October 1992
volume 4 (2)

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Articles

Editorial

Denis Alexander
Pages: 82-82

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Natural Law in the Natural Sciences: the Origins of Modern Atheism?

John Hedley Brooke
Pages: 83-103

Abstract

It is commonly argued that the sciences have eroded religious belief by explaining physical phenomena in terms of natural laws. This formulation is, however, defective because it fails to recognise that what was often in dispute between secular and sacred philosophies of nature was not the possibility of law statements but the meaning to be attached to the ‘law’ metaphor. The object of the paper is to explore some of the resonances of the term in different historical contexts, to stress its strategic role in both secular and sacred constructions of nature, and to argue that the real issues dividing the theist from the atheist usually lay behind the veil of nature’s regularities.

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Mapping the Human Genome: the Human Genome Project

John Bryant
Pages: 105-125

Abstract

Growth of knowledge in human genetics for long lagged behind our knowledge of genetics in general. All areas of genetics have benefitted enormously from the input of recombinant DNA (genetic engineering) techniques. For human genetics there is now a coordinated effort, using all available techniques, to map the entire human genome. The Human Genome Project was initiated in 1990 and is due to be completed in 2005. The project, in common with nearly all new developments in science and technology, raises some social and ethical concerns; most if not all potential problems may be controlled by appropriate regulatory bodies. The benefits of the human genome project, especially for medicine, are likely to be enormous.

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Review Article. Reason and Reality: The relationship between science and theology by John C. Polkinghorne

Oliver R. Barclay
Pages: 127-129

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Response to review article

John C. Polkinghorne
Pages: 130-130

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A Short Introduction to the New Age Movement

Ernest Lucas
Pages: 3-11

Abstract

The following notes were written as background information for participants in a ‘Christians in Science’ conference on the subject ‘Science, Christianity and the New Age Movement’ (Regent’s College, London, 28 September, 1991). The notes are reproduced here to introduce the central tenets of New Age thinking, other aspects of this movement being analysed in greater depth in three further articles in this issue.

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Book reviews

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Blueprints: Solving the Mystery of Evolution

Maitland A. Edey & Donald C. Johanson (Darryl Macer)
Pages: 131-132


Shaping Genes

Darryl Macer (John Bryant)
Pages: 132-134


The Unheeded Cry

Bernard E. Rollin (T. J. Parkinson)
Pages: 134-134


Theology and the Justification of Faith

Wentzel Van Huyssteen (W. S. K. Chalmers)
Pages: 135-135


The Description of nature. Niels Bohr and the Philosophy of Physics

John Honner (Peter Landsberg)
Pages: 135-136


Thinking about Science–Max Delbrück and the Origins of Molecular Biology

Ernst Peter Fischer and Carol Lipson (David M. Taylor)
Pages: 136-138


God Values, and Empiricism: Issues in Philosophieal Theology

Creighton Peden and Larry Axel (Robert C. Bishop)
Pages: 138-139


The Earth is the Lord’s

Steve Bishop and Christopher Droop (Leslie Batty)
Pages: 139-140


Thinking About Nature: An Investigation of Nature, Value and Ecology

Andrew Brennan (Peter D. Moore)
Pages: 140-141


Global Warming

Stephen H. Schneider (John Houghton)
Pages: 141-141


Animal and Christianity. A Book of Readings

Andrew Linzey and Torn Regan (Oliver Barclay)
Pages: 142-142


Genesis Today

Ernest Lucas (Reg Luhman)
Pages: 142-143


Science and Religion: One world–changing perspectives on reality

Jan Fennema and lain Paul (Revd. Dr. D. C. Spanner)
Pages: 143-144


Religion in an Age of Science, The Gifford Lectures 1989-1991

Ian Barbour (Lawrence Osborn)
Pages: 144-145


Creation out of Nothing

Don Cupitt (Lawrence Osborn)
Pages: 146-147


The Savior of Science

Stanley L. Jaki (David Burgess)
Pages: 147-147


How to Ploy Theological Ping Pong

Basil Mitchell (M. B. Roberts)
Pages: 147-148


End

Frank Close (A. G. Stewart)
Pages: 148-149


Beyond the Big Bang: Quantum Cosmologies and God

William B. Drees (Robert L. F. Boyd
Pages: 149-150


Science of the Gods: Reconciling mystery & matter

David Ash & Peter Hewitt (Lawrence Osborne)
Pages: 150-152


The Rebirth of Nature; The Greening of Science and God

Rupert Sheldrake (Lawrence Osborn)
Pages: 150-152


The Fate of the Forest–Developer, Destroyers and Defenders of the Amazon

Susanna Hecht and Alexander Cockburn (Julian Evans)
Pages: 152-153


The Purpose of It All

Stanley L. Jaki (Robert C. Bishop)
Pages: 153-154


The Power of Miracle

Norman R. C. Dockeray (J. H. Chamberlayne)
Pages: 154-154


Biology Through the Eyes of Faith

R. T. Wright (A. B. Robins)
Pages: 155-155


Man on Earth

John Reader (A. B. Robins)
Pages: 155-155