Articles
Guest Editorial: The Science-Faith Debate: Important New Developments
Colin Humphreys
Pages: 2-2
What happens when we pray
John Houghton
Pages: 3-20
Abstract
The practice of prayer as presented in Scripture and as experienced by Christians through the centuries presupposes a belief that God knows about, cares about and can take action regarding the matters being prayed about. How does the ‘faith story’ of the events in question relate to the ‘scientific story’ of those events? I explore the analogy of a spiritual dimension to assist in understanding how God works in relation to our prayers and certain problems associated with such an analogy. I then briefly consider further related questions: does God know the future, are there limitations to prayer and can prayer be tested?
Creation and the Environment
R. J. Berry
Pages: 21-43
Abstract
Debates about creation and evolution have distracted attention from the proper understanding of the environment as God’s creation, for which we are responsible to God. This has left the way open for a plethora of odd religious ideas, which in turn have raised suspicions about orthodox Christian interpretations of the environment and distracted from the obligations of stewardship laid by God on his people. This essay reviews some of the deficiencies and divergences of creation doctrine, beginning from the implicit teaching of scripture that God created the world ex nihilo, that nature is not divine, and that it has been redeemed by Christ’s work. The consequence of living in God’s image in God’s world is that we are stewards, accountable to God for our creation-care. The working-out of this doctrine is explored in terms of the more important distortions of our relationship to the world (syncretism, New Age teachings, Gaia, creation spirituality, deep ecology) and the weakness of our current perceptions. The conclusion is that traditional teachings about responsible stewardship need to be asserted and emphasized by Christians, and that these form the basis of environmental care for Christian and nonbeliever alike.
A Reply to Poole
Richard Dawkins
Pages: 45-50
Abstract
The following comments are in response to an article by Michael Poole entitled ‘A critique of aspects of the philosophy and theology of Richard Dawkins’, Science and Christian Belief (1994) 6, 41-59.
Essay Review: Science and Christian Belief by John Polkinghorne
Paul Helm
Pages: 59-64
A response to Dawkins
Michael Poole
Pages: 51-58
Correspondence
(Letter)
Peter Addinall
Pages: 65-67
Reply to Peter Addinall
Colin Humphreys
Pages: 67-70
Book reviews
Beyond Brundtland: Green Development in the 1990’s
Thijs de la Court (Ron Elsdon)
Pages: 71-72
Value Free Science? Purity and Power in Modern Knowledge
Robert N. Proctor (V. Paul Marston)
Pages: 72-74
The Astonishing Hypothesis. The Scientific Search for the Soul
Francis Crick (D. A. Booth)
Pages: 75-76
Nothing But Atoms And Molecules?: Probing the limits of science
Rodney D. Holder (Ernest Lucas)
Pages: 76-77
God, The Big Bang and Stephen Hawking: An Exploration into Origins
David Wilkinson (Oliver Howarth)
Pages: 77-78
Complexity: the emerging science at the edge of order and chaos
M. Mitchell Waldrop (David Atkinson)
Pages: 78-79
Black Holes and Baby Universes and other essays
Stephen Hawking (Robert Boyd)
Pages: 79-80
Complexity
Roger Lewin (J. Houghton)
Pages: 80-81
‘The Doctrine of DNA’
R. C. Lewontin (Alun Morinan)
Pages: 81-83
Rationality & Science: Can Science Explain Everything?
Roger Trigg (Denis Alexander)
Pages: 83-85
Biothethics in a Liberal Society
Max Charlesworth (Caroline Berry)
Pages: 85-86
Creation Revisited
P. W. Atkins (E. Rogers)
Pages: 86-87
The Science and Theology of Information
C. Wassermann, R. Kirby and B. Rordorff (P. Lendsberg)
Pages: 87-87
The New Genesis
Ronald Cole-Turner (R. B. Heap)
Pages: 87-89
The Golem: what everyone should know about science
Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch (Ernest C. Lucas)
Pages: 89-91
Eternity and Eternal Life. Speculative Theology and Science in Discourse
Tibor Horvarth, S. J. (Brother Jacques Arnould)
Pages: 91-92
Science Education for a Pluralist Society
Michael J. Reiss (Steve Bishop)
Pages: 93-94
Our Place in the Cosmos
Fred Hoyle & Chandra Wickramasinghe (Robert Boyd)
Pages: 93-94
Environmental Ethics: Divergence and Convergence
Susan J. Armstrong and Richard G. Botzler (Steve Bishop)
Pages: 94-94
Man and Creation: Perspectives on Science and Theology
Michael Bauman (ed.) (Oliver Barclay)
Pages: 95-95