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The Invitation from Science, Philosophy, and Religion
出版Oxford University Press, 2018
主題Religion / Christian Theology / GeneralReligion / Religion & ScienceScience / Physics / General
ISBN01988082839780198808282
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=xzRtDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Here is a fresh look at how science contributes to the bigger picture of human flourishing, through a collage of science and philosophy, richly illustrated by the authors' own experience and personal reflection. They survey the territory of fundamental physics, machine learning, philosophy of
human identity, evolutionary biology, miracles, arguments from design, naturalism, the history of ideas, and more. The natural world can be appreciated not only for itself, but also as an eloquent gesture, a narrative and a pointer beyond itself. Our human journey is not to a theorem or a treatise,
but to a meeting which encompasses all our capacities. In this meeting, science is the way to find out about the structure of the physical world of which we are a part, not a means to reduce ourselves and our fellow human beings to mere objects of scrutiny, and still less to attempt the utterly
futile exercise of trying to do that to God. We have intellectual permission to be open to the notion that God can be trusted and known. The material world encourages an open-hearted reaching out to something more, with a freedom to seek and to be received by what lies beyond the scope of purely
impersonal descriptions and attitudes.