Notes
1 N. Copernicus, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium Libri Sex (Six Books on the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres), 1543. For an English translation, see Nicholas Copernicus On the Revolutions, edited by J. Dobrzycki, translation and commentary by E. Rosen (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978).
2 F. H. T. Rhodes, “Christianity in a Mechanistic Universe,” in D. M. MacKay, ed., Christianity in a Mechanistic Universe and other essays (Chicago: InterVarsity Press,1965), 19.
3 R. G. Collingwood, Essay on Metaphysics (Oxford: Oxford University Press,1940), 227.
4 C. A. Russell, Cross-Currents: Interactions between Science and Faith (Vancouver, B.C.: Regent College Bookstore, 1993), 67-71.
5 Quoted by G. Easterbrook, “Science and God: A Warming Trend?” Science 227 (15 August 1997): 890-893.
6 Brief biographies of 48 Christian scientists may be found in D. Graves, Scientists of Faith (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Resources, 1996).
7 J. W. Draper, History of the Conflict between Religion and Science (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1875).
8 A. D. White, History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom, 2 vols. (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1896).
9 (a) D. C. Lindberg and R. L. Numbers, God and Nature: Historical Essays on the Encounter between Christianity and Science (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986), 1-18; (b) J. H. Brooke, Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 33-42.
10 C. Sagan, Cosmos (New York: Random House, 1980); I. Asimov, In them Beginning (New York: Crown Publishers, 1981); R. Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker (New York: W. W. Norton, 1986); P. W. Atkins, Creation Revisited (Oxford; New York: W. H. Freeman, 1992).
11 For a brief review, see C. E. Hummel, The Galileo Connection (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press,1986), 81-125.
12 D. N. Livingstone, Darwin’s Forgotten Defenders (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1987).
13 Quoted by Livingstone, ref. 12, p. 66.
14 Quoted by Livingstone, ref. 12, pp. 115, 118.
15 D. Alexander, Rebuilding the Matrix: Science and Faith in the 21st Century (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2001), 203.
16 Livingstone, ref. 12, p. 146.
17 R. L. Numbers, The Creationists, in ref. 9a, pp. 400-410.
18 J. C. Whitcomb, Jr. and H. M. Morris, The Genesis Flood: The Biblical Record and Its Scientific Implications (Philadelphia: Presbyterian & Reformed Pub. Co., 1961).
19 John 1:1-3; Hebrews 1:1-3; Colossians 1:15-17.
20 For a discussion of the kinds of questions addressed by science and the Christian Faith, see H. J. Van Till, The Fourth Day (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans,1986), 193-248; H. J. Van Till, R. E. Snow, J. H. Stek, and D. A. Young, Portraits of Creation (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans,1990), 126-151.
21 Quoted by Alexander, ref. 15, p. 64.
Some Resources
D. Alexander, Rebuilding the Matrix: Science and Faith in the 21st Century (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2001).
J. H. Brooke, Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
D. Graves, Scientists of Faith (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Resources, 1996).
W. R. Hearn, Being a Christian in Science (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press,1997).
C. E. Hummel, The Galileo Connection (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press,1986).
M. A. Jeeves and R. J. Berry, Science, Life, and Christian Belief (Leicester, UK: Apollos, 1998).
D. C. Lindberg and R. L. Numbers, God and Nature: Historical Essays on the Encounter between Christianity and Science (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986).
D. N. Livingstone, Darwin’s Forgotten Defenders (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1987).
D. M. MacKay, The Clock Work Image: A Christian Perspective on Science (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1974).
J. Polkinghorne, Belief in God in an Age of Science (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998).
C. A. Russell, Cross-Currents: Interactions between Science and Faith (Vancouver, B.C.: Regent College Bookstore, 1993).
H. J. Van Till, The Fourth Day (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans,1986).
H. J. Van Till, R. E. Snow, J. H. Stek, and D. A. Young, Portraits of Creation (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans,1990).
H. J. Van Till, D. A. Young, and C. Menninga, Science Held Hostage: What’s Wrong with Creation Science AND Evolutionism (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1988).
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