Articles
Guest Editorial: On Book Reviews
Colin A. Russell
Pages: 98-100
Christians and the Environment: Our Opportunities and Responsibilities
John Houghton
Pages: 101-111
Abstract
The following is the text of the Drawbridge Lecture given on 1st October 1996 in St. Margaret’s Church, Westminster, London, for the Christian Evidence Society.
Darwin’s Doubts About Design—the Darwin-Gray Correspondence of 1860
Michael B. Roberts
Pages: 113-127
Abstract
Darwin is credited with overturning Paley’s ideas of design. However, Darwin’s prob!ems with design are more complex, and are often misunderstood by neither grasping Paley’s ideas of design, nor those of his successors, who were beginning to replace arguments leading from design to God by arguments to design from God. Darwin’s doubts about design arose from three main sources: first, he used the argument from design, in contrast to Gray’s argument to design; second, the issue of chance and determinism; and, third, his doubts that a ‘Beneficent God’ could design a world with so much pain. The correspondence between Darwin and Gray and Gray’s articles on Darwin show how Gray sought to be Darwin’s retriever. Hodge’s challenge in What is Darwinism? was centred on chance, and as natural selection depended on chance Darwinism had to be atheistic, even if Darwin himself was not. In conclusion Darwin’s doubts about design stemmed directly from his doubts about God, and especially suffering.
Quantum Indeterminacy and the Omniscience of God
John J. Davis
Pages: 129-144
Abstract
Does God know the precise moment that an individual radium atom will decay? This article examines the `limited omniscience’ proposal of Arthur Peacocke, who argues that God has voluntarily limited his knowledge of events in the quantum world, to make genuine contingency possible. The author presents as an alternative to the Peacocke proposal a revisionist version of classical Christian theism, in which the divine knowledge is unlimited, but which recognizes genuine contingency in nature.
Response to Davis
Arthur Peacocke
Pages: 145-147
Correspondence
(Letter)
Chris Clarke
Pages: 155-155
(Letter)
R. J. Berry
Pages: 156-158
Book reviews
The Flamingo’s Smile
Stephen Jay Gould (R.S. Luhman)
Pages: 159-160
Atoms and Icons: A Discussion of the Relationships Between Science and Theology
Michael Fuller (David Atkinson)
Pages: 160-161
Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing
Rosemary Radford Ruether (Lawrence Osborn)
Pages: 161-162
The Fire in the Equations
Kitty Ferguson(D. A. Wilkinson)
Pages: 162-163
Prisons of Light—Black Holes
Kitty Ferguson (Robert Boyd)
Pages: 163-164
`Bioethics for the People by the People’
Darryl R. J. Macer and others (David Hardy)
Pages: 164-165
The Psychology of Interpersonal Behaviour
Michael Argyle (Michael Nazir-Ali)
Pages: 165-166
Paradigms and Barriers. How Habits of Mind Govern Scientific Beliefs
Howard Margolis (M. Alsford)
Pages: 166-167
Laws of Nature (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy)
John W. Carroll (Steve Bishop)
Pages: 168-168
Ecotheology July 1996, Issue 1
Mary Grey (editor) (Steve Bishop)
Pages: 168-169
Evolving the Mind
A. G. Cairns-Smith (Diana Briggs)
Pages: 169-170
Reluctant Heroine. The life and work of Hélène Duhem
Stanley L. Jaki (R. N. D. Martin)
Pages: 170-171
Galileo, Courtier: The Practice of Science in the Culture of Absolutism
Mario Biagioli (Revd Nicholas Moir)
Pages: 171-172
Edward Frankland: Chemistry, Controversy and Conspiracy in Victorian England
Colin Russell (John Nicholson)
Pages: 172-174
Religion, Science and Naturalism
Willem B. Drees (Denis Alexander)
Pages: 174-176
The Memory of Water
Michel Schiff (Revd. Dr. Ernest C. Lucas)
Pages: 176-177
Science and Wonders: conversations about science and belief
Russell Stannard (William K Kay)
Pages: 178-179
The Large, the Small and the Human Mind
Roger Penrose (John Polkinghorne)
Pages: 179-180
From a Biological Point of View: Essays in Evolutionary Philosophy
Elliott Sober (Arthur Jones)
Pages: 180-181
The Lives to Come. The genetic revolution and human possibilities
Philip Kitcher (Caroline Berry)
Pages: 181-182
The Troubled Helix: Social and Psychological Implications of the New Human Genetics.
Theresa Marteau & Martin Richards (editors) (John A Bryant)
Pages: 182-184
What is Intelligence?
J. Khalfa (editor) (P. C. Knox)
Pages: 184-185
Impossible Minds. My neurons, my consciousness
Igor Aleksander (D. A. Booth)
Pages: 185-187
The Radiance of Being. Complexity, Chaos and the Evolution of Consciousness
Allan Coombs (A. P. Stone)
Pages: 187-187
God and the Mind Machine
John Puddefoot (Rosamund Bourke)
Pages: 187-188
The Psychology of Religion: Classic and contemporary
David M. Wulff (Tim Marks)
Pages: 188-189
Gaia in Action: Science of the Living Earth.
Peter Bunyard (editor) (Celia Deane-Drummond)
Pages: 189-190
Darwin’s Black Box
Michael J. Behe (Michael Roberts)
Pages: 191-192