ON TWO ISSUES IN SCIENCE AND RELIGION: A RESPONSE TO DAVID GRIFFIN

Ian G. Barbour; Ian G. Barbour

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9744.1988.tb00619.x

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ON TWO ISSUES IN SCIENCE AND RELIGION: A RESPONSE TO DAVID GRIFFIN

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Abstract. In responding to David Griffin's critique of my book, Issues in Science and Religion, I suggest that most of the points which he initially presents as differences between us concerning reduction and emergence are resolved in the second half of his article. I spoke of the emergence of higher‐level “properties” and “activities,” rather than “entities,” but my analysis of whole and parts is similar to his, although it was perhaps not always clearly articulated. We agree also that Alfred North Whitehead's God is involved in every event in ways which avoid the problems of the supernatu‐ralist “God of the gaps,” but we differ as to whether God's action might be taken into account in a new “post‐modern” science.

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science and theology, god‐world relation, process philosophy, emergence, mind‐body relation

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Barbour, I., (1988) “ON TWO ISSUES IN SCIENCE AND RELIGION: A RESPONSE TO DAVID GRIFFIN”, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 23(1), 83–88. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9744.1988.tb00619.x

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Ian G. Barbour (Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science)

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Volume 23 • Issue 1 • March 1988

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Pages	83–88

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Published	1988-03-02

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