Articles
Editorial
Denis Alexander
Pages: 82-82
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.
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.
Review Article. Reason and Reality: The relationship between science and theology by John C. Polkinghorne
Oliver R. Barclay
Pages: 127-129
Response to review article
John C. Polkinghorne
Pages: 130-130
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.
Book reviews
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