SCIENCE AND RELIGION

This subject is never far beneath the surface in discussions of fundamentalist orientation. The following reading list is for those interested in gaining more understanding of this interesting debate.

  1. Noah’s Flood – The new scientific discoveries about the event that changed history; W. Ryan and W. Pitman; Simon and Shuster, 1998
  2. The Great Paleozoic Crisis-Life and Death in the Permian; D. H. Erwin; Columbia University Press, 1993
  3. Evolutionary Catastrophes – The Science of Mass Extinction; V. Courtillot; Columbia University Press, 1999
  4. Controversy – Catastrophism and Evolution – The Ongoing Debate; T. Palmer; Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 1999
  5. Geochronology and Thermochronology by the 40Ar/39Ar Method (Second Edition); Ian McDougall and T. Mark Harrison; Oxford University Press, 1999
  6. Radiogenic Isotope Geology; Alan P. Dicken; Cambridge University Press, 1995
  7. Principles of Isotope Geology(Second Edition); Gunter Faure; John Wiley and Sons, 1986
  8. The Anthropic Cosmological Principle; Barrow and Tipler; Oxford University Press 1986
  9. Science & Earth History, The Evolution/Creation Controversy; Arthur N. Strahler; Prometheus Books, 1987
  10. Abusing Science; Philip Ketcher; MIT Press ,1982
  11. Creation and Evolution, Myth or Reality?; Norman D. Newell; Praeger Special Studies; Praeger Scientific, 1985
  12. The Conscious Universe; Menas Kafatos, Robert Nadeau; Springer-Verlog; New York Press, 1990
  13. The Age of the Earth; G. Brent Dalrymple; Stanford University Press, 1991
  14. Cosmogenesis/The Growth of Order in the Universe; David Layzer; Oxford University Press, 1990
  15. The Hour of Our Delight, Cosmic Evolution, Order and Complexity; Hubert Reeves; W.H. Freeman, 1991
  16. Origins of Life; Freeman Dyson; Cambridge University Press, 1987
  17. Order Out of Chaos/Man’s New Dialogue with Nature; Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers; Bantam, 1984
  18. Science and Creationism, edited by Ashley Montage; Oxford University Press, 1984
  19. Higher Superstition; The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science, Paul R. Gross and Norman Levett; Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994
  20. Science & Anti-Science; Gerald Holton; Harvard University Press, 1993
  21. Noah’s Hood, The Genesis Story in Western Thought; Norman Cohn; Yale University Press, 1996
  22. A History of Religions Ideas, Volume 1, Mircea Eliade; University of Chicago Press, 1978
  23. Galileo; Stillman Drake; Oxford University Press, 1980, 1996
  24. The Crime of Galileo; Giorgio de Santillana; University of Chicago Press,1955; Midway Reprint, 1976
  25. The Babylonian Genesis; Alexander Heidel; University of Chicago Press, 1963
  26. Myth, Legend and Custom in The Old Testament, Volume 1 and Volume 2; Theodor H, Gastner; Harper and Row Publishers, 1975
  27. The Treasures of Darkness, A History of Mesopotamian Religion; Thorkeld Jacobsen; Yale University Press, 1976
  28. History Begins at Sumer; Samuel Noah Kramer; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981
  29. The Sumerians, Their History, Culture and Character; Samuel Noah Kramer; University of Chicago Press, 1963
  30. Ancient Mesopotamia; A. Leo Oppenheim; University of Chicago Press, 1977
  31. Patterns in Prehistory; Humankinds First Three Million Years, Third Edition; Robert J. Wenke; Oxford University Press, 1990
  32. The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man, An Essy on Speculative Thought in The Ancient Near East; Henri Frankfort et, al.; University of Chicago Press, 1977
  33. The Ancient Near East, Volume I; Edited by James B. Pritchard; Princeton University Press, 1958
  34. The Ancient Near East, Volume II; Edited by James B. Pritchard; Princeton University Press, 1975
  35. Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic., Essays in The History of the Religion of Israel; Frank Moore Cross; Harvard University Press, 1973
  36. The Western Intellectual Tradition; J. Bronowski and Bruce Mazlish; Harper and Row Publishers, 1975
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