Binding: Paperback
Description: Here is an unprecedented collection of twenty freewheeling and revealing interviews with major players in the ongoing - - and increasingly heated - - debate about the relationship between religion and science. These lively conversations cover the most important and interesting topics imaginable: the Big Bang the origins of life the nature of consciousness the foundations of religion the meaning of God and much more. In Atoms and Eden Peabody Award - winning journalist Steve Paulson explores these topics with some of the most prominent public intellectuals of our time including Richard Dawkins Karen Armstrong E. O. Wilson Sam Harris Elaine Pagels Francis Collins Daniel Dennett Jane Goodall Paul Davies and Steven Weinberg. The interviewees include Christians Buddhists Jews and Muslims as well as agnostics atheists and other scholars who hold perspectives that are hard to categorize. Paulson's interviews sweep across a broad range of scientific disciplines - - evolutionary biology quantum physics cosmology and neuroscience - - and also explore key issues in theology religious history and what William James called ''the varieties of religious experience.' Collectively these engaging dialogues cover the major issues that have often pitted science against religion - - from the origins of the universe to debates about God Darwin the nature of reality and the limits of human reason. These are complex intellectually rich discussions presented in an accessible and engaging manner. Most of these interviews were originally published as individual cover stories for Salon. com where they generated a huge reader response. Public Radio's " To the Best of Our Knowledge" will present a major companion series on related topics this fall. A feast of ideas and competing perspectives this volume will appeal to scientists spiritual seekers and the intellectually curious.
Title: Atoms And Eden Conversations On Religion And Science
Author(s): Paulson Steve
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780199743162
Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Date: 11/2/2010
Category: Popular Science