Destination of the Species
This is an impressive book by the former Secretary of State for the Environment. It is exceptionally well-informed and wide ranging, the result of decades…… Read More »
Category: Science & Religion
The Language of Genetics
Some readers may be familiar with Denis Alexander's work at the interface between science and religion, currently as director of the Faraday Institute in Cambridge.…… Read More »
Building Cultures of Trust
There has been widespread concern about the breakdown of trust in modern society at many different levels. Writing from an American viewpoint, the author begins…… Read More »
Religion versus Science
The author is a geologist who is also practising Buddhist. He takes the view that religion and science represent complementary ways of knowing. While science…… Read More »
Science & Religious Experience
These books attempt to reconcile science and religion. The manner of their failure illustrates the cultural dilemma of the 21st century. The most persuasive is…… Read More »
Global Perspectives on Science & Spirituality
This is an interesting collection of essays on Science and Spirituality from Asian or Eastern European authors, but it promises somewhat more than it delivers.…… Read More »
Making Sense of Evolution
Subtitled 'Darwin, God and the Drama of Life', this book by a well-known science and religion scholar steers a middle path between scientific materialism and…… Read More »
SCIENCE & RELIGION AT THE CROSS ROADS
For many members of the SMN the Holy Grail of philosophy is some vision of the unity of science and spirituality. In this book Frank…… Read More »
Alone in the World?
This is a series of Gifford lectures about human uniqueness in science and theology, specifically in the fields of theological anthropology and paleoanthropology. The author…… Read More »
The God Gene: How Faith Is Hardwired into Our Genes
The message: some get or got The God Gene more readily than others. This may sound like favoritism on the part of the God Gene…… Read More »