{"product_id":"no-god-no-science-isbn-9781405158015","title":"No God, No Science","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNo God, No Science: Theology, Cosmology, Biology\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eArgues that the doctrine of creation is integral to the intelligibility of the world\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBrings the metaphysics of the Christian doctrine of creation to bear on the nature of science\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers a provocative analysis of the theoretical and historical relationship between theology, metaphysics, and science\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePresents an original critique and interpretation of the philosophical meaning of Darwinian biology\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePreface viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrimary Sources and Translations xvi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I In the Beginning 7\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Discourse on Method 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 A Brief History of the Cosmos 49\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II The Eclipse of the Universe 105\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Scientific and Theological Revolution 107\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Unnatural “Theology” 150\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Darwin the Theologian 186\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The Mystery of the Missing Organism 250\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Creation Without Creationism 297\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Deus Creator Omnium 299\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 What the World Is 334\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Saving the Appearances 375\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue: Evolution of the Last Men 416\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 422\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e�Space does not allow me to parse in fine detail the massive erudition that Hanby has brought to bear on this topic or the very precise and exhaustive manner in which he details his metaphysical and theological case.�  (\u003ci\u003eModern Theology\u003c\/i\u003e, 27 April 2015)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e�You can know \"what\" without knowing \"how\", but you can't know \"how\" without knowing \"what\" - my short summary of this wonderful book.�  (\u003ci\u003eEvery Good Path\u003c\/i\u003e, 27 July 2014)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e �Summing Up: Recommended.  Upper-level undergraduates through researchers\/faculty.�  (\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 December 2013)  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Hanby\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy of Science at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family Studies at the Catholic University of America.  His previous published works include \u003ci\u003eAugustine and Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e and numerous journal articles.  He has taught previously at Baylor University and Villanova University.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAre creation and evolution mutually exclusive terms? Or is there instead a deep relationship between science, metaphysics, and theology that can help shed light into mankind’s quest for the ultimate truth? \u003ci\u003eNo God, No Science: Theology, Cosmology, Biology\u003c\/i\u003e presents a comprehensive work of philosophical theology whose overarching aim is to retrieve the Christian doctrine of creation \u003ci\u003eex nihilo\u003c\/i\u003e from the distortions imposed upon it by positivist science and the Darwinian tradition of evolutionary biology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNoted scholar Michael Hanby cogently argues that the Christian doctrine of creation is actually \u003ci\u003eessential\u003c\/i\u003e to the intelligibility of the world and that the universe itself is a fundamentally metaphysical and theological concept. Metaphysics and theology, he reasons, are not options in the realm of science, and the intractable problems of Darwinian biology are actually the result of its faulty metaphysical and theological foundations. Putting forth a new understanding of the relationship between theology and science and an original and thought-provoking critical reassessment of  Darwinian  biology, \u003ci\u003eNo God, No Science\u003c\/i\u003e changes the terms of the debate between Darwinism and theology and offers startling new insights into the potential for science and religion to coexist and flourish in the modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“A truce is sometimes called between science and theology, by thinkers on both sides. Michael Hanby, however, shows a way forward more profitable than truce, found in the common ground between theology and science that is metaphysics. Here is theology offering its most to the discussion by being most theological. For decades we have heard that science can lend clarity to theology. With \u003ci\u003eNo God, No Science\u003c\/i\u003e, we have the metaphysical fluency of theology helping science be better science.”—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndrew Davison, Westcott House and the University of Cambridge\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“In an era in which it is widely assumed, both popularly and among many professional scientists and philosophers, that the arrival of the Darwinian pronounces the final ‘it is finished’ upon every metaphysical account of reality, theology often appears increasingly pressured by the need to defend its existence against this verdict at the court of scientific rationality. Michael Hanby’s eagerly-anticipated and monumental new book radically inverts this standard order with a bold and simple thesis: without God, there is no science; that no scientific account of the world can justify itself apart from God, without whom there is no ‘world’. A work of stunning erudition and insight that is not only a devastating critique of scientific and theological un-seriousness but a constructive argument for what difference this metaphysical vision makes to the way we live in the world. A profound – and profoundly human – book.”—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeter M. 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