced introduction to the key issues in science and religion.
- A balanced, introductory textbook which fully spans the interface between science and religion, and includes illustrations of scientific concepts throughout
- Explores key historical issues, including the heliocentric controversy, and evolution, but also topics of current importance, such as biotechnology and environmental issues
- Appendices include a wide range of biblical readings; excerpts from early philosophers, theologians and scientists, including Aristotle, Aquinas, Hume, Kant, Galileo, Newton, and Darwin; and short works from twentieth and twenty-first century scientists and theologians
- Accessibly structured in to sections covering cosmology, evolution, and ethics in a scientific age
- Provides significant coverage of scientific information and balanced explanations of the key debates for introductory students
- Author(s)
- Morvillo, Nancy
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2009
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 424 pages
- Category
- Religions
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781444317305
- Printed ISBN
- 9781405189668