Science and the Religious Right: What Americans Should Know about Both Book

Contents

Introduction....................xi
1. The Search for Truth....................1
I. Physical Science....................13
2. The World of Newton....................19
3. The World of Einstein....................25
4. Radiometric Dating....................35
II. Biological Science....................39
5. Evolution....................45
6. Vitalism....................61
7. Brain and Mind....................67
8. What Science Does Not Know....................83
III. From Science to Secularism....................89
9. What Is Secularism?....................91
10. A Personal God....................97
11. God the Creator....................101
12. The Sources of Ethics....................109
IV. Religion....................117
13. World Religions....................119
14. Religious Ethics....................127
15. Facts and Myths....................135
16. Positive Aspects of Religion....................147
V. The Religious Right....................151
17. Intelligent Design....................153
18. Literal Reading of the Bible....................167
19. Science, Religion, and Politics....................173
VI. A New Century....................193
20. The Future of Religion....................195
21. The Future of Secularism....................211
22. Concordance....................231
Acknowledgments....................235
Glossary....................237
Recommended Books....................247
Bibliography....................255
Notes....................259