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Article: Dear Darwin ... Love, God.(books on religion and science)
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- Sojourners Magazine
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- March 1, 2001
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The subject of science and religion is its own rapidly expanding universe, with innumerable academic conferences, centers, and books. This intellectual eruption is fueled, aver some skeptical scientists, partly by the bang of big bucks being emitted from the John Templeton Foundation in the form of awards, grants, and prizes. But the field also is spurred by the hope of reclaiming for religion the intellectual position it lost as the Scientific Revolution dispersed like clouds many religious explanations of the world and its ways.
Today, the intellectual compatibility between science and religion, not to mention the eternal question of the nature of God, is being ...