Abstract
This book is an encyclopedic survey of the science-religion field. Paul Kurtz is emeritus philosopher and author or editor of forty books. The articles are opinion pieces, some only four pages, many without references, originally published in Skeptical Inquirer and Free Inquiry. Essays range over a wide field subdivided into seven sections: Cosmology and God; Intelligent Design: Creationism vs. Science; Religion and Science in Conflict; Science and Ethics: Two Magisteria; The Scientific Investigation of Paranatural Claims; Scientific Explanations of Religious Belief; and Accommodating Science and Religion. Authors include such luminaries as Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Richard Feynman, Stephen Jay Gould, Steven Pinker, Richard Dawkins, Owen Gingerich, and Steven Weinberg.