The Big Questions in Science and Religion -

How Did the Universe Begin? Two Ancient Stories of the Origin of All Things The Biblical Story As the Origin of the Scientific Outlook Three Problems with the Biblical Story Can God Be an Ultimate Explanation?Indian Religious Stories of the Origin of All Things The Possibility of Religious Explanations of the Universe The Spectrum of Religious Claims about the Origin of the Universe The Scientific Search for a Final Theory The Idea of Necessity The Primacy of Consciousness From Consciousness to a Physical Universe Are Quests for Ultimate Explanation Properly Scientific?The God Hypothesis Religious and Scientific Cosmologies Conclusion: The Question of Spiritual Reality How Will the Universe End?Religious Attitudes about the End of the Universe Ultimate Pessimism and Ultimate Optimism in Scientific Cosmology Evolution and Transhumanism Possible Religious Goals of an Evolutionary Universe Religious Views That Place the Goal of Life beyond the Universe The Self-Unfolding Nature of an Evolutionary Cosmos The Goal of the Far-Future Universe The Theistic Hope for a New Creation Three Scientific Views of the End of the Universe Modern Religious Views about the End of the Universe The Relation of Religious and Scientific Claims about the End of the Universe Is Evolution Compatible with Creation?Degeneration or Progress in History?The German Idealist Roots of Evolutionary Thought The Mechanisms of Evolution Suffering and Randomness in Evolution Creation and Creationism Intelligent Design The "Indifference" of Evolutionary Laws Theistic Evolution What Can an Omnipotent Being Do?God, Necessity, and the Problem of Evil Original Sin and Evolution Do the Laws of Nature Exclude Miracles?Miracles in the World Religions The Discovery of the Laws of Nature Are Miracles Transgressions of the Laws of Nature?Miracles as Extraordinary Manifestations of Spiritual Power Hume's Argument That Miracles Are Absolutely Impossible Is There a Firm and Unalterable Experience That Establishes Absolute Laws of Nature?Quantum Theory and the Laws of Nature Can We Ever Trust Testimony to the Occurrence of a Miracle?Why Improbable Events Probably Occur The Resurrection of Jesus as a Paradigmatic Miracle Miracles in Different Religious Contexts Conclusion: Miracles and Scientific Law What Is the Nature of Space and Time?Space and Time in Traditional Religious Thought The Development of Philosophical Views of Space and Time The Classical View of God as Spaceless and Timeless Negative and Positive Views of Time Flowing Time and Block Time God and the Possibility of Multiple Space/Times Is Time an Illusion?Mathematical Models and What Reality Is Like Temporal Flow and Freedom Process Philosophy and the Creative Temporality of God Reality and Appearance Is It Still Possible to Speak of the Soul?Buddhism and the Human Person Other Eastern Analyses of the Human Person Semitic Ideas of the Soul The Spectrum of Religious Views of the Human Person Reductionism and the Reaction against Descartes The Double-Aspect Theory of Brain and Consciousness A More Subtle Form of Duality in Neuropsychology Computers and Artificial Intelligence The Causal Efficacy of Conscious States Top-Down Causality Religious and Scientific Views of the Person Is Science the Only Sure Path to Truth?Religious Experience in the Semitic Traditions Religious Experience in Indian Traditions The Importance of Experience in Religion Differing Interpretations of Experience Must All Facts Be Publicly Observable?The Worlds of Science and of Common Sense Is Science Value-Free?Value, Faith, and Science Some Facts That Are Not Scientific— The Case of History Facts about Human Motives and Goals Truth in Art Science and the Humanities and Social Sciences Religion between the Sciences and the Humanities and Social Sciences Basic Perspectives Can Science Provide a Wholly Naturalistic Explanation for Moral and Religious Beliefs?Religion and Morality in the Semitic Traditions Religion and Morality in Eastern Traditions Morality and Sociobiology Personal Explanation Explaining Altruism Genetically The Difference Religious Belief Makes to Morality Psychology and Religious Experience Empirical Surveys of Religious Experience Moral and Religious Experience Has Science Made Belief in God Obsolete?The "Three-Age" View of Human Intellectual History The Origins of Religion and Spiritual Sensibility The Development of Theism in Hebrew Thought Theism, Idealism, and Arguments for God Nontheistic Developments in Religion Post-Enlightenment Religion God and the Multiverse Some Problems with the Multiverse Fine-tuning Arguments Science and Arguments for God Does Science Allow for Revelation and Divine Action?The Possibility of Particular Divine Acts in the World Revelation As a Form of Divine Action Providence and History Process Philosophy Indian Religious Traditions and Spiritual Causality Science and the End of Reductionism Whole—Part Causation Are There Causes outside the Domain of Science?The End of the Closed Causal Web?Quantum Physics and Consciousness Science and Religious Belief An Inconclusive Conclusion