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Article: Getting the story right. (Correspondence).(Letter to the Editor)
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
- Article date:
- June 1, 2003
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Stephen M. Barr's "Retelling the Story of Science" (March) provides an excellent framework for understanding the relationship between science and religious faith, and a much-needed retelling of the twentieth-century "story of science."
But while many of the recent scientific discoveries that Professor Barr cites are very important for our understanding of ourselves and our relation to God and the world, I would caution against too much reliance on quantum indeterminacy to provide "scientific" space for human freedom. While it is true that recent discoveries in quantum physics have seriously damaged the deterministic view of the universe by showing that many ...
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