Wrestling with Nature From Omens to Science

250 Kline Andrey A. Potter, “Engineering Education,” Mechanical Engineering 52 (1930): 504. William E. Wickenden, “The Social S ...

Science and Technology 251 science and technology in the 1930s and 1940s, see Carroll Pursell, “Government and Technology in the ...

252 Kline Gene M. Nordby and Robert N. Faiman, “Engineering Sciences—Still Another Look,” Journal of Engineering Education 48 ( ...

253 In recent years the effort to arrive at an understanding of the relationship between science and religion has generated enor ...

254 Roberts THE PREHISTORY OF “SCIENCE AND RELIGION” It was not always so. Indeed, prior to about the middle of the nineteenth c ...

Science and Religion 255 ain and North America, the geographical foci of this chapter, remained extremely porous well into the n ...

256 Roberts the supernatural in discussing natural phenomena. What later came to be called “methodological naturalism” emerged a ...

Science and Religion 257 Harris, who had contended in 1852 that study of the natural world was “interlinked at every point with ...

258 Roberts promulgation of the “Syllabus of Errors” (1864) and the doctrine of papal infallibility (1869), led Draper to throw ...

Figure 10.1. Keyword search of the Online Catalogue for the Library of Congress for books in English, “Religion and Science,” 18 ...

260 Roberts physical world speaks according to the appearances of things and the cur- rent ideas of the times.” Acceptance of a ...

Science and Religion 261 ena, the task of actually explaining them—of uncovering the “Supreme Effi ciency” that actually “lies a ...

262 Roberts Immanuel Kant, who had located the wellsprings of faith in a sense of con- tingency, or dependence, or in the posses ...

Science and Religion 263 organisation of the facts of the religious consciousness,” those behavioral scientists concluded that i ...

264 Roberts entists on one side and partisans of dogmatic theology on the other. Still, the distinction that he made between doc ...

Science and Religion 265 that he embraced as “the use of the methods of modern science to fi nd, state and use the permanent and ...

266 Roberts to become more scientifi c and more philosophical through attention to all, instead of to some, of the facts.”^26 If ...

Science and Religion 267 ultimate metaphysical questions. Most proponents of the notion that sci- ence and religion occupied “se ...

268 Roberts were quite different. For example, Donald D. Evans, an infl uential profes- sor of philosophy at the University of T ...

Science and Religion 269 with the whole of reality” and thus incorporate the revelations of science within its purview. William ...