Preface / vii
Introduction to the 2006 Edition. Human Uniqueness and Human Responsibility: Science and Religion in a New Millennium / xi
An Open Future / xii
Matter, Energy, Information / xiv
Genetics: Past, Present, and Future / xviii
Human Uniqueness: Brain, Mind, Culture / xxiv
Mind Knowing Nature: Realism and Social Construction / xxxi
Science and Conscience / xxxv
Historical and Cruciform Nature: Life Persisting in Perishing / xxxix
Chapter 1. Methods in Scientific and Religious Inquiry / 1
Theories, Creeds, and Experience / 1
Models, Patterns, Paradigms / 8
Objectivity and Involvement / 16
Scientific and Religious Logic / 22
Chapter 2. Matter: Religion and the Physical Sciences / 33
Newtonian Mechanism / 34
Quantum Mechanics and Indeterminacy / 41
Relativity and Matter-Energy / 54
Microphysical and Astrophysical Nature / 65
Chapter 3. Life: Religion and the Biological Sciences / 81
Biochemistry and the Secret of Life / 82
Evolution and the Secret of Life / 90
The Cybernetics of Life / 124
The Life Struggle / 133
Chapter 4. Mind: Religion and the Psychological Sciences / 151
The Possibility of a Human Science / 151
Religion and Freudian Psychoanalysis / 159
Religion and Behavioral Science 170
Religion and Humanistic Psychologies / 183
Chapter 5. Culture: Religion and the Social Sciences / 198
Society and the Individual: Models, Laws, Causes / 200
Interpretive Social Science / 210
Religion as a Social Projection / 219
Values in Social Science / 226
Chapter 6. Nature and History / 238
Nature after Science / 238
Hard Naturalism / 247
Soft Naturalism / 253
Eastern Perspectives / 258
The Dimension of History / 269
Suffering / 286
Chapter 7. Nature, History, and God / 297
Nature and Supernature / 298
Scientific-Existentialist Theism / 306
Process Theism / 315
Transscientific Theism / 322
Insight in Science and Religion: Doing the Truth / 335
Index / 349
