| A User's Guide to Our Present World Contributor(s): Gruning, Herb (Author), Toombs, Bruce (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1725293021 ISBN-13: 9781725293021 Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers OUR PRICE: $36.90 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Religion & Science - Science | Physics - General |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 9" (0.92 lbs) 182 pages |
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| Publisher Description: The reader is about to embark on a journey of discovery and perhaps even reckoning. Religion and science have been understood as inherently at odds and inimical toward each other. However, both employ metaphor: religion when it calls the spirit descending upon Jesus a dove, science when it describes electrons as a current flowing through a wire, for only fluids flow and electrons are not a fluid. Both use myths: some religions in the sense that there was a Golden Age of humans in a garden, science when it promises unlimited progress. Both enlist hypothetical entities: some religions when a storm heralds that the gods are angry, science with the existence of a vacuum and a frictionless surface. And each bears its fundamentalist contingent: just observe a debate between creationists and evolutionists and the zeal and fervor with which the Bible and Darwin must be defended at any cost, no matter what. Given all this, it becomes readily apparent that religion and science display more in common than was once expected. And that is precisely what is in peril in the following pages--our expectations. May the intrepid traveler benefit from the voyage. |