The human quest; a new look at science and the Christian faith

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I. A look at some questions -- Three basic questions -- Has science made religious faith impossible -- questions asked in objection to Christian faith -- Evidence against Christian faith: the Church -- A look at some answers -- Two general theses relating science and Christian faith -- Summary -- Topics for discussion -- -- II. The pattern of history -- Explanation in terms of purpose -- Galileo's new sciences -- the Newtonian world machine -- The romantic reaction -- Two philosophical positions -- The Darwinian revolution -- Modern theology and philosophy -- Summary -- Topics for discussion -- -- III. If this is what science is like -- Some definitions -- The purpose of science -- Faith and science -- Adjectives describing science -- The scientific model -- Philosophical attitudes toward science -- Summary -- Topics for discussion -- -- IV. And if this is what Christian faith is like -- Some definitions -- theology -- the Christian faith -- the purpose of religious faith -- Adjectives describing Christian faith -- Theological models and analogies -- Philosophical attitudes toward theology -- Summary -- Topics for discussion -- -- V. Are they really exclusively different -- Objective facts versus subjective judgments -- Rational versus non-rational attitudes -- Empirical evidence versus interpretation based only on faith -- Objective independence versus personal commitment -- Summary -- Topics for discussion -- -- VI. What do science and Christian faith say about each other -- Classical arguments for the existence of God -- Arguments for the existence of God from the natural world -- Arguments from science against the Christian position -- Miracles -- Is the Bible a scientific book -- But which has the priority -- Science and the Bible: mutual aids in interpretation -- Can science demonstrate the reality of Christian faith -- Is there a Christian philosophy of science -- Summary -- Topics for discussion -- -- VII. The structure of the world -- What is this structure -- The parts and the whole -- The systems concept -- Questioning some popular discontinuities -- Is this only baptized materialism -- Is man only a complex machine -- Summary -- Topics for discussion -- -- VIII. Determinism in classical physics -- Quantum mechanics and indeterminacy -- Complementarity -- Psychological determinism -- Cultural of social determinism -- theological determinism -- Summary -- Topics for discussion -- -- IX. The evolution controversy -- why is Evolution considered such a threat -- Key concepts in Evolutionary thinking -- Age of the earth -- Scientific study of origins -- Beginning of life and spirit -- Human Evolution; the general theory -- Teilhard de Chardin -- Am interpretation of Genesis 1-3 -- Summary -- Topics for discussion -- -- X. Social implication -- The crisis of human society -- Whatever happened to scientific prestige -- The dilemma of the Church -- Man come of age -- The population explosion and birth control -- Environmental problems -- Is there a Christian economic system -- Racism -- Violence and war -- Situation ethics -- Anti-Intellectualism: the modern romantic rebellion -- Science as service -- Summary -- Topics for discussion.