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Preface viii <p>Acknowledgments xi</p> <p>Abbreviations xii</p> <p>Primary Sources and Translations xvi</p> <p>Introduction 1</p> <p><b>Part I In the Beginning 7</b></p> <p>1 Discourse on Method 9</p> <p>2 A Brief History of the Cosmos 49</p> <p><b>Part II The Eclipse of the Universe 105</b></p> <p>3 The Scientific and Theological Revolution 107</p> <p>4 Unnatural “Theology” 150</p> <p>5 Darwin the Theologian 186</p> <p>6 The Mystery of the Missing Organism 250</p> <p><b>Part III Creation Without Creationism 297</b></p> <p>7 Deus Creator Omnium 299</p> <p>8 What the World Is 334</p> <p>9 Saving the Appearances 375</p> <p>Epilogue: Evolution of the Last Men 416</p> <p>Index 422</p>

<p>?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.? (<i>Modern Theology</i>, 27 April 2015)</p> <p>?You can know "what" without knowing "how", but you can't know "how" without knowing "what" - my short summary of this wonderful book.? (<i>Every Good Path</i>, 27 July 2014)</p> <br /> ?Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty.? (<i>Choice</i>, 1 December 2013)</p>

<p><b>Michael Hanby</b> 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 <i>Augustine and Modernity</i> and numerous journal articles. He has taught previously at Baylor University and Villanova University.

<p>"There is something heroic about the scale on which Hanby has chosen to work, and the result is satisfyingly grand. At a time when tedious polemic has done so much to obscure the relation between the history of modern Western science and the history of theology, and done so much to confuse the questions that the science and theology do and (more importantly perhaps) do not share in common, this book is a very welcome burst of clarifying light."</br> <b><i>David Bentley Hart,</i></b><i></i> author of<i> The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth; The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss;</i> and<i> Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies</i> <p>"I strongly recommend this book to scientists who wish to see how robust science and Christian theology can relate in sound and appropriate ways not centered on conflict. Anyone seeking wisdom on how to secure the future of humanity in our technological age should consider the thesis of this book carefully."</br> <b><i>Paul S. Julienne,</i></b> retired Fellow, Joint Quantum Institute of the University of Maryland and NIST <p>"Michael Hanby charts the long decline since the High-Middle Ages in the meaning of God, contingency, and creation. This conceptual weakening resulted in the philosophically and theologically simplistic opposition between Paley's natural theology and Darwinism. Helping us retrace our steps, Hanby leads us from a natural theology based on a misplaced analogy between artifacts and organisms to a theology of nature based on respect for life's wonders, including the creativity of natural selection."</br> <b><i>David J. Depew,</i></b> University of Iowa and<b><i> Bruce H. Weber,</i></b> California State University Fullerton, and Bennington College <p>Are 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? <i>No God, No Science: Theology, Cosmology, Biology</i> presents a comprehensive work of philosophical theology whose overarching aim is to retrieve the Christian doctrine of creation ex <i>nihilo</i> from the distortions imposed upon it by positivist science and the Darwinian tradition of evolutionary biology. <p>Noted scholar Michael Hanby cogently argues that the Christian doctrine of creation is actually essential 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, <i>No God, No Science</i> 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.

<p>Michael Hanby charts the long decline since the High-Middle Ages in the meaning of God, contingency, and creation. This conceptual weakening resulted in the philosophically and theologically simplistic opposition between Paley’s natural theology and Darwinism.  Helping us retrace our steps, Hanby leads us from a natural theology based on a misplaced analogy between artifacts and organisms to a theology of nature based on respect for life’s wonders, including the creativity of natural selection.<br /><b>David J. Depew</b>, University of Iowa and Bruce H. Weber, California State University Fullerton, and Bennington College</p> <p>There is something heroic about the scale on which Hanby has chosen to work, and the result is satisfyingly grand.  At a time when tedious polemic has done so much to obscure the relation between the history of modern Western science and the history of theology, and done so much to confuse the questions that the science and theology do and (more importantly perhaps) do not share in common, this book is a very welcome burst of clarifying light.<br /><b>David Bentley Hart</b>, author of <i>The Beauty of the Infinite:  The Aesthetics of Christian Truth</i>; <i>The Experience of God:  Being, Consciousness, Bliss</i>;  and <i>Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies</i></p> <p>I strongly recommend this book to scientists who wish to see how robust science and Christian theology can relate in sound and appropriate ways not centered on conflict.  Anyone seeking wisdom on how to secure the future of humanity in our technological age should consider the thesis of this book carefully.<br /><b>Paul S. Julienne</b>, retired Fellow, Joint Quantum Institute of the University of Maryland and NIST.</p>

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