ZYGO Zygon® 0591-2385 1467-9744 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1993.tb01046.x COMMENTARY ON THE SCIENCE‐RELIGION CONTROVERSY Birtel Frank T. 02 12 1993 28 4 10.1111/zygo.1993.28.issue-4 420 424

Abstract. The science‐religion exchange in failing to address fundamental issues is popular but ineffective. Reductionism and determinism, teleology, the assumed centrality of ethics in religion and progress must be reexamined to unify the task of science and religion into a common search for meaning in its eschatological dimension

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