Between Addition and Difference: A Place for Religious Understanding in a World of Science
Among contemporary religious believers, some follow in the footsteps of Newton, allowing their religious understanding to fill in gaps left by the sciences. Others take a more Wittgensteinian approach, discretely separating religious from scientific ways of thinking. Because neither of these relativ...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities$s2024-
1998
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Zygon
Year: 1998, Volume: 33, Issue: 4, Pages: 599-616 |
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Science and religion
B cultural critique B AIDS B Time B Metaphor B Sir Isaac Newton B Pierre-Simon Laplace B George Lakoff B Richard Dawkins B Human Behavior B Cognitive models B Ludwig Wittgenstein B image schema |
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| Summary: | Among contemporary religious believers, some follow in the footsteps of Newton, allowing their religious understanding to fill in gaps left by the sciences. Others take a more Wittgensteinian approach, discretely separating religious from scientific ways of thinking. Because neither of these relatively irenic positions captures the important element of cultural reform that is prevalent in so much of the religious life of the past, George Lakoff's recent work in cognitive studies is used to suggest ways that religious ideas may be used to challenge and enrich scientific thought. A scrutiny of Richard Dawkins's biological analyses of human behavior reveals the distorting limitations of exclusively scientific understanding, thereby clearing conceptual space for genuinely religious values, actions, responsibilities, and forms of human life. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/0591-2385.00176 |