How to Relate Science and Religion

Today there are two very different views concerning the relation of science and religion. On the one hand is the view that there is no limit to the competency of science, including its ability to subsume the traditional domains of religion and values. On the other hand is the view that science ought to itself be shaped in a significant way by religion. In this book these opposing views are presented, critically discussed, and replaced with a badly needed conciliatory model of science and religion. Written by Templeton Prize-winner Mikael Stenmark, How to Relate Science and Religion points an exciting way forward in the effort to reconcile what are arguably the two most powerful cultural forces of our time. Stenmark succinctly lays out the central issues of the debate and shows what is at stake for the nature and advancement of human knowledge. The outcome of Stenmark´s work is the construction of a "multidimensional model" of science and religion that refuses to automatically prioritize either. Stenmark shows the ongoing though shifting value of both science and religion played out as a dynamic, evolving relationship.Introduction # Contemporary Darwinism and Religion Scientific Restrictionism Scientific Expansionism Three Science-Religion Views # The Social Dimension of Science and Religion The Learning Process and the Place of Authority Individual and Collective Practices The Plurality of Practices # The Goals of Science and Religion Epistemic and Practical Goals Personal and Collective Goals Manifest and Latent Goals # The Epistemologies of Science and Religion Scientific Evidentialism and Doubting Thomas Science and Religion as Different Language-Games Is Belief in God a (Scientific) Hypothesis? # Rationality in Science, Theology, and Religion A Postfoundational Model of Rationality Problems with Postfoundational Rationality Scientific and Theological Rationality Reconsidered Religious Rationality # Theological Pragmatism and Religious Rationality Disagreements about Rationality Theological Pragmatism # The Inquiries of Science and Religion: Overlapping Concerns? Science and a Personal Conception of God Biology, Religion, and Ultimate Meaning # A Science Shaped by Religion Worldview-Neutral and Worldview-Partisan Science Religious Expansionism Ideological Expansionism # Should Religion Shape Science? What Is Science? Worldviews and Science1,Science2, and Science4 Worldviews and the Justification Phase of Science # How to Relate Science and Religion Five Science-Religion Views A Multidimensional Typology of Science and Religion Bibliography