Today we launch a two-part episode featuring philosopher Dr. Paul Tyson talking about his book, A Theology of Science. We take modern science quite for granted today, hardly ever thinking about where it came from or how it became to be the dominant cultural paradigm of our time. Science seems to dictate virtually every aspect of our lives. From the vastness of the cosmos to every bird of the air and every hair on our head, science seems to be able to explain virtually everything. And even in discussions about science's relationship to our Christian faith, it is almost always couched as "science and religion" or "science and faith." The two seemed to be kept in their respective spheres.
Our guest this week and next, philosopher Dr. Paul Tyson, suggests it should be exactly the other way around. As Christians, he argues, we must retrace our steps and recover a theology of science and of creation, one that challenges the uncritical belief of our time that science must come first.
Dr Paul Tyson is an integral thinker who works across theology, philosophy and sociology. Metaphysics and epistemology, understood not only philosophically and theoretically, but equally theologically and sociologically, are his areas of interest. At present he is a Principal Investigator and the Project Co-coordinator for the "After Science and Religion" project, run through IASH. This project stems from Professor Peter Harrison's 2015 text, The Territories of Science and Religion, and seeks to re-think what both science and religion could look like as we move forward.
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- Watchman Fellowship 4-page Profile on Atheism by Dr. Robert M. Bowman: watchman.org/Atheism
- Watchman Fellowship 4-page Profile on Agnosticism by W. Russell Crawford: watchman.org/Agnostic
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