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    Karl Giberson and Mariano Artigas offer an informed analysis on the views of Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Dawkins, Edward O. Wilson, Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking and Steven Weinberg; carefully distinguishing science from philosophy and religion in the writings of the oracles.
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    The Anthropic Principle
    Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 9 (1-2): 63-90. 1997.
    The Anthropic Principle suggests that the universe may have been designed for human life. This anthropocentric, anti-Copernican, notion elicits a variety of responses from scientists, including some elaborate attempts to invalidate it by trying to show that there may be an infinity of alternative universes. These attempts may be challenged as unreasonably speculative and presumptive. What emerges is the suggestion that cosmology may at last be in possession of some raw material for a postmodern …Read more
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    Chance, Divine Action and the Natural Order of Things
    Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 27 (1-2): 100-109. 2015.
    Most people believe that everything happens for a reason. Whether it is “God’s will,” “karma” or “fate,” we want to believe that an overarching purpose undergirds everything, that nothing in the world--especially a disaster or tragedy--is a random, meaningless event. This dilemma presents itself provocatively in Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution that, in the conventional scientific understanding, is driven by random chance. Reconciling chance and divine purpose poses challenges to the Judeo-C…Read more
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    Abraham's Dice: Chance and Providence in the Monotheistic Traditions (edited book)
    Oxford University Press USA. 2016.
    Most of us believe everything happens for a reason. Whether it is "God's will","karma", or "fate," we want to believe that nothing in the world, especially disasters and tragedies, is a random, meaningless event. But now, as never before, confident scientific assertions that the world embodies a profound contingency are challenging theological claims that God acts providentially in the world. The random and meandering path of evolution is widely used as an argument that God did not create life.A…Read more
  • The Circled Wagons of Science (review)
    Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 10 (1-2): 159-172. 1998.
  • Providence and the Christian Scholar
    with Donald A. Yerxa
    Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 11 (1-2): 123-140. 1999.
    God's action in the world poses a challenge for the Christian scholar. At the scholarly level of one's discipline, invocations of divine Providence as an explanatory category are considered unacceptable. Yet the scholar-believer necessarily acknowledges that God is indeed active in His Creation. Generally, this tension is resolved via the assumption of methodological naturalism at the level of one's discipline and the embrace of theism at the level of one's faith. This can result in an incoheren…Read more
  • The Cosmological God (review)
    Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 6 (1-2): 165-179. 1994.