Selected Readings

Berlinsky. David. Human Nature. Discovery Institute. 2020.

Caruso, Gregg D. (Ed.). Science and Religion: 5 Questions.  Automatic Press/VIP, 2014 (forthcoming).

Evans, C. Stephen. Preserving the Person: A Look at the Human Sciences. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1979.

Hummel, Charles. The Galileo Connection: Resolving Conflicts between Science and the Bible. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1986.

Kuhn, Thomas. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.  Chicago, Ill: University of Chicago Press, 1962,

Lipton, Peter. "Inference to the Best Explanation" in A Companion to the Philosophy of Science. Edited by W. H. Newton-Smith. Malden, MA.: Blackwell Publishers Inc., 2000,: pp. 184-93.

Longino, Helne. "Toward an Epistemology for Biological Pluralism" in Biology and Epistemology. Edited by Richard Creath and Jane Maienschein. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 261-86.

McGrath, Alister E. The Foundations of Dialogue in Science and Religion. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1996.

Monton, Bradley. Seeking God in Science: An Atheist Defends Intelligent Design. Toronto, Canada: Broadview Press, 2009.

Moreland, J. P. Christianity and the Nature of Science: A Philosophical Investigation. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House Company, 1989.

________. and Ciocchi, David M., eds. Christian Perspectives on Being Human. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1993.

________. and Scott B. Rae (eds). Body and Soul: Human Nature and the Crisis in Ethics. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2000.

Pearcy, Nancy R. and Charles Thaxton. The Soul of Science: Christian Faith and Natural Philosophy. Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway Books, 1994.

Plantinga, Alvin. Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion and Naturalism.  New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

If you read only one book from this list...this would be the one we’d suggest that helps Christians think at a deep level about the nature of science and its relationship to Christian faith.

Polkinghorne, John. Belief in God in an Age of Science. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.

________. Quarks, Chaos, and Christianity: Questions to Science and Religion. New York: Crossroad, 1996. 

Ratzsch, Del. Philosophy of Science: The Natural Sciences in Christian Perspective. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1986.

Wolterstorff, Nicholas. Reason Within the Bounds of Religion (Second Edition).   Grand Rapids: MI.: Eerdmans, 1983.   See also Reason Within The Bounds of Religion Review Jcook.pdf

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