Andrew Steane, Faithful to Science: The Role of Science in Religion, Oxford University Press, 2014, 255pp, £19.99, ISBN 9780198716044
Andrew Steane, Faithful to Science: The Role of Science in Religion, Oxford University Press, 2014, 255pp, £19.99, ISBN 9780198716044
Elly Vintiadis
ABSTRACT
Faithful to Science is a book written by a professor of physics at Oxford University who is also a devout Christian. The aim of this book, as the author describes it in the introduction, is to show that scientific study of the natural world and mainstream theistic belief are at ease with each other. It is a main contention of the book that the question of the conflict between science and religion is ill-posed because, properly understood, theism incorporates science since it too, just like science, requires people to seek the truth and to think critically. In order to go about showing why this
is so, Steane embarks on showing what theism is and how it offers an explanation of the world and life of which science is a part.
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