It keeps me seeking : the invitation from science, philosophy, and religion / Andrew Briggs, Hans Halvorson, and Andrew Steane

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- 2. conversation about the themes -- 3. Religion, history, and philosophy -- 4. How is science to be carried forward, and its conclusions reported? -- 5. What does it mean to be me? -- 6. two Tabors -- 7. deeply subtle nature of physically existing things -- 8. Issues arising from quantum physics -- 9. On the way -- 10. General relativity, language, and learning -- 11. argument from design -- 12. Biological evolution -- 13. This is the story of life on Earth -- 14. conversation about naturalism -- 15. struggle is nothing new -- 16. Miracles and reasonable belief -- 17. Wisdom and miracles -- 18. You can't live a divided life -- 19. Learning from the Bible -- 20. conversation about the themes, continued -- 21. It keeps us seeking -- 22. Thanks.

Here is a fresh look at how science contributes to the bigger picture of human flourishing, through a collage of science and philosophy, richly illustrated by the authors' own experience and personal reflection. They survey the territory of fundamental physics, machine learning, philosophy of human identity, evolutionary biology, miracles, arguments from design, naturalism, the history of ideas, and more. The natural world can be appreciated not only for itself, but also as an eloquent gesture, a narrative and a pointer beyond itself. Our human journey is not to a theorem or a treatise, but to a meeting which encompasses all our capacities. In this meeting, science is the way to find out about the structure of the physical world of which we are a part, not a means to reduce ourselves and our fellow human beings to mere objects of scrutiny, and still less to attempt the utterly futile exercise of trying to do that to God. We have intellectual permission to be open to the notion that God can be trusted and known. The material world encourages an open-hearted reaching out to something more, with a freedom to seek and to be received by what lies beyond the scope of purely impersonal descriptions and attitudes. -- Provided by publisher.