Index

Index

Age of Reason,

,

Alpher, Ralph,

analogies, use of, –16,

,

–166,

–175,

• choice,

  

• and doctrine of creation,

  

  –166
• interpretation,

  

• limitations,

  

• religious,

  

  –163
• scientific,

  

  –157
• soteriological,

  

• see also analogy of being

analogy of being, ,

–160

Anselm of Canterbury, ,

• Proslogion,

Arabic intellectuals, medieval,

,

, , –115

Aristotle,

,

,

–51, ,

• rediscovery of,

  

• Christian critiques of,

  

• influence on natural sciences,

  

  ,

  

  ,

Arrhenius, August, Worlds in the Making,

Athanasius of Alexandria,

atheism,

, –109, ,

• apologists,

  

• non‐rational beliefs,
• scientific, , , , ,

atomic theory,

–148

• models,

  

  ,

  

  ,

  

  –148
• and realism, ,

atonement, Christian doctrine of,

,

–169

Augustine of Hippo,

,

,

• challenge to Aristotle,

  

• on divine creation, , –125,
• On the Trinity, –195

Ayala, Francisco,

,

Bacon, Francis,

Bailer‐Jones, Daniela,

–146

Behe, Michael, Darwin’s Black Box,

biblical creation accounts, ,

,

• and Darwinism,

  

  ,

  

  –49
• image of God concept, –195, ,

biblical interpretation, developments in,

,

,

–34,

–37

• accommodation,

  

  ,

  

  –36,

  

• allegorical,

  

  –34
• and the Copernican controversy,

  

• creation see biblical creation accounts
• and the Galileo controversy,

  

• literal,

  

  ,

  

  ,

  

  ,

  

• Noah’s flood,

  

  ,

  

• Protestant see under Protestant Christianity
• theoretical models,

  

  ,

  

• young earth,

  

  –49

‘big bang’ theory,

–53,

• and the kalam argument, –103
• and Christian narratives of creation,

  

  , ,
• development of,

  

  –52
• and the mutiverse, ,

black holes,

,

Bohr, Niels,

Bossuet, Jacques‐Bénigne,

Boyle, Robert, ,

Brahe, Tycho,

,

British Association for the Advancement of Science,

–23

• Oxford debate (1860),

  

  –27, –181

British Broadcasting Corporation,

Broglie, Louis de, ,

Brooke, John Hedley,

–21

Brower, Jeffrey,

Brunner, Emil,

Buffon, Georges,

Calvin, John,

–35,

• contribution to natural sciences,

  

• Institutes of the Christian Religion,

‘catastrophe’ theories,

–45,

Catholic Christianity,

,

–37,

• analogy of being,

  

• doctrine of unchangeability,

  

• in the United States,

Chalmers, Thomas,

Charles, Jacques,

Christianity, divisions within, ,

• Catholic see Catholic Christianity
• Protestant see Protestant Christianity

Ciampoli, Giovanni,

,

complementarity, principle of,

Copernican revolution,

,

–33,

Copernicus, Nicolas,

,

,

• On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies,

  

  ,

cosmology,

,

–32,

,

–54

• and arguments for the existence of God, –101
• atheistic,

  

• inductive approach to,
• multiverse see multiverse, concept of
• and science–religion dialogue,
• and traditional Christian view of creation,

  

• see also solar system, models of

Coyne, Jerry,

creation, Christian doctrine of,

, ,

• as causation,

  

• contrasted with Greek thought,
• ex nihilo, ,

  

  ,

  

  ,
• human role in, –196
• influence on natural sciences, –135
• models of,

  

  –167
• and narrative,
• as ordering of nature,

  

  –165
• Trinitarian,
• see also biblical creation accounts

creationism, ,

–49,

• conflict with science,

critical realism, , ,

–163

• see also scientific realism

Darwinism, ,

,

• and biblical creation accounts,

  

  ,

  

• metaphysical,
• nineteenth‐century controversy,

  

  –27,

  

  –44,

  

  ,

deism,

–42

• and Newtonian mechanics,

  

• notion of divine action, –113
• spread of,

  

• static worldview,

  

Dembski, William A., Intelligent Design,

Dise, Nancy,

divine action, concept of,

, –121,

• biblical accounts,
• indeterminacy,
• through laws of nature, –113
• Newtonian,
• and problem of evil, –117
• process see process thought
• Thomist,
• and the ‘unmoved mover’,

divine economy, concept of,

–162

Dixon, Thomas,

Draper, John William, History of the Conflict between Religion and Science, ,

Dyson, Freeman, ‘The Scientist as Rebel’,

,

early modern period,

• laws of nature concept, ,
• mathematics,
• science,

  

• view of miracles, –13

Edwards, Jonathan, ,

Einstein, Albert, , ,

• ethics, –180,
• gravitational theories,

  

  ,
• model of photoelectric effect,

  

  –153
• on mystery,

  

  ,
• and quantum theory, –123
• religious belief,
• theory of relativity see relativity, general theory of

electrons, behaviour of,

–148,

,

,

• inference from,
• and light,

  

  –153

Enlightenment,

• dislike of metaphor,

  

  ,

  

• as paradigm shift,
• rationalism,

epistemology, –68,

• and assumptions,
• and ontology,
• pluralism,
• universal, –68

evolution, theory of,

–22, ,

• as basis for ethics, –182
• Christian response to,

  

  ,

  

  –48,
•  see also evolutionary theism
• development by Darwin,

  

  –46,
• Lamarck on,

  

• predictability,
• and process thought,
• and suffering,
• view of humanity,

  

  –48,

  

  –171,
• weaknesses,

  

  ,
• see also evolutionary biology; evolutionary debunking arguments; natural selection, theory of

evolutionary biology, , ,

,

• methodology,
• and teleology, –207

evolutionary theism,

–50

extinctions,

, ,

• fossil evidence for,

  

• significance for natural selection,

Farrer, Austin, ,

Foscarini, Paolo Antonio, Letter on the Opinion of the Pythagoreans and Copernicus,

fossils,

,

,

Friedman, Alexander,

Freud, Sigmund,

, , –212

• atheism,
• and psychogenesis,
• study of obsession,
• theory of repression, –211
• writings
  • Future of an Illusion, ,
  • Interpretation of Dreams,
  • Moses and Monotheism,
  • Psychopathology of Everyday Life,
  • Totem and Taboo, ,

Galapagos Islands,

,

Galileo Galilei, ,

,

• and Aristotelian ideas,

  

  ,

  

• controversy with papacy, ,

  

  ,

  

  –25,

  

  –37
• on mathematics, –199
• and mountains of the moon,

  

  –155
• writings
  • Letter to the Grand Countess Christina,

    

  • Starry Messenger,

    

    –155

Geiger, Hans,

,

Gnosticism,

Godfrey‐Smith, Peter,

–144,

Gore, Charles,

Grant, Edward,

Gregory the Great,

Harrison, Peter,

,

,

,

Heisenberg, Werner, , ,

–170

Herman, Robert,

hermeneutics,

• see also biblical interpretation, developments in

Herschel, John,

Hertz, Heinrich,

Hinshelwood, Cyril,

Hobbes, Thomas,

,

Hoyle, Fred,

Hubble, Edwin,

Hume, David,

,

• on causation,
• critique of miracles, –123
• inductive reasoning,
• influence of, ,
• on Paley,
• Treatise of Human Nature,

Hutton, James,

Huxley, Thomas H.,

,

, –97, –181

• ‘Evolution and Ethics’ lecture,

Huygens, Christiaan,

Ian Ramsey Centre, Oxford,

Institute for Creation Research,

Intelligent Design movement,

James, William, , , ,

, ,

• Varieties of Religious Experience, The, –210

Judaism, ,

,

,

Kepler, Johann,

–33,

• discovery of elliptical orbits,

  

  , –80
• Harmonies of the World, ,

Khayyam, Omar,

kinetic model of gases,

–150

language,

• anthropomorphic, –206
• cultural aspects,

  

• limitations of,

  

• metaphorical, , –206
• religious,

  

  ,

  

  , ,

  

  ,

  

• see also metaphor, use of

Leland, John, The Principal Deistic Writers,

Lenard, Philipp,

light, nature of,

–153

• analogy with sound,

  

  –152
• as particle,

  

  ,

  

• photons,

  

  ,

  

• as wave,

  

  ,

  

Linnaeus, Carl,

Locke, John, Essay Concerning Human Understanding,

Lovell, Bernard,

Lyell, Charles,

• Principles of Geology,

  

  –45

Marcel, Gabriel,

Marsden, Ernst,

,

mathematics, ,

, , –199

• geometry,
• as language, –199
• proof,
• see also anthropic principle

Maximus the Confessor,

McFague, Sallie,

–164

McMullin, Ernan,

,

mechanistic worldview, rise of,

,

–42

medieval science,

–31

• geocentric worldview,

  

• see also natural philosophy

medieval theology,

–34,

• see also individual theologians

metaphors, use of,

• Christian,

  

  –159,

  

  –164
• science–religion interface, –16
• see also analogies, use of

Michelson–Morley experiment,

Mitchell, John,

models, use of,

–175

• choice,

  

• distinct from metaphor,

  

• scientific see scientific models, use of
• theological,

  

  ,

  

  –164,

  

  –175
• see also analogies, use of

Morris, Henry Madison,

• The Long War Against God,

mystery, human response to,

,

–173

Newton, Isaac,

–41,

• and the argument from design,

  

• celestial mechanics,

  

  ,

  

  –40,
• determinism,
• gravitational theories,

  

  , , ,
• and the laws of nature, , –121,
• theology,
• writings:
  • Optics,

    

  • Principia,

Noah’s flood, biblical story of,

,

old earth creationism,

On the Origin of Species (Darwin),

,

,

,

• Christian response to,

  

  –49,
• critiques,

  

  ,

  

  ,

  

• later editions, , ,

  

• natural selection,

  

  ,

  

  , –108,

  

  –156
• see also natural selection, theory of
• Oxford debate on,

  

  –27
• use of analogy,

  

  –157

Origen,

,

Otto, Rudolf, Idea of the Holy,

Paley, William,

,

• on astronomy,
• Darwin’s critique of,

  

  , –82
• Dawkins’ critique of,

  

  –47, , –204
• influence of,
• Natural Theology,

  

  –43, –108,
• on pain and suffering,
• watchmaker concept, –106, ,

Peacocke, Arthur,

• critical realism, ,

  

• on divine action,
• on downward causation,
• on evolution,
• on models,

  

  –163,

  

Penzias, Arno,

photoelectric effect,

physics,

,

,

• anthropic principle see anthropic principle
• classical,

  

  , ,

  

• experimental,
• laws of,
• and mathematics,
• and mystery,

  

• philosophies of, ,
• reductionism, ,
• subatomic,
• theoretical,

  

Picard, Jean,

Planck, Max, , ,

Plato, Timaeus,

Pope, Alexander,

Protestant Christianity,

• biblical interpretation,

  

  ,

  

• see also Reformation, Protestant

Przywara, Erich,

Ptolemy, Claudius,

,

• Amalgest,

  

  –32

radioactivity, discovery of,

–147

Ramsey, Ian T.,

–162

• Christian Discourse,

  

• Models and Mystery,

  

• Religious Language,

  

Ray, John, Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of Creation,

Rea, Michael,

relativity, general theory of,

, –79,

• and falsificationism,
• predictive ability,

Rheticus, G. J., Treatise on Holy Scripture and the Motion of the Earth,

Royal Society of London,

Rufinus of Aquileia,

–169

Russell, Bertrand,

, ,

• Problems of Philosophy, The,

Russell, Colin,

,

Rutherford, Ernest,

,

–148,

Ryder, Richard,

Sayers, Dorothy L., The Mind of the Maker,

–166,

Schofield Reference Bible,

scientific method, nature of, ,

, –69,

• assumptions, –135
• counterintuitivity, –218
• hypothesis generation,
• inductive reasoning, , , ,
• inference see under inference
• logic of discovery, ,
• logic of justification, –78
• models see scientific models, use of
• and moral values, –180
• and mystery,

  

• observation, objectivity of, –91,
• paradigm shifts, ,
• realism see scientific realism
• theory evaluation/modification, –81, –89, –98,
• and teleology, –207
• see also proof, ambiguity of

scientific models, use of,

,

–157

• choice,

  

• comparison with religious models,

  

  –175
• limitations,

  

• risk of misunderstanding,

  

  –150,

  

  –156
• as simplification,

  

  ,

  

  ,

  

• see also individual scientific models

scientific realism, –59, ,

–163

Sidgewick, Isabella,

Singer, Peter,

solar system, models of,

–33, , –91

• adaptation to atomic theory,

  

• geocentric,

  

  –32,

  

  ,

  

• heliocentric,

  

  ,

  

  –34,

  

  –36, –64

Soskice, Janet Martin,

speciesism,

Spranzi, Marta,

standard cosmological model,

,

–53

‘steady state’ theory,

–53

Strasbourg, cathedral clock of,

–41

sub‐atomic particles, ,

• electrons see electrons, behaviour of
• see also atomic theory

teleology,

,

• argument from see teleological argument
• in biology, –205
• and natural selection,

  

  –46, , –204

telescopes,

–154

• compared with human eye,
• importance of, , ,

  

• limitations,

  

  –154
• moon observations,

  

theism, classical,

,

• explanatory capacity, –75,

Thirty Years War,

Thomas Aquinas,

, ,

• analogy of being,

  

• ‘Five Ways’ see ‘Five Ways’ of Thomas Aquinas
• influence of see Thomism
• on miracles,
• writings
  • Summa contra Gentiles, ,

    

  • Summa Theologiae, , ,

    

Thomson, J. J.,

,

Thomson, William, 1st Baron Kelvin,

Tindal, Matthew, Christianity as Old as Creation,

Trinity, doctrine of,

,

–173,

Turner, Frank,

–28

Tycho’s supernova,

uniformitarianism,

–45

universe, age of,

–53,

• Lambda‐CDM model,

  

  ,

universities, medieval,

University of Padua,

,

van Till, Howard,

von Soldner, Johann Georg,

Wallace, Alfred Russell,

watchmaker, God as,

–41, –106

• and deism,

  

  , –113

Weinandy, Thomas,

Weinberg, Steven,

White, Andrew Dickson, History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom, ,

Wilberforce, Samuel,

• demonization of,

  

  –27
• review of Origin of Species,

  

Wilson, Robert,

Wood, William,

Wright, Edward,

Young earth creationism,

–49

Young, Thomas,

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