Religion & Science

He was the dominant intellectual figure of his age. His published works, including the Principia Mathematica and Opticks, reached across the scientific spectrum, revealing the degree of his interdisciplinary genius. His renown opened doors throughout his...

The conflict between science and religion seems indelible, even eternal. Surely two such divergent views of the universe have always been in fierce opposition? Actually, that's not the case, says Peter Harrison: our very concepts of science and religion...

Using excerpts from a letter written by famed astronomer Galileo in 1615, two modern-day astronomers explore the relationship between science and faith, arguing that our notion of ultimate truth must include both the physical and spiritual domains.About...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998187150Author Richard L ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Institute for Vaishnava StudiesPublisher Institute for Vaishnava...

"As Zadeh concludes, reformers and modernists have closed the rich and varied archive revealed in Wonders and Rarities...In this beautifully written and engaging text, Zadeh takes his readers back to the world of surprise and enchantment that preceded...

Medicine and Religion is the first book to comprehensively examine the relationship between medicine and religion in the Western tradition from ancient times to the modern era. Beginning with the earliest attempts to heal the body and account for the...

"Do you have wisdom to count the clouds?" asks the voice of God from the whirlwind in the stunningly beautiful catalogue of nature-questions from the Old Testament Book of Job. Tom McLeish takes a scientist's reading of this ancient text as a centrepiece...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514003831Author S. Joshua SwamidassFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 237mm * 152mm...

Our sun drives the weather, forms the landscape, feeds and fuels - but sometimes destroys - the creatures that live upon it, controls their patterns of activity, makes chemicals in the skin that cheer up those who bask in its rays, and for the ancients...

Our sun drives the weather, forms the landscape, feeds and fuels - but sometimes destroys - the creatures that live upon it, controls their patterns of activity, makes chemicals in the skin that cheer up those who bask in its rays, and for the ancients...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933993652Author Todd MacalisterFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Apocryphile PressPublisher Apocryphile PressWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

The Bible was the first scientific textbook of all; and it got some things right (and plenty more wrong). Steve Jones' new book rewrites it in the light of modern science. Are we all descended from a single couple, a real-life Adam and Eve? Was the...

Consider the complexity of a living cell after 3.8 billion years of evolution. Is it more awesome to suppose that a transcendent God fashioned the cell at a stroke, or to realize that it evolved with no Almighty Hand, but arose on its own in the changing...

The science/faith discussion is often hindered by a fundamental misunderstanding of the role and function of science. This misunderstand was made most evident, with tragic consequences, during the recent pandemic. The ways that science has gone wrong,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948390869Author Ermias Sahle SelassieFormat PaperbackPage Count 101Imprint Frontline BooksPublisher Frontline BooksWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 152mm...

A fully updated new edition of a critically acclaimed examination of the theories and writings of Richard Dawkins by a world-renowned expert on the relation of science and religion Includes in-depth analysis of Dawkins' landmark treatise The God...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830834228Author Paul E. LittleFormat PaperbackPage Count 231Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 280gDimensions(mm)...

Much progress has been made to understand the intricacies of the brain's workings. Some have claimed, and many assumed, that these findings have challenged faith in God to the point of destruction. Are we not mere neural machines? Are religious...

Pain, suffering, and extinction are intrinsic to the evolutionary process. In this book Christopher Southgate shows how the world that is "very good" is also "groaning in travail" and subjected by God to that travail. Southgate then evaluates several...

If the physical constants, initial conditions, or laws of nature in our universe had been even slightly different, then the evolution of life would have been impossible. This observation has led many philosophers and scientists to ask the natural next...

Appropriating insights from empirical findings and theoretical constructs of 'embodied cognition', this study explores how theological understanding is accommodated to the bodily nature of human cognition. The principle of divine accommodation provides a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830852017Author Craig D. AllertFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 155mm *...

First Published in 2017. Neurotheology has garnered substantial attention in the academic and lay communities in recent years. Several books have been written addressing the relationship between the brain and religious experience and numerous scholarly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783848216253Author Fr Chad RippergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Books on DemandPublisher Books on DemandWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Why are white evangelicals the most skeptical major religious group in America regarding climate change? Previous scholarship has pointed to cognitive factors such as conservative politics, anti-science attitudes, aversion to big government, and theology...

Simulations of God is a brilliant, provocative work by one of the great creative scientists of the twentieth century, John Lilly, M.D.. In it he examines the sacred realms of self, religion, science, philosophy, sex, drugs, politics, money, crime, war,...

After its rediscovery in 1417, Lucretius's Epicurean didactic poem De Rerum Natura threatened to supply radicals and atheists with the one weapon unbelief had lacked in the Middle Ages: good answers. Scholars could now challenge Christian patterns of...

Premodern and early modern yoga comprise techniques with a wide range of aims, from turning inward in quest of the true self, to turning outward for divine union, to channeling bodily energy in pursuit of sexual pleasure. Early modern yoga also...

Robert Boyle ranks with Newton and Einstein as one of the world's most important scientists. Aristocrat and natural philosopher, he was a remarkably wide-ranging and penetrating thinker-pioneering the modern experimental method, championing a novel...

Throughout history, arguments for and against the existence of God have been largely confined to philosophy and theology, while science has sat on the sidelines. Despite the fact that science has revolutionized every aspect of human life and greatly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781725278615Author Harris BorFormat HardbackPage Count 266Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979014185Author David KlinghofferFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Discovery InstitutePublisher Discovery InstituteWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780825447617Author Eryn LynumFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Kregel PublicationsPublisher Kregel PublicationsWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

The biblical story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden is a cornerstone of Western civilization, yet there are still many mysteries concerning its origins and meaning. In The Mythology of Eden, Arthur and Elena George utilize new historical and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984061198Author Thomas HornFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Defender PublishingPublisher Defender PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666735284Author Keith WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Cascade BooksPublisher Cascade BooksWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 6mm

"One of the most provocative new books of the year, and, for me, mindblowing." -Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind"Kripal makes many sympathetic points about the present spiritual state of America. . . . [He]...

For millennia plant and animal species have received little sustained attention as subjects of Christian theology and ethics in their own right. Focused on the human dilemma of sin and redemptive grace, theology has considered the doctrine of creation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830823956Author Phillip E. JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 218g

This book is about Genesis and how far scientific discoveries can help us to understand it. Many of us are confused about what Genesis tells us, and how (and why) to approach its ancient story of the origin of the world and mankind. We are usually...