by Thomas Dixon
Peter Machamer (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Galileo (Cambridge, 1998).
Stephen Mason, ‘Galileo’s Scientific Discoveries, Cosmological Confrontations, and the Aftermath’, History of Science, 40 (2002), pp. 377–406.
Ernan McMullin (ed.), The Church and Galileo (Notre Dame, 2005).
Realism, philosophy, and science
Ian Hacking, Representing and Intervening (Cambridge, 1983).
Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 3rd edition (Chicago and London, 1996); first published 1962.
Peter Lipton, Inference to the Best Explanation, 2nd edition (London, 2004).
Richard Rorty, Philosophy and Social Hope (London, 1999).
Bas van Fraassen, The Scientific Image (Oxford, 1980).
Realism and theology
Colin Crowder (ed.), God and Reality: Essays on Christian Non-Realism (London, 1997).
Don Cupitt, Taking Leave of God (London, 1980).
Michael Scott and Andrew Moore (eds), Realism and Religion: Philosophical and Theological Perspectives (Aldershot, 2007).
Janet Soskice, Metaphor and Religious Language (Oxford, 1985).
Chapter 3
Lourdes
Ruth Harris, Lourdes: Body and Spirit in the Secular Age (London, 1999).
Philosophy of miracles
David Corner, The Philosophy of Miracles (London, 2007).
Mark Corner, Signs of God: Miracles and Their Interpretation (Aldershot, 2005).
History of attitudes to miracles
Robert B. Mullin, Miracles and the Modern Religious Imagination (New Haven and London, 1996).
Jane Shaw, Miracles in Enlightenment England (New Haven and London, 2006).
Hume on miracles
John Earman, Hume’s Abject Failure: The Argument Against Miracles (New York, 2000).
Robert J. Fogelin, A Defense of Hume on Miracles (Princeton, 2003).
God and physics
Philip Clayton, God and Contemporary Science (Edinburgh, 1997).
Paul Davies, The Mind of God: Science and the Search for Ultimate Meaning (London, 1992).
Willem B. Drees, Beyond the Big Bang: Quantum Cosmologies and God (La Salle, 1990).
John Polkinghorne, The Faith of a Physicist (Princeton, 1994), also published as Science and Christian Belief (London, 1994).
Nicholas Saunders, Divine Action and Modern Science (Cambridge, 2002).
Laws of nature
Nancy Cartwright, How the Laws of Physics Lie (Oxford, 1983), and The Dappled World: A Study of the Boundaries of Science (Cambridge, 1999).
John Dupré, The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of Science (Cambridge, MA, 1993).
Bas van Fraassen, Laws and Symmetry (Oxford, 1989).
Quantum physics
George Johnson, Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order (New York, 1995), Chapters 5 and 6.
John Polkinghorne, Quantum Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2002), and Quantum Physics and Theology: An Unexpected Kinship (London, 2007).
Cosmic fine tuning
Paul Davies, The Goldilocks Enigma: Why is the Universe Just Right for Life? (London and New York, 2006).
Rodney D. Holder, God, the Multiverse, and Everything: Modern Cosmology and the Argument from Design (Aldershot, 2004).
Chapter 4
Biographies of Charles Darwin
Janet Browne, Darwin: A Biography, 2 vols (London, 1995, 2002).
Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, ed. Nora Barlow (London, 1958), available online at CWCD.
Adrian Desmond and James Moore, Darwin (London, 1991).
Adrian Desmond, James Moore, and Janet Browne, Charles Darwin (Oxford, 2007).
History of biology
Peter J. Bowler, Evolution: The History of an Idea, 3rd edition (Berkeley and London, 2003), and The Eclipse of Darwinism: Anti-Darwinian Evolution Theories in the Decades around 1900, new edition (Baltimore, 1992).
Jim Endersby, A Guinea Pig’s History of Biology: The Plants and Animals Who Taught Us the Facts of Life (London, 2007).
Darwinism and religion
Craig Baxter, Re: Design, An Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and Others (2007); a dramatization, the script of which is available online at DCP.
Peter J. Bowler, Monkey Trials and Gorilla Sermons: Evolution and Christianity from Darwin to Intelligent Design (Cambridge, MA and London, 2007).
John Hedley Brooke, Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge, 1991), Chapter 8; and ‘Darwin and Victorian Christianity’, in The Cambridge Companion to Darwin, ed. Jonathan Hodge and Gregory Radick (Cambridge, 2003), pp. 192–213.
James Moore, The Post-Darwinian Controversies: A Study of the Protestant Struggle to Come to Terms with Darwin in Great Britain and America, 1870–1900 (Cambridge, 1979), and The Darwin Legend (Grand Rapids, 1994).
Michael Ruse, Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose? (Cambridge, MA, 2003).
Thomas Huxley and Victorian science
Adrian Desmond, Huxley: From Devil’s Disciple to Evolution’s High Priest (London, 1998).
Frank James, ‘An “Open Clash between Science and the Church”? Wilberforce, Huxley and Hooker on Darwin at the British Association, Oxford, 1860’, in Science and Beliefs: From Natural Philosophy to Natural Science, 1700–1900, ed. D. Knight and M. Eddy (Aldershot, 2005), pp. 171–93.
Bernard Lightman (ed.), Victorian Science in Context (Chicago, 1997).
Frank M. Turner, Contesting Cultural Authority: Essays in Victorian Intellectual Life (Cambridge, 1993).
Paul White, Thomas Huxley: Making the ‘Man of Science’ (Cambridge, 2003).
Theology and evolution
Geoffrey Cantor and Marc Swelitz (eds), Jewish Tradition and the Challenge of Darwinism (Chicago, 2006).
John F. Haught, God After Darwin: A Theology of Evolution (Boulder and Oxford, 2000).
Nancey Murphy and William R. Stoeger, SJ (eds), Evolution and Emergence: Systems, Organisms, Persons (Oxford, 2007).
Arthur Peacocke, Theology for a Scientific Age: Being and Becoming – Natural, Divine, and Human, enlarged edition (Minneapolis and London, 1993).
Michael Ruse, Can a Darwinian Be a Christian? The Relationship between Science and Religion (Cambridge and New York, 2001).
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man, with an introduction by Sir Julian Huxley, revised edition (London and New York, 1975); first published in French in 1955.
Chapter 5
Overview
Eugenie C. Scott, Evolution versus Creationism: An Introduction (Westport, 2004).
The Scopes trial
Edward J. Larson, Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate over Science and Religion (New York, 1997).
Fundamentalism and creationism in America
George Marsden, Fundamentalism and American Culture, 2nd edition (New York and Oxford, 2006).
Dorothy Nelkin, The Creation Controversy: Science or Scripture in the Schools? (New York, 1982).
Ronald L. Numbers, The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design, expanded edition (Cambridge, MA and London, 2006).
Christopher P. Toumey, God’s Own Scientists: Creationists in a Secular World (New Brunswick, 1994).
Legal aspects
Langdon Gilkey, Creationism on Trial: Evolution and God at Little Rock (Charlottesville, 1998).
Philip A. Italiano, ‘Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District: The First Judicial Test for Intelligent Design’, Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion, vol. 8.1, Fall 2006, available online at RJLR.
Marcel La Follette (ed.), Creationism, Science, and the Law: The Arkansas Case (Cambridge, MA, 1983).
Edward J. Larson, Trial and Error: The American Controversy over Creation and Evolution, 3rd edition (New York and Oxford, 2003). Stephen A. Newman, ‘Evolution and the Holy Ghost of Scopes: Can
Science Lose the Next
Round?’, Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion, vol. 8.2, Spring 2007, available online at RJLR.
Intelligent Design and its critics
Michael J. Behe, Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution (New York, 1996), and The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism (New York, 2007).
William Dembski and Michael Ruse (eds), Debating Design: From Darwin to DNA (Cambridge, 2004).
Kenneth R. Miller, Finding Darwin’s God: A Scientist’s Search for Common Ground between God and Evolution (New York, 1999).
Randy Olson (writer and director), Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus (Prairie Starfish Productions and G-7 Animation, documentary film, 2006).
Robert T. Pennock (ed.), Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics: Philosophical, Theological, and Scientific Perspectives (Cambridge, MA, 2001).
Philosophical perspectives
David Hull and Michael Ruse (eds), The Philosohpy of Biology (Oxford, 1998), Part X.
Michael Ruse (ed.), But Is It Science? The Philosophical Question in the Creation/Evolution Controversy (Amherst, 1996).
Sahotra Sarkar, Doubting Darwin? Creationist Designs on Evolution (Malden and Oxford, 2007).
Chapter 6
Brain and mind
Antonio Damasio, Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain, revised edition (London, 2006).
John Searle, Mind: A Brief Introduction (Oxford, 2004).
Neuroscience, psychology, and religion
C. Daniel Batson, Patricia Schoenrade, and W. Larry Ventis, Religion and the Individual: A Social-Psychological Perspective (New York and Oxford, 1993).
Warren S. Brown, Nancey Murphy, and H. Newton Malony, Whatever Happened to the Soul? Scientific and Theological Portraits of Human Nature (Minneapolis, 1998).
William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature, centenary edition with introductions by Eugene Taylor and Jeremy Carrette (London and New York, 2002); first published 1902.
Andrew Newberg, Eugene d’Aquili, and Vince Rause, Why God Won’t Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief (New York, 2002).
Fraser Watts, Theology and Psychology (Aldershot, 2002).
Cognitive science and anthropology of religion
Scott Atran, In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion (London and New York, 2002).
Pascal Boyer, Religion Explained: The Human Instincts that Fashion Gods, Spirits and Ancestors (London, 2001).
Steven Mithen, The Prehistory of the Mind: The Search for the Origins of Art, Religion and Science (London, 1996).
Wentzel van Huyssteen, Alone in the World? Human Uniqueness in Science and Theology: The Gifford Lectures (Grand Rapids, 2006).
Evolution and ethics
Stephen R. L. Clark, Biology and Christian Ethics (Cambridge, 2000).
Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (London and New York, 1995).
Frans de Waal, Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved (Princeton and Oxford, 2006).
Thomas Huxley, Evolution and Ethics, and Other Essays, in Collected Essays (London, 1893–4), vol. 9; available online at HF.
Mary Midgley, Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature, new edition (London and New York, 1995).
Matt Ridley, The Origins of Virtue (London, 1996).
Altruism and selfishness
Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene (New York and Oxford, 1976), also available in a revised 1989 edition, and a 30th anniversary edition with a new introduction by the author published in 2006.
Thomas Dixon, The Invention of Altruism: Making Moral Meanings in Victorian Britain (Oxford, 2008).
Stephen G. Post, Lynn G. Underwood, Jeffrey P. Schloss, and William B. Hurlbut (eds), Altruism and Altruistic Love: Science, Philosophy and Religion in Dialogue (Oxford and New York, 2002).
Eliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson, Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior (Cambridge, MA and London, 1998).
Deviance and sexuality
Thomas Laqueur, Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation (New York, 2003).
Roy Porter and Lesley Hall, The Facts of Life: The Creation of Sexual Knowledge in Britain, 1650–1950 (New Haven, 1995).
Jeffrey Weeks, Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800, 2nd edition (London, 1989), and Coming Out: Homosexual Politics in Britain from the Nineteenth Century to the Present, revised edition (London, 1990).
Moore and the naturalistic fallacy
Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, 2nd edition (Notre Dame, 1984).
G. E. Moore, Principia Ethica, edited with an introduction by Thomas Baldwin (Cambridge, 1993); first published 1903.
Science and the future
Stephen R. L. Clark, How to Live Forever: Science Fiction and Philosophy (London and New York, 1995).
Mary Midgley, Science as Salvation: A Modern Myth and Its Meaning (London and New York, 1992), and Evolution as a Religion: Strange Hopes and Stranger Fears, revised edition (London and New York, 2002).
John Polkinghorne and Michael Welker (eds), The End of the World and the Ends of God: Science and Theology on Eschatology (Harrisburg, 2000).
Index
A
Adam and Eve 76–7, 89, 92, 112
Agatha, St 37–8, 39, 54–6
agnosticism 2, 73, 75–6, 84, 89
altruism 115–17, 121–2, 123, 124–5
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) 83
Aristotelian science 23–6, 28–30
Arkansas
anti-evolution laws in 83, 94, 95, 96, 99
atheism 9, 15, 36, 40, 48, 51, 62, 104, 115
Augustine, St 26–7
B
Bacon, Francis 20, 71
Barbour, Ian 14, 15
Beauregard, Mario 109–10
Behe, Michael 80, 81–2, 93
Bellarmine, Robert 27–8
Benedict XVI, Pope (Joseph Ratzinger) 80
Bible 2, 4, 8, 11–12, 18, 21–3, 26–7, 38, 44, 64, 74, 83, 86–96, 112, 118, 119
‘Big Bang’ 51, 52, 99
blood-clotting cascade 82, 98, 100
Boyle, Robert 2, 40, 46
Brahe, Tycho 30
brain
and mind 4, 104, 106–11, 113
and religious experience 16, 104, 109–11
scanning 109–10
see also neuroscience
Brecht, Bertolt
Life of Galileo 12–13
British Association for the Advancement of Science
1860 Oxford meeting 73–6
Broca, Paul 123
Brooke, John Hedley 3
Bryan, William Jennings 84–6, 88–92, 96
Bucaille, Maurice 92–3
C
Cambrian explosion 93, 98
Capra, Fritjof
The Tao of Physics 16
Cartwright, Nancy 48
Catholicism, see Roman Catholic Church
Church and state 3, 11–12, 83, 93–6
Church of England 11–12, 58–9, 60–1, 94
see also Kingsley, Charles; Polkinghorne, John; Temple, Frederick; Wilberforce, Samuel
climate change 125
cognitive science 110–11
Collins, Francis 3, 115
consciousness 104, 105, 110–11
Copernicus, Nicolaus 7–8, 18, 25, 28, 32
see also Galileo Galilei
Coyne, George 82
creationism
in America 2, 9, 81–3, 93–6, 102–3
‘Creation Science’ 22, 90–3, 94–5, 99–101
and Islam 80, 88, 90–3
varieties of 79, 87–93
D
Darrow, Clarence 84, 88–9
Darwin, Charles
Beagle voyage 61, 64–8, 74
on cooperation in nature 115–16, 117
on cruelty in nature 62, 76
deaths of daughter and father
62, 63
The Descent of Man 77, 117
evolution by natural selection 59, 62, 64–71, 73, 77, 79, 97, 115–16
Galapagos islands 66–7, 69
on human evolution 77–8
as an icon of modern science 58–60
