ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the overview of reading about science. The branch of theology of special relevance to the scientific worldview is theodicy, which seeks God's sense of justice through a systems approach to Creation. Hegel significantly mediated the emergence of science as a modern art of living. Protscience has spawned some very interesting and often profound re-readings of the history of science that have served to rehabilitate some previously discredited ideas and generally foster a devolution of scientific authority. Brockman's use of the phrase 'third culture' is perhaps meant to provoke a challenge to the social sciences, which originally located themselves midway between the 'two cultures' of the humanities and natural sciences, but over the past 150 years appear to have reinvented secular versions of theology's misgivings about assimilating human to animal nature. For Rosenberg, 'Darwinian' is simply an honorific title for the reducibility of life processes to molecular mechanisms that obey an experimentally testable equivalent of 'natural selection'.
