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Science, Theology, and Ethics
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By Ted Peters
ISBN
0754608255
Ashgate
2003
338 pages
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Science challenges faith to seek fuller
understanding; and faith challenges science to be
socially and ethically responsible. This book begins with
faith in God the Creator of the world, and then expands
our understanding of creation in light of Big Bang
cosmology and new discoveries in physics. Examining the
expanding frontier of genetic research, Ted Peters draws
out implications for theological understandings of human
nature and human freedom. Issues discussed include:
methodology in science and theology; eschatology in
cosmology and theology; freedom and responsibility in
evolution and theology; and genetic determinism, genetic
engineering, and cloning in relation to freedom, the
comodification of human life, and equitable distribution
of the fruits of genetic technology.
The dialogue model of relationship between science and
religion, proposed in this book, provides a common ground
for the disparate voices among theologians, scientists,
and world religions. This common ground has the potential
to breathe new life into current debates about the world
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| Contents
Introduction
Part I: From conflict to consonance
Theology and science: where are we?
Scientific research
and the Christian faith
Part II: Physics, cosmology, and
creation
The terror of time
God as the future of cosmic
creativity
David Bohm, postmodernism, and the divine
Exo-theology: speculations on extra-terrestrial life
Part III: Genetics, ethics, and our evolutionary future
Genetics
and genethics: are we playing God with our genes?
Cloning shock: a theological reaction
The stem cell
debate: ethical questions
Designer children: the market
world of reproductive choice
Multiple choice in baby
making
In search of the perfect child: genetic testing
and selective abortion
Playing God and germline
intervention
Co-evolution: pain or promise
Part IV: Nuclear
waste and earth ethics
Nuclear waste: the ethics of
disposal
Whole and part: the tension between the common
good and the individual freedom
Not in my backyard: the
crisis in waste siting
Part V: The human body: a theological
prognosis
Wholeness in salvation and healing
The
physical body of immortality
Index. |
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