Description
Book SynopsisThis volume's title stems from an observable and seemingly amusing phenomenon--the placement of fish symbols on the rear of automobiles. There are two kinds: one a fish outline with a cross, exhibited by Christians; the other a fish outline filled with the word evolution, with little legs attached underneath. These symbols manifest the cultural war between religion and science, a clash that draws from nineteenth-century conflicts over evolution roots in the Enlightenment.
Today's cultural environment is a result of the internationalization of communication, labor, money, and commerce. This global culture emphasizes tolerance and acceptance of all peoples and traditions, but it also demands a moral and intellectual relativism that rejects master narratives, including religious tradition as well as scientific theory. In some respects, the postmodern environment is caused by science itself, by the development of postmodern science, its nineteenth-century adversarial stance toward
Table of Contents
Introduction: The War of the Jesus and Darwin Fishes; 1: Religion and Science in the Postmodern World; 1: The Postmodern World; 2: Sources of the On-Going Conflict; 2: Shifting Grounds of the “War” between Religion and Science; 3: The Fog of War; 4: The Reductive Temptation; 5: Kuhn’s New History of Science; 6: Galileo’s Enduring Career; 7: Why the Physicists Speak of God; 8: The Dissolving Gene; 9: How Evolution Came from Outer Space; 10: Evolutionary Psychology and the Inevitability of Religious Belief; 11: The Agony of J. Robert Oppenheimer; 12: Scientific Technology is the Return of Magic; 3: The Dynamic Relationship between Religion and Science; 13: Comparative Religion and Scientific Law; 14: The Dynamic Relationship of Religion and Science in the Postmodern World; 15: Conclusion: A Vision of Tolerable Order
