By Arri Eisen,Gary Laderman

ISBN-10: 0765680645

ISBN-13: 9780765680648

This targeted encyclopedia explores the ancient and modern controversies among technological know-how and faith. it really is designed to provide multicultural and multi-religious perspectives, and supply wide-ranging views. "Science, faith, and Society" covers all elements of the faith and technological know-how dichotomy, from humanities to social sciences to typical sciences, and contains articles via theologians, faith students, physicians, scientists, historians, and psychologists, between others. the 1st part, basic Overviews, comprises essays that supply a street map for exploring the key demanding situations and questions in technological know-how and faith. Following this, the ancient views part grounds those significant questions some time past, and demonstrates how they've got constructed into the six vast parts of latest learn and dialogue that keep on with. those sections - production, the Cosmos, and Origins of the Universe; Ecology, Evolution, and the flora and fauna; awareness, brain, and the mind; Healers and therapeutic; death and loss of life; and Genetics and faith - set up the questions and study which are the root of the large curiosity, and controversy, in technological know-how and faith today.

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