Science and Religion. SR 1
Science and Religion
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with Ted Peters
Are science and religion really at war? No. But some think so.
Some religious believers fear that evolutionary theory eliminates biblical accounts of creation and fall.
Some anti-religious critics think that science is more highly evolved. Religion, accordingly, is less highly evolved. Religion, allegedly, is an anachronism embraced only by stupnagels, nincompoops, and bigots.
Many atheists believe that science supports materialism, physicalism, and naturalism. To repudiate religion is to look more scientific.
Are any of these surmises true? Or, are they merely self-serving rationalizations?
Theology is the rational wash that drives religion’s dynamo, generating spiritual power. Theology is defined as “faith seeking understanding” (fides quaarens intellectum).
Today, theological understanding is frequently pursued in partnership with natural science. The founders of modern science–Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton–were deeply committed Christians. The founders of Britian’s Royal Society were largely clergy. There is nothing intrinsic to science that makes it anti-religious.
The idea of a perpetual warfare between religion and science was first introduced in the late 19th century. The historical facts show that the idea of a perpetual war between science and religion fails to describe what actually happened.
What is happening today is as exciting to intellectuals as the World Series is to baseball fans. A creative mutual interaction between theology and science is generating protean ideas about how to describe our physical and social worlds. Our magnificent cosmos, replete with perhaps two trillion galaxies and a 13.8 billion year history, has been graced by a loving creator God.
Videos on Science and Religion
Are Science and Religion Really at War?
Natural Science within Public Christian Philosophy and Public Systematic Theology
Are we playing God with our genes? 1990-2000
The Cloning and Stem Cell Wars 2000-2010
The CRISPR Revolution (with Arvin Gouw) 2010-Date
Earth Apocalypse? Futurology, Eco-Theology & Eco-Ethics
Would discovery of ETI precipitate a religious crisis?
Articles & Posts on Science and Religion
Robert John Russell: In Celebration
One Programmatic Article on Science and Religion
Science and Religion: Ten Models of War, Truce, and Partnership
Various Articles and Posts on Science and Religion
Theology and Science Update 2025
Can Science Dispense with Religion?
Natural Science within Public Christian Philosophy and Public Systematic Theology
AI Warning: Utopia or Extinction?
What is Truth in Science and Theology? Part One
What is Truth in Science and Theology? Part Two
Protestantism and the Sciences
Science for the Church? Greg Cootsona
The Science of Evil and the Evil of Science
Ecotheology when “It’s Time to Act”
Extinction, Natural Evil, and the Cosmic Cross
The Danger of Free Will Denial
Where There’s Life There’s Intelligence
Religious Traditions and Genetic Enhancement
Should CRISPR Scientists Play God?
Are we closer to free market eugenics? The CRISPR controversy
Flashing the Yellow Light: Choices Forced upon us by Gene Editing Technologies
Universal Humanity, Religious Particularity, and Scientific Reductionism
The Higgs Boson: An Adventure in Critical Realism
Quantum Theory, God, and Carl Peterson
Techno-Secularism, Religion, and the Created Co-Creator
Can we locate our origin in the Future? Archonic versus epigenetic creation accounts
Should Christians Dump Darwin?
Befriending Science: Christian Theologians Respond
Additional Global Resources on Science and Religion
Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences
Science and Religion Course Program
Counterbalance on Science and Religion
Faraday Institute on Science and Religion
Zygon Center for Religion and Science
ESSSAT (European Society for the Study of Science and Theology)
Routledge books on Science and Religion
ATF Press: Scholars Collection on Faith and Science
Neuroscience, Consciousness, and Free Will
Did I lose my Conscious Mind to Science?
Did I lose my Free Will to Science?
Did I lose my sense of God to Atheism?
Did I lose my Self to my Brain?
Did I lose my Self to Determinism?
Did I lose my Self to Christian Freedom?
The Science of Ecology along with Eco-Theology & Eco-Ethics
PT 3001 Eco-Theology when it’s “Time to Act”
PT 3002 The Science-As-Savior Eco-Myth
Patheos PT 3003 Public Theology for the Common Good
Patheos PT 3011 Politics vs Common Good Governing Part One
Patheos PT 3012 Economism vs Common Good Part Two
Patheos PT 3013 Economism vs Common Good Part Three
Patheos PT 3014 Economism vs Common Good Part Four
Patheos PT 3015 Just, Sustainable, Participatory, and Planetary. Common Good Part Five
Patheos PT 3016 Moltmann, Muslims and Al-Mizan: Common Good Part Six
Patheos PT 3017 Climate Change and the Global Common Good
Patheos PT 3018 The Cosmic Common Good
The Science of No-Kill Cultivated Meat & Religious Reactions
Brian Brosovic and Ted Peters, “Meet the New Meat”
To Eat No-Kill Cultivated Meat. Part One: The Science
To Eat No-Kill Cultivated Meat. Part Two: Kosher?
To Eat No-Kill Cultivated Meat. Part Three: Hindus? Jains?
To Eat No-Kill Cultivated Meat. Part Four: Mormons?
To Eat No-Kill Cultivated Meat. Part Five: Muslims?
To Eat No-Kill Cultivated Meat. Part Six: Catholic?
Astrobiology, Astrotheology, UFOs, and Alien Contact
VIDEO. Star Trek Universe: Cosmic Thoughts
VIDEO. The Cosmic Matrix: Science, SETI, and UFOs
VIDEO. The ETI Myth in Science and Ufology
Astrobiology: The Almost Religious Science
How to become an astrotheologian?
Astrotheology’s contribution to public theology
Astrotheology as Public Theology
Do we have space neighbors in God’s kingdom?
Introducing astrotheology and astroethics
Does extraterrestrial life have intrinsic value?
Would confirmation of ETI cause a crisis for terrestrial religion? (Royal Society)
Would confirmation of ETI cause a crisis for terrestrial religion? (Patheos)
Data from the PETERS ETI RELIGIOUS CRISIS Survey
Are Alien Scientists the Real Gods?
NASA and Priests Preparing for ETI Contact
Does extraterrestrial life have intrinsic value: An exploration in responsibility ethics
Astrobiology and Astrotheology in Creative Mutual Interaction
Astrotheology as Public Theology
Astrobiology: The Almost Religious Science
Future Space Missions and Human Enhancement: Medical and Ethical Challenges
Evolving from Earthlings into Martians
Intelligent Aliens and Astroethics
The Cosmic Common Good
Religious Transhumanism and Its Critics
VIDEO: The Future of Transhumanism as a New Religious Movement
Is AI a shortcut to virtue? To holiness?
The Transhuman, The Posthuman, and the Truly Human
Radical Life Extension? Cybernetic Immortality? Or Resurrection of the Body?
Religious Transhumanism 4: Evangelical? Yes
Religious Transhumanism 5: Mormon? Yes
Religious Transhumanism 6: Jewish? No
Religious Transhumanism 7: Buddhist? Yes
Religious Transhumanism 8: UU? Yes
Christian Transhumanism versus Transhumanist Christianity
Religious Transhumanism 10: Transhumanism vs Posthumanism
Religious Transhumanism 11: What about the body?
Religious Transhumanism 12: Catholic?
Religious Transhumanism 13: Methodist?
Religious Transhumanism 14: Scientific?
Religious Transhumanism 15: Lutheran?
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