Issues in Science and Religion

by Ian G. Barbour

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061315664
• ISBN13: 9780061315664
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 470 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Doesn't disappoint

Mother Teresa received the Templeton prize in 1973 and Billy Graham in 1982. The reputation of these other two recipients gives us some idea of what one should expect when Ian Barbour also received the prize (in religious circles, routinely compared to the Nobel) in 1999. Neither an apology, nor a barbed polemic, just a well-thought out comparison of science and religion by a scholar who holds a doctorate in physics (from University of Chicago), a bachelors of divinity (from Yale), and has for decades remained a faculty member in good-standing at Carleton College (Northfield, Minnesota) (a liberal arts college ranked 5 out of at least a 100 by the folks at U.S. News and World Reports--for comparison--Bowdoin was 7, Colby 22, and Bates 24). Anyway, this is a wonderful book by a University-level professor who writes as objectively about religion as he does about science. Quite amazing.