The war of the Jesus and Darwin fishes : religion and science in the postmodern world / John C. Caiazza
- Bib ID:
- 4082406
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Caiazza, John
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- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, 2007
- x, 178 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9780765803801
- Summary:
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"This volume's title stems from an observable and seemingly amusing phenomenon - the placement of fish symbols on the rear of automobiles. There are two kinds: one a fish outline with a cross, exhibited by Christians: the other a fish outline filled with the word "evolution," with little legs attached underneath. These symbols manifest the cultural war between religion and science, a clash that draws from nineteenth-century conflicts over evolution roots in the Enlightenment."
"Today's cultural environment is a result of the internationalization of communication, labor, money, and commerce. This global culture emphasizes tolerance and acceptance of all peoples and traditions, but it also demands a moral and intellectual relativism that rejects "master narratives," including religious tradition as well as scientific theory. In some respects, the postmodern environment is caused by science itself, by the development of postmodern science, its nineteenth-century adversarial stance toward religion now somewhat softened."
"The conflict between science and religion is being resolved in the form of a dynamic. Religion and science are both ways of giving moral and intellectual order to the universe, enabling mankind to cope with a chaotic universe and live well. Both religious critics and scientific researchers have attacked and analyzed pornography, which has become a prominent characteristic of our culture. Both share contemporary sensitivity to individual opinions and protection of the individual from social control. Both science and religion share a sense that postmodern culture lacks structure. John Caiazza shows how renewed attention to religious and scientific insights can resolve longstanding conflicts, providing postmodern society with vision of tolerable order."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Introduction: The war of the Jesus and Darwin fishes
- Religion and science in the postmodern world
- The postmodern world
- Sources of the on-going conflict
- Shifting grounds of the "war" between religion and science
- The fog of war
- The reductive temptation
- Kuhn's new history of science
- Galileo's enduring career
- Why the physicists speak of God
- The dissolving gene
- How evolution came from outer space
- Evolutionary psychology and the inevitability of religious belief
- The agony of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Scientific technology is the return of magic
- The dynamic relation between religion and science
- Comparative religion and scientific law
- Dynamic relation of religion and science in the postmodern world
- Conclusion: A vision of tolerable order.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- 2007
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