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Review of Margaret Wertheim, The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace, W. W. Norton and Co. (1999) Introduction The “Pearly Gates of Cyberspace” is a series of insightful reflections on the notion of space in the Western tradition, a notion that has found expression in our own times as the ubiquitous cyberspace, weighty in its enormous impacts…
In day-to-day life, there all kinds of non-zero-sum games that people play. Robert Wright sees this as “the secret of life.”
1. Recently there have been some expressions of disappointment at Huston Smith’s assertions in his latest book to the effect that those who talk of intelligent design, traditional god, relevance of religion, etc. are kept out by reputable scholars and organizations committed to building bridges between Science and Religion. We have been reminded by a…
I raise concerns about his vision of a loving God and a metaphysics of the future because I believe these concerns point out weaknesses in his otherwise sound and beneficial proposal.
I have been deeply indebted to Huston Smith over the years for his books and films, which I have used in many of my classes. I first came to know him 35 years ago in a group that met for several years for a weekend of discussion on science and religion. I edited some of…
It is odd how certain books can be turning points. I can think of three Rwhich have created turning points in my understanding of science and religion. The first was The Genesis Flood which convinced me in 1971 that Creationism was a serious issue. People in Britain laughed. The next was the Sea of Faith…
The process metaphysics David Ray Griffin endorses supposes that the avenues for overcoming conflicts between science and religion are the adoption of a minimal naturalism by science and the adoption of a naturalistic theism by religion.
The advent of Michael Behe’s book Darwin‘s Black Box was probably one of the most provocative manuscripts to entice scholars in the philosophy of biology community and those in the science and religion dialogue to revisit intelligent design. William Dembski provides a kind of sequel to Behe’s controversial but respectable work with his new book…
review of Robert Pennock’s book “The Tower of Babel.” In criticizing Phillip Johnson’s “intelligent design creationism,” Robert Pennock raises a particularly worrisome legal consequence of Johnson’s view. According to Pennock, Johnson insists “that science admit the reality of supernatural influences in the daily workings of the world.” But what if the same reasoning that Johnson…
Review of Robert Rosen’s book Life Itself by Sarah Voss About half a year ago a book called Life Itself (Columbia University Press, 1991) by Robert Rosen came to my attention, and I have been reading and rereading it ever since. Rosen, who died in December, 1998, was a student of Nicholas Rashevsky and a…