Stephen M. Barr

Bible and Science By Stanley L. Jaki Christendom Press, 222 pages, $9.95 In this book Father Jaki discusses with much learning, insight, and wisdom the complex relationship between biblical religion and science. In the first chapters he gives an illuminating analysis of the Bible’s view of the . . . . Continue Reading »

Science and Religion: From Conflict to Conversation By John F. Haught Paulist Press, 225 pages Religion does not have an enemy in science, but it does in pseudo-scientific philosophy that goes by the name of “scientific materialism.” This philosophy gives a powerful, coherent, . . . . Continue Reading »

The Fire in the Equations: Science, Religion, and the Search for God By Kitty Ferguson Eerrdmans, 308 pages, $25 There has been a recent proliferation of books on science and religion, and this one is among the most absorbing and vivacious. Kitty Ferguson has a gift for explaining abstruse . . . . Continue Reading »

Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness. By Roger Penrose. Oxford University Press. 457 pages, $25 . Roger Penrose, the Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at Oxford, has gone a long way toward burying materialism, which is remarkable since Penrose is apparently a . . . . Continue Reading »