Wrestling with Nature From Omens to Science

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Karl Giberson and Mariano Artigas, Oracles of Science: Celebrity Scientists versus God and
Religion (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007). For the use of religious metaphors,
see, for example, Stephen W. Hawking, A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black
Holes (New York: Bantam Books, 1998), 175; Steven Weinberg, Dreams of a Final Theory
(New York: Pantheon Books, 1992), 242.



  1. Edward O. Wilson, On Human Nature (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
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  2. Nancey Murphy, Theology in the Age of Scientifi c Reasoning (Ithaca, NY: Cornell
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    ence and the Rationality of Religious Belief (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990).

  3. John Polkinghorne, One World: The Interaction of Science and Theology (Prince-
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    NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994), 5; John Polkinghorne, Belief in God in an Age of
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    New Physics (1983; New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984), ix, 229. See also A. R. Peacocke,
    Science and the Christian Experiment (London: Oxford University Press, 1971), 5; Arthur
    Peacocke, Theology for a Scientifi c Age: Being and Becoming—Natural, Divine and Human,
    rev. ed. (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1993), 21.

  4. National Academy of Sciences, Working Group on Teaching Evolution, Teach-
    ing About Evolution and the Nature of Science (Washington DC: National Academy Press,
    1998), 58; Stephen Jay Gould, “Nonoverlapping Magisteria,” Natural History 106
    (March 1997): 19; Stephen Jay Gould, Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of
    Life (New York: Ballantine, 1999), 92.

  5. Don Cupitt, The Sea of Faith (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984), 79,

  6. See also Nicholas Lash, “Production and Prospect: Refl ections on Christian Hope
    and Original Sin,” in Evolution and Creation, ed. Ernan McMullin (Notre Dame, IN:
    University of Notre Dame Press, 1985), 278–79; Steven Goldberg, Seduced by Science:
    How American Religion Has Lost Its Way (New York: New York University Press, 1999), 1;
    and George A. Lindbeck, The Nature of Doctrine: Religion and Theology in a Postliberal Age
    (Philadelphia, PA: Westminster Press, 1984), 69.

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