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  1. Ibid., 261. Gould here quotes Walcott’s letter, dated January 7, 1926, to R. B.
    Fosdick.

  2. Ibid.

  3. Advocates of the right and/or duty of scientists to critique religion will not
    respond positively to Gould’s theory. Cf. Thomas W. Clark, “Faith, Science and the
    Soul: On the Pragmatic Virtues of Naturalism,”Humanist53 (May–June 1993): 7–12.

  4. David Bohm,Quantum Theory(London: Constable and Company, 1951),



  5. Ibid., 147.

  6. Richard Schlegel, “Quantum Physics and Human Purpose,”Zygon8 (1973):
    200–220.

  7. Michael Riordan, “Three Roads to Quantum Gravity: Space-Time Is of the
    Essence,”The New York Times, August 19, 2001. I wish to thank my former student,
    John Thatamanil, now professor at Vanderbilt Divinity School, for bringing this re-
    view to my attention.

  8. Lee Smolin,Three Roads to Quantum Gravity(New York: Basic Books, 2001),



  9. Ibid., 53.

  10. Ibid., 176.

  11. Ibid., 178.

  12. F. H. Bradley,Appearance and Reality A Metaphysical Essay, 2nd ed. (Oxford:
    Clarendon Press, 1893), 521.

  13. A. C. Ewing,Idealism: A Critical Survey(New York: The Humanities Press,
    1934), 187.

  14. Brand Blanshard,The Nature of Thought,The Muirhead Library of Philoso-
    phy (New York: Macmillan, 1940), 2: 454.

  15. Ibid., 431.

  16. Charles Hartshorne,Man’s Vision of God and the Logic of Theism(New York:
    Harper and Row, [1941] 1984), 238.

  17. Alfred North Whitehead,Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology, eds. Da-
    vid Ray Griffin and Donald W. Sherburne (New York: The Free Press, 1978), 79.

  18. Hans Urs von Balthasar,Theo-drama: Theological Dramatic Theory,trans. Gra-
    ham Harrison (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1988), 1: 17ff.

  19. Daisetz Suzuki, “The Awakening of a New Consciousness in Zen,”Eranos-
    Jahrbuch(Zurich: Rheim-Verlag, 1955), 285.

  20. Hans Frei,The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative: A Study in Eighteenth and Nine-
    teenth Century Hermeneutics(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974), 10.

  21. Ibid., 87.

  22. Burbidge is still using the idea of “reality” in his recent book, coauthored
    with Fred Hoyle and J. V. Narlikar, entitled,A Different Approach to Cosmology: From a
    Static Universe through the Big Bang towards Reality(Cambridge: Cambridge University
    Press, 2000).

  23. Bohm,Quantum, 49.

  24. Alfred North Whitehead,Science and the Modern World, Lowell Lectures 1925
    (New York: The Free Press, [1925] 1967), 192.

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