Eminent lives in twentieth century science & religion

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Can science and religion coexist peacefully, even symbiotically? Or is conflict inevitable and are the enterprises mutually exclusive? In this volume an international team of distinguished scholars address these enduring yet urgent questions by examining the lives of eminent twentieth-century biologists, chemists and physicists whose careers were marked by the interaction of science and religion: Charles Coulson, Theodosius Dobzhansky, R. A. Fisher, Julian Huxley, Pascual Jordan, Ivan Pavlov, Michael Pupin, and E. O. Wilson. The team‘s rich empirical studies show a diversity of creative engagements between science and religion that defy efforts to set the two at odds.