The big question: why we can't stop talking about science, faith, and God

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"Alister McGrath's The Big Question is an accessible, engaging account of how science relates to faith, exploring how the working methods and assumptions of the natural sciences can be theologically useful. McGrath uses stories and analogies, as well as personal accounts, in order to help readers understand the scientific and theological points he makes, and grasp their deeper significance. An extremely accomplished scientist and scholar, McGrath criticizes the evangelism of the New Atheists and paves a logical well-argued road to the compatibility between science and faith, "--Amazon.com.  Read more... Abstract: "Alister McGrath's The Big Question is an accessible, engaging account of how science relates to faith, exploring how the working methods and assumptions of the natural sciences can be theologically useful. McGrath uses stories and analogies, as well as personal accounts, in order to help readers understand the scientific and theological points he makes, and grasp their deeper significance. An extremely accomplished scientist and scholar, McGrath criticizes the evangelism of the New Atheists and paves a logical well-argued road to the compatibility between science and faith, "--Amazon.com Content: From wonder to understanding : beginning a journey -- Stories, pictures, and maps : making sense of things -- Theory, evidence, and proof : how do we know what is true? -- Inventing the universe : our strange world -- Darwin and evolution : new questions for science and faith -- Souls : on being human -- The quest for meaning and the limits of science -- An empirical ethics? : science and morality -- Science and faith : making sense of the world--making sense of life.