This concise introduction to science and religion focuses on Christianity and modern Western science (the epicenter of issues in science and religion in the West) with a concluding chapter on Muslim and Jewish Science and Religion. This book also invites the reader into the relevant literature with ample quotations from original texts.

This concise introduction to science and religion focuses on Christianity and modern Western science (the epicenter of issues in science and religion in the West) with a concluding chapter on Muslim and Jewish Science and Religion. This book also invites the reader into the relevant literature with ample quotations from original texts.

Agama dan Sains Asal-Usul secara kritis mendiskusikan isu-isu dalam agama dan sains-sains asal-usul baik dalam konteks historis maupun kontemporer. Setelah mengembangkan pilihan-pilihan untuk hubungan antara sains dan kepercayaan—konflik, separasi, dan integrasi—buku ini mendiskusikan tiga peristiwa historis: revolusi saintifik, peristiwa Galileo, dan penerimaan tulisan Darwin Asal-Usul Spesies. Perhatian khusus diberikan kepada mitos yang berpengaruh namun menyesatkan tentang peperangan antara sains dan agama. Buku ini menyelidiki isu-isu teoretis—kebetulan dan tujuan, psikologi agama evolusioner, relasi antara pikiran dan tubuh (dan neurosains dan kehendak bebas), dan relasi antara Allah dengan kebaikan. Setelah mendiskusikan Allah dan Ledakan Besar, buku ini disimpulkan dengan analisis tentang evolusi dalam tradisi Muslim dan Yahudi. Buku ini, yang tidak mengasumsikan latar belakang sebelumnya dari pembaca, menawarkan wawasan-wawasan ke masa lalu yang krusial dan ke dalam perdebatan-perdebatan masa kini yang paling hangat seputar sains dan agama.

Peter Harrison takes what we think we know about science and religion, dismantles it, and puts it back together again in a provocative new way. It is a mistake to assume, as most do, that the activities and achievements that are usually labeled religious and scientific have been more or less enduring features of the cultural landscape of the West. Harrison, by setting out the history of science and religion to see when and where they come into being and to trace their mutations over timereveals how distinctively Western and modern they are. Only in the past few hundred years have religious beliefs and practices been bounded by a common notion and set apart from the secular. And the idea of the natural sciences as discrete activities conducted in isolation from religious and moral concerns is even more recent, dating from the nineteenth century. Putting the so-called opposition between religion and science into historical perspective, as Harrison does here for the first time, has profound implications for our understanding of the present and future relations between them. "

This book examines the meaning of religion within the scientific, evidence-based history of our known past since the big bang. While our current major religions are only centuries or millennia old, our volume discusses the origins and development of human religious practice and belief over our species’ existence of 300,000 years. The volume also connects the scientific approach to natural and social history with ancient truths of our religious ancestors using new lines of inquiry, new technologies, new modes of expression, and new concepts. It brings together insights of natural scientists, social scientists, philosophers, writers, and theologians to discuss narratives of the universe. The essays discuss that to apprehend religion scientifically, or to interpret and explain science theologically, the subject must be examined through a variety of disciplinary lenses simultaneously and raise several theoretical, philosophical, and moral problems. With a singular investigation into the meaning of religion in the context of the 13.8 billion-year history of our universe, this book will be indispensable for scholars and students of religious studies, big history, sociology and social anthropology, philosophy, and science and technology studies.

From five authors with over two decades of experience teaching origins together in the classroom, this is the first textbook to offer a full-fledged discussion of the scientific narrative of origins from the Big Bang through humankind, from biblical and theological perspectives. This work gives the reader a detailed picture of mainstream scientific theories of origins along with how they fit into the story of God's creative and redemptive action.