A User's Guide to Our Present World - Gruning, Herb

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Résumé :
The reader is about to embark on a journey of discovery and perhaps even reckoning. Religion and science have been understood as inherently at odds and inimical toward each other. However, both employ metaphor: religion when it calls the spirit descending upon Jesus a dove, science when it describes electrons as a current flowing through a wire, for only fluids flow and electrons are not a fluid. Both use myths: some religions in the sense that there was a Golden Age of humans in a garden, science when it promises unlimited progress. Both enlist hypothetical entities: some religions when a storm heralds that the gods are angry, science with the existence of a vacuum and a frictionless surface. And each bears its fundamentalist contingent: just observe a debate between creationists and evolutionists and the zeal and fervor with which the Bible and Darwin must be defended at any cost, no matter what. Given all this, it becomes readily apparent that religion and science display more in common than was once expected. And that is precisely what is in peril in the following pages--our expectations. May the intrepid traveler benefit from the voyage.

Biographie:
Herb Gruning is an assistant professor of theological ethics at the Seminary Theology Department of Huron University College at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of four other books plus one chapter and has taught religion and science and several additional courses at five colleges and universities in both Canada and the U.S.

Sommaire:
Herb Gruning is the author of six other works and teaches theological ethics at Huron University College, affiliated with Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. He has taught courses in religion and science, models of divinity, and human nature, among other topics, on both sides of the US-Canada border. He lives in London with his wife, both of whom are resisting retirement....