“If you have questions about how to reconcile your faith with modern science, Herb Gruning is here to provide some valuable insight. David Reid, retired clergyperson, United Church of Canada He is even-handed, challenging the tendency of science to avoid areas of research which do not ‘sound scientific.’ Truly a better way to live in the present world.” He confronts inconsistencies in Scripture, showing how biblical literalism leaves one tied in knots. “Gruning continues his delightfully playful celebration of liberation from dated orthodoxies that have constrained his active mind not only in religion but also in science. Sure to ruffle the feathers of some from both sides, the examination focuses on how scientific paradigms fail to cohere with traditional theological doctrines and presents the potentially uncomfortable view that scientific revolutions might warrant a corresponding revolution for theology itself. The study then turns to theological implications of scientific theories, including relativity and quantum. ![]() It discuses topics from Jesus and family values, evangelists who arrive at your door, discrimination and racism, and the dark side for religion, to delicate balances impacting us and the world, climate change, the pandemic, and how ancient structures like Stonehenge and the pyramids could have been built for science. In this sequel to A User's Guide to Our Present World: What Everyone Should Know about Religion and Science, complexions of what religion and science look like today are investigated. "There is science and there is religion and never the twain shall meet." Is that to be the fate of these two disciplines? Having one foot in the religious world and the other in the scientific can be as precarious as attempting to remain astride two logs in a river.
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