No God, No Science Theology, Cosmology, Biology [Hardcover]

No God, No Science: Theology, Cosmology, Biology presents a work of philosophical theology that retrieves the Christian doctrine of creation from the distortions imposed upon it by positivist science and the Darwinian tradition of evolutionary biology.

• Argues that the doctrine of creation is integral to the intelligibility of the world
• Brings the metaphysics of the Christian doctrine of creation to bear on the nature of science
• Offers a provocative analysis of the theoretical and historical relationship between theology, metaphysics, and science
• Presents an original critique and interpretation of the philosophical meaning of Darwinian biology

Preface viii

Acknowledgments xi

Abbreviations xii

Primary Sources and Translations xvi

Introduction 1

Part I In the Beginning 7

1 Discourse on Method 9

2 A Brief History of the Cosmos 49

Part II The Eclipse of the Universe 105

3 The Scientific and Theological Revolution 107

4 Unnatural “Theology” 150

5 Darwin the Theologian 186

6 The Mystery of the Missing Organism 250

Part III Creation Without Creationism 297

7 Deus Creator Omnium 299

8 What the World Is 334

9 Saving the Appearances 375

Epilogue: Evolution of the Last Men 416

Index 422

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