ABSTRACT
Has science made religion intellectually implausible? Does it rule out the existence of a personal God? Doesn't evolution, for instance, make the whole idea of divine providence incredible? And hasn't recent biology shown that life and mind are reducible to chemistry, thus rendering illusory the notions of soul and spirit? Need we any longer hold that the world is created by God? Or that we are really created by God? Or that we are really intended by something or someone to be here? Isn't it possible that all the complex pattering in nature is simply a product of blind chance? In an age of science can we honestly believe that there is nothing like direction or purpose to the universe? Moreover, isn't religion responsible for the ecological crisis. These questions make up the so called “problem” of science and religion. Today they may seem no closer to resolution than ever; yet they remain very much alive and continue to evoke an interesting range of responses. 1
