Science, Religion, and the Human Experience
in we trust 107 Aronson, Elliot. “The Theory of Cognitive Dissonance: The Evolution and Vicissitudes of an Idea.” InThe Message ...
108 theory Toulmin, Stephen Edelston.Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity.Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. Webe ...
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6 Science, Religion, Metaphor, and History Jeffrey Burton Russell Universe and Cosmos Massive wounds have been torn in the cosmo ...
112 cosmos physical explanations. Such a universe has intrinsic order and meaning. We have no certain knowledge whether the univ ...
science, religion, metaphor, and history 113 Cosmos is made out of concepts. Concepts are intellectually and socially constructe ...
114 cosmos words: a word does not have a single meaning through spacetime but has developed and will continue to develop. Words ...
science, religion, metaphor, and history 115 Concepts also vary along a spectrum from concrete to abstract and from simple to co ...
116 cosmos the Bible, and the other is the Book of Nature. The two, far from being incom- patible, are both given us for our und ...
science, religion, metaphor, and history 117 then-current ideas of philosophy and theology: Dante’sParadiso, the least ap- preci ...
118 cosmos tween science and religion, is vastly more complex and nuanced than usually believed. The problem for Galileo’s oppon ...
science, religion, metaphor, and history 119 mutable category “physicist” into which individuals in history may be loaded, espec ...
120 cosmos theologians. However, some theologians created a problem. Assuming first that the Bible is without error and second t ...
science, religion, metaphor, and history 121 rial explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the ...
122 cosmos cognitive act of originality, by which we alter our way of structuring reality.”^25 Thus metaphor is as important to ...
science, religion, metaphor, and history 123 by opening things up. Varieties of language (“dictions”) are necessary to ex- press ...
124 cosmos is the use of words denoting one kind of object, action, or idea in place of another in order to suggest a deeper mea ...
science, religion, metaphor, and history 125 fail, since the direction of the steps will be unknown. Without an idea of where we ...
126 cosmos Press, 1972), 8; Hilary Putnam,Representation and Reality(Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1988), 19–20. For widely vari ...
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